Méthode et Invention Nouvelle de Dresser les Chevaux

by William Cavendish Newcastle, Gaspard de Saunier, Abraham van

$12,000 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

Bound to style in eighteenth-century half leather over eighteenth-century comb marbled paper-covered boards and marbled endpapers Deluxe large paper issue of Cavendish's classic 1737 treatise on equestrianism, with 43 splendid double-page engravings: The illustrations are among the most beautiful to ever grace equestrian literature. Ramsay Though considered a country of horse lovers, England only produced one early master of classical riding: William

• Binding: Leather

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