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James, Jeremy The Byerley Turk
Ludlow, Shropshire Merlin Unwin 2005 1873674767 / 9781873674765 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Fine
A Fine copy apart from a very faint trace of a pencilled erasure to half title page with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 367 pages. Map endpapers. 14 illustrations. In 1678, a beautiful mahogany bay Karaman colt is foaled in a stable on a feudal holding in the Balkans, it is no ordinary colt, it is a colt with a destiny - destined to become the magnificent Byerley Turk, the first Foundation Sire of the thoroughbred line. From his early days the young horse is hard-schooled in the disciplines of war, and in 1683, in diamond and ruby-studded harness in the ranks of the glittering Ottoman sipahi, he fights as a charger at the Siege of Vienna. Seized as an exotic prize from the Siege of Buda three years later, he is ridden across Europe to the Royal Barracks of King James II in England, where he is acquired in 1687 by Captain Robert Byerley. After two years of bitter campaigning in Ireland he is shipped back to England, wher his owner, now Colonel of his regiment, retires him to Goldsborough Hall in Yorkshire, wher he is put to stud, until his death in 1703 aged 25. **** NOT EX LIB **** **** A HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.8 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST ****
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40.00 GBP
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