[ARABIAN HORSE BREEDING IN NORTH AMERICA] History in brief Leopard and Linden, General Grant's Arabian stallions, presented to him by the Sultan of Turkey in 1879, also their sons Generale Beale and Hegira, and Islam...

RANDOLPH HUNTINGTON., J. B. Lippincott Company, [USA], 1885. [ARABIAN HORSE BREED IN NORTH AMERICA - STALLIONS PRESENTED BY OTTOMAN SULTAN ABDULHAMID II] History in brief Leopard and Linden, General Grant's Arabian stallions, presented to him by the Sultan of Turkey in 1879, also their sons Generale Beale and Hegira, and Islam, bred by Randolph Huntington, also reference to the celebrated stallion Henry Clay. Original dark green cloth bdg. Brief title and "Stirps Arabica Vicit" with a saber and crescent moon gilded on the front board. A very good copy. 4to. (30 x 24 cm). In English. 66 p., 5 engraved plates. First and only edition of this handsome and illustrated book of the first Arabian horses presented by Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamid II, bred by Huntington in North America.Arabian horse breeding in North America properly began with the world tour taken by General Ulysses S. Grant after he served as president of America, it is that in March of 1878 the General and his son Jesse arrived