The Arabian Horse. His Country and People with Portraits of Typical or Famous Arabians

The Arabian Horse. His Country and People with Portraits of Typical or Famous Arabians and Other Illustrations Also A Map of the Country of the Arabian Horses, and a Descriptive Glossary of Arabic Words and Proper Names.

Author: Tweedie, Major General W.

Folio.(9.25" x 12.25") 1894. Tweedie, Major General W. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons. Finely bound in green/teal full morocco with extensive gilt. The very ornate spine, has 5 highly decorative, identical, gilt stamped compartments and the bold title, THE ARABIAN HORSE, in the 2nd compartment. In the middle of the beautiful front cover is a "gilt stamped vignette head of author's horse al-Rashid" inside a 3.625" diameter circle. A gilt dentelle borders all 4 edges a quarter of an inch from the edge. The identical dentelle is on the turn-ins on the front and back covers' pastedowns. The covers' edges also have gilt dentelles. Original front cover bound in towards rear. Marbled endpapers. Color and B&W Illustrations, colored frontispiece. Title page in black and red with gold Arabic illustration. Oversized folding map in pocket to rear pastedown. Small chips lacking from bottom of half-title page, tiny closed tears to a couple of fore-edges of pages. Nine full page engravings, some colored, with dozens of in-text illustrations, charts, and tables. A comprehensive look at Arabian Horses, beautifully bound.

From Wiki: William Tweedie CSI (1836–1914) was a soldier, diplomat and author, who served in India, Abyssinia and Turkish Arabia. The son of Reverend and author William King Tweedie, he is also known as the author of a book on the Arabian Horse. At the outbreak of the Second Anglo-Afghan War, Tweedie was appointed as Political Staff Officer to Major-General Robert Bright, before being appointed as Political Agent 1st Class Eastern States (Rajputana). Tweedie was then appointed as Resident of Turkish Arabia in Baghdad in 1881, a role which involved inspecting all aspects of local life, including the trade in Arabian horses which he was especially interested in. He was named as a Companion of the Order of the Star of India in March 1885. Tweedie had his treatise on Arabian horses, 'The Arabian Horse, His Country and His People', published in 1894 by William Blackwood & Sons.

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