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CAVENDISH (WILLIAM, Duke of Newcastle) A General System of Horsemanship in All it's Branches, J. Brindley, 1743
14 November 2023, 14:00 GMT
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CAVENDISH (WILLIAM, Duke of Newcastle)
A General System of Horsemanship in All it's Branches, 2 vol. bound in 1, first edition in English, half-title, additional double-page engraved title in French (imprint Antwerp, Jacques van Meurs, 1658), 42 double-page engraved equestrian plates (plate 31 loose, perhaps inserted, small surface smudge on plate 11), 20 engraved anatomical, equipment and veterinary plates in part 2 (12 printed in bistre, 2 double-page), engraved vignettes and historiated initials, woodcut diagrams in the text, preface leaf (pages 3-4) misbound in vol. 2, some light browning, additional ink numeral on a few plates in second volume, nineteenth century calf, rubbed, some scuffs and ink stains to lower cover [Nissen ZBI 849; Podeschi 49], folio (460 x 280mm.), J. Brindley, 1743
Footnotes
First edition in English of the Duke of Newcastle's important treatise on horsemanship. The second volume comprises "The Perfect Knowledge of Horses", the first appearance in English of Gaspard de Saunier's Parfaite connoissance des chevaux.
Provenance: D. Mahon, 1 Jan. 1826, ownership inscription on the half-title.

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