THE HORSE IN MOTION as shown by instantaneous photography WITH A STUDY ON ANIMAL MECHANICS founded on the anatomy and the revelations of the camera IN WHICH IS DEMONSTRATED THE THEORY OF QUADRUPEDAL LOCOMOTION by Stillman, J. D. B.; Eadweard Muybridge (photographer); (executed and published under the auspices of Leland Stanford) - 1882

Hardback. New.

Hardback. New.

Boston: James R. Osgood. Good with no dust jacket; Frontispiece and title page professionally . repaired at margins, gift inscription on front flyleaf, cup ring and white . paint stains on title page, pages toned.. 1882. Hardcover. Nicely rebound in brown cloth with gilt-stamped leather spine labels. Top edges gilt. 127 pages of text and 107 plates, including five heliotypes and 9 color plates illustrating equine anatomy. Preface by Leland Stanford. Photo of book before rebinding laid in. An important book in both the history of photography and equine literature with a fascinating back story about how it was researched and written. Railroad baron, California Governor, and horse racing mogul Leland Stanford (he also bankrolled the founding of Stanford University) had a wager with some of his horse racing buddies about whether all four hooves left the ground at a point during a horse's trot. Stanford hired antiquarian bookseller-turned-photographer Eadweard Muybridge to provide… Read More

James R. Osgood, 1882-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Rebound in fine modern goatskin, over marbled boards. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. All edges gilt. Scattered spotting. Small tear to FEP. [1], 127 p., 107 leaves of plates, with nine chromolithographs, five heliotypes, and ninety-eight lithographs. Bookplate. An important book showing Muybridge's famous stop motion photographs of Leland Stanford's horse, Occident. Muybridge provided some of the world's first photographs of motion. Stillman was Stanford's personal physician. Boni, p 175; Gernsheim, p 437; Wood, p 583; Mellon & Podeschi 222. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.

Boston: James R. Osgood And Company, 1882. Book. Illus. by Eadweard Muybridge - Photographer. Very Good +. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Original Brown Cloth With Gilt Pictorial Stamping. The Book Has Bumped Corners..

Top edge gilt. Bright gilt decorated cover & spine. 107 plates including five helioptypes; some drawings in color of horse anatomy & ca 90 composite plates of drawings from original photos by Muybridge of horses & other mammals running, walking, trotting. Tissue guards. Tiny bit of rubbing end of spine & cover. First Edition.