The American Card Player: Containing Clear and Comprehensive Directions
Smithsonian Institution Libraries Gift of DR. EDGAR H. HEMMER G-Q OD BOO KS. Hillgrove's Ball Room Guide, and Complete Practical Danoingr Master. Containing a Plain Treatise on Etiquette and Deportment at Balls and Parties, with Valuable Hints in Dress and the Toilet, together with full explanations and descriptions of the Eudi- ments, Terms, Figures, and Steps used in Dancing, including Clear and Precise Instructions how to Dance all kinds of Quadrilles, Waltzes, Polkas, Redowas, Reels, Round, Plain and Fancy Dances, so that any person may learn them without the aid of a Teacher ; to which is added Easy Direc- tions for Calling out the Figures of eyery Dance, and the amount of Music required for each. The whole illustrated with one hundred and seventy- six descriptive engravings and diagrams, hj Thomas Hillgrove, Professor of Dancing. 237 pages, bound in cloth, with gilt side and back— $1 .00. Bound in boards, with cloth back -—.. 75 cts. Rarey & Knowlson's Complete Horse Tamer and JFarrier, comprising the whole Theory of Taming or Breaking the Horse, by a New and Improved Method, as practiced with great success in the Uni- ted States, and in all the Countries of Europe, by J. S. Rarey, containing Rules for selecting a good Horse, -for Feeding Horses, etc. Also, The Com- plete Farrier ; or. Horse Doctor ; a Guide for the Treatment of Horses in all Diseases to which that noble animal is liable, being the result of fifty years' extensive practice of the author, by John C. Knowlson, during hia life, an English Farrier of high popularity, containing the latest discover- ies in the cure of Spavin.
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