Méthode et Invention Nouvelle de Dresser les Chevaux

by William Cavendish Newcastle, Gaspard de Saunier, Abraham van

$16,000 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

Contemporary brown full morocco paneled blind with gilt filets on board edges and gilt dentelles, seven raised bands forming eight compartments on a richly gilt spine, with gilt-lettered red morocco titling-pieces in second and third compartments and gilt foliate tooling in rest, marbled endpapers, on laid paper, all edges gilt Cavendish's classic 1737 treatise on equestrianism, with 43 splendid double-page engravings: The illustrations are among the most beautiful to ever grace

• Binding: Leather

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