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PLUVINEL, Antoine de (1555-1620). Maneige royal ou lon peut remarquer le defaut et la perfection du cheualier, en tous les exercices de cet art, Paris: for Crispian de Pas. Et se vendent chez Guillaume Le Noir, 1623.
Oblong 2° (368 x 495mm). Engraved arms of France and Navarre on printed title, additional engraved title, portrait of Louis XIII, a small portrait of the author by Simon de Pas flanked by letterpress gratulatory poems, 59 engraved plates (only) after letters. (Lacks one preliminary leaf, the letter of C. de Pas to the King and the Privilege, portrait of Louis XIII cut round and mounted, 3 preliminary leaves bound after the plates and before the text, printed title cut close at top margin, all plates mounted, some leaves of text creased, a few light stains and fingermarks.) Mid-17th-century French mottled calf, large gilt arms of Nicolas Fouquet on sides [Olivier 1398, fer 1], his small arms and interlaced Greek 'phis' in alternate panels of spine [Olivier 1398, fers 3 & 4], double gilt fillet round sides (rubbed, corners worn).
FIRST EDITION. Antoine de Pluvinel, passionate about horses and equitation from an early age, went in his adolescence to Italy where he frequented the most illustrious academies and was regarded as the finest riding master of his day. He was eventually brought back to France by the Master of Horse of Charles IX and served him and his brother Henri III who showered him with honours. He made the transition to the Bourbon kings with ease and in 1594 opened his Academy which taught not only horsemanship but also mathematics, painting, music and poetry. Mennessier de la Lance, p.328, mentions the problems with the number of plates in this work, informing us that J.B. Huzard's copy contained 65 while the Mellon copy contained 61; Brunet calls for 63. Nicolas Fouquet (1615-1680) rose to become superintendant of the royal finances. He was hated by Colbert who so inflamed Louis XIV's jealousy of Fouquet's magnificent château at Vaux that the latter was disgraced in 1661, finally dying in prison in 1680. Brunet IV, 748; Mennessier de las Lance II, pp.325-28; Mellon/Podeschi pp.27-28.
Oblong 2° (368 x 495mm). Engraved arms of France and Navarre on printed title, additional engraved title, portrait of Louis XIII, a small portrait of the author by Simon de Pas flanked by letterpress gratulatory poems, 59 engraved plates (only) after letters. (Lacks one preliminary leaf, the letter of C. de Pas to the King and the Privilege, portrait of Louis XIII cut round and mounted, 3 preliminary leaves bound after the plates and before the text, printed title cut close at top margin, all plates mounted, some leaves of text creased, a few light stains and fingermarks.) Mid-17th-century French mottled calf, large gilt arms of Nicolas Fouquet on sides [Olivier 1398, fer 1], his small arms and interlaced Greek 'phis' in alternate panels of spine [Olivier 1398, fers 3 & 4], double gilt fillet round sides (rubbed, corners worn).
FIRST EDITION. Antoine de Pluvinel, passionate about horses and equitation from an early age, went in his adolescence to Italy where he frequented the most illustrious academies and was regarded as the finest riding master of his day. He was eventually brought back to France by the Master of Horse of Charles IX and served him and his brother Henri III who showered him with honours. He made the transition to the Bourbon kings with ease and in 1594 opened his Academy which taught not only horsemanship but also mathematics, painting, music and poetry. Mennessier de la Lance, p.328, mentions the problems with the number of plates in this work, informing us that J.B. Huzard's copy contained 65 while the Mellon copy contained 61; Brunet calls for 63. Nicolas Fouquet (1615-1680) rose to become superintendant of the royal finances. He was hated by Colbert who so inflamed Louis XIV's jealousy of Fouquet's magnificent château at Vaux that the latter was disgraced in 1661, finally dying in prison in 1680. Brunet IV, 748; Mennessier de las Lance II, pp.325-28; Mellon/Podeschi pp.27-28.
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