Lot 204
Horses.- Cavendish (William, Duke of Newcastle) A New Method, and Extraordinary Invention, to Dress Horses, and Work them according to Nature, first English edition, 1667.
Hammer Price: £350
Description
Horses.- Cavendish (William, Duke of Newcastle) A New Method, and Extraordinary Invention, to Dress Horses, and Work them according to Nature, first English edition, large paper copy, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, light damp-staining to head, title a little spotted and soiled with chipping to upper corner and fore-margin, bookplate to pastedown, contemporary calf, rebacked, upper cover detached, lower joint cracked, rubbed, [WIng N887], folio, by Tho. Milbourn, 1667.
⁂ Large paper copy of Cavendish's second work on horses, the first printing of his original English text. This copy with the later, separately-numbered pages reading 001-008, fewer than those called for by ESTC however agreeing with other copies we have traced and seemingly complete.
Provenance: Victor Albert George Child Villiers, Earl of Jersey, Osterley Park (bookplate).
Description
Horses.- Cavendish (William, Duke of Newcastle) A New Method, and Extraordinary Invention, to Dress Horses, and Work them according to Nature, first English edition, large paper copy, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, light damp-staining to head, title a little spotted and soiled with chipping to upper corner and fore-margin, bookplate to pastedown, contemporary calf, rebacked, upper cover detached, lower joint cracked, rubbed, [WIng N887], folio, by Tho. Milbourn, 1667.
⁂ Large paper copy of Cavendish's second work on horses, the first printing of his original English text. This copy with the later, separately-numbered pages reading 001-008, fewer than those called for by ESTC however agreeing with other copies we have traced and seemingly complete.
Provenance: Victor Albert George Child Villiers, Earl of Jersey, Osterley Park (bookplate).
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