Lot 290
Cavendish (William, Duke of Newcastle) A General System of Horsemanship in All it's Branches, 2 vol., first edition in English, J. Brindley, 1743.
Hammer Price: £2,800
Description
⁂ Please note the description of this lot has changed ⁂ Cavendish (William, Duke of Newcastle) A General System of Horsemanship in All it's Branches, 2 vol., first edition in English, half-title bound after additional double-page engraved title in French (imprint Antwerp, Jacques van Meurs, 1658), 42 double-page engraved equestrian plates in vol.1, 20 engraved anatomical, equipment and veterinary plates in vol. 2 (12 printed in bistre, 2 double-page), engraved vignettes and historiated initials, woodcut diagrams in text, all pages and plates guarded, P2-R2 misbound at end vol. 1., contemporary sprinkled calf, gilt, a little rubbed and scuffed, spines with red and green morocco labels but with some parts of backstrips separating, folio, J. Brindley, 1743.
⁂ Good, clean copy of this major work 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.
Description
⁂ Please note the description of this lot has changed ⁂ Cavendish (William, Duke of Newcastle) A General System of Horsemanship in All it's Branches, 2 vol., first edition in English, half-title bound after additional double-page engraved title in French (imprint Antwerp, Jacques van Meurs, 1658), 42 double-page engraved equestrian plates in vol.1, 20 engraved anatomical, equipment and veterinary plates in vol. 2 (12 printed in bistre, 2 double-page), engraved vignettes and historiated initials, woodcut diagrams in text, all pages and plates guarded, P2-R2 misbound at end vol. 1., contemporary sprinkled calf, gilt, a little rubbed and scuffed, spines with red and green morocco labels but with some parts of backstrips separating, folio, J. Brindley, 1743.
⁂ Good, clean copy of this major work 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.
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