Mr. Rarey's Practical System of Horse Taming [caption title]

Belfast, (Ireland): Belfast "News-Letter" Office, 1860. First edition. 4to. (4) pp. [printed double-column]. A "selection of curtailed extracts from the leading newspapers of Great Britain and France," showing "the universal verdict of approval with which the excellence and humanity of Mr. Rarey's system of training horses has been greeted by the public press and the first horsemen of this and every other country he has yet visited." John S. Rarey (1827-1866) was a native of Ohio and an important 19th-century horse whisperer; his book on horse taming went through many editions, in Great Britain, Europe, and the United States, during the late 1850s. OCLC locates one copy of this advertisement (Ohio Historical Society). Very good. Central horizontal fold (breaks at both ends). (#6826). (Inventory #: 59548)