History in Brief of "leopold" and "linden", General Grant's Arabian Stallions. (lacking Title Page and Two Images as in Most Surviving copies)
[Printed for the Author by J.B. Lippincott Co.Philadelphia, 1185]. Quarto. Item #031960
Inscribed by Huntington to his fellow devotee of fine Arabians, F.A.Wier.This copy lacks the title page and the images of Linden and Leopard. It does however have the images, with tissue guards, of "General Beale," andf "Hegira," (the sons fo Linden and Leopard), and "Old Henry Clay" bred by Randolf Huntington). 66 pages of text complete. The sultan of Turkey wanted to give one of his finest horses to Grant but the former President wanted to decline until he was told it would be a terrible insult to the Sultan. The fine stallions were Linden and Leopold. Huntington was a major horse breeder whose ambition was to create "The National Thoroughbred Trotting-Bred Horse of America." He wanted to breed Grant's stallions with the Henry Clay Mares. The celebrated stallion "Henry Clay" was the result. The volume had already becomre rare when in 1954 the Illinois Historical Society purchased their copy.
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