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SAUNIER, Jean de. La parfaite connoissance des chevaux, leur anatomie, leurs bonnes et mauvaises qualitez, leurs maladies et les remedes qui y conviennent. Edited by Gaspard de Saunier (1663-1748). The Hague: printed for the author and sold by Adrien Moetjens, 1734.
2° (365 x 245mm). Title printed in red and black with engraved vignette by D. Coster. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Gaspard de Saunier by and after Coster and 61 plates by and after François Morellon La Cave, François van Bleyswyck, and Ernst Ludwig Creite, engraved headpiece, woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces. (Frontispiece with an old repaired tear.) Contemporary red morocco, spine with raised bands gilt in compartments, green morocco label, the sides with a gilt floral border and centred with the cipher of Paul I, gilt edges, marbled endpaper (light wear at corners, a few small holes at the joints). Provenance: Paul I of Russia (1754-1801; binding, shelf-mark 'N.7') -- Erasmushaus, Basel.
FIRST EDITION. PAUL I'S COPY IN RED MOROCCO. A superb example of this richly illustrated work of equine anatomy and hippiatrics, written by the inspector of the King of France's High Stable, and edited by his son, who was riding-master at the Academy of the University of Leiden. It was a popular work which was later translated into German (Glogau: 1767) and into English as Guide to the Perfect Knowledge of Horses (London: 1769). Although Mennessier de la Lance and Nissen both call for 6 unpaginated preliminary leaves, this copy appears to be complete with 4, signed [*]1-2*2. Brunet V, 149; Cohen-De Ricci 940; Huth, p.31; Mennessier de la Lance 490; NLM/Blake p. 402; Nissen ZBI 3592.
2° (365 x 245mm). Title printed in red and black with engraved vignette by D. Coster. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Gaspard de Saunier by and after Coster and 61 plates by and after François Morellon La Cave, François van Bleyswyck, and Ernst Ludwig Creite, engraved headpiece, woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces. (Frontispiece with an old repaired tear.) Contemporary red morocco, spine with raised bands gilt in compartments, green morocco label, the sides with a gilt floral border and centred with the cipher of Paul I, gilt edges, marbled endpaper (light wear at corners, a few small holes at the joints). Provenance: Paul I of Russia (1754-1801; binding, shelf-mark 'N.7') -- Erasmushaus, Basel.
FIRST EDITION. PAUL I'S COPY IN RED MOROCCO. A superb example of this richly illustrated work of equine anatomy and hippiatrics, written by the inspector of the King of France's High Stable, and edited by his son, who was riding-master at the Academy of the University of Leiden. It was a popular work which was later translated into German (Glogau: 1767) and into English as Guide to the Perfect Knowledge of Horses (London: 1769). Although Mennessier de la Lance and Nissen both call for 6 unpaginated preliminary leaves, this copy appears to be complete with 4, signed [*]1-2*2. Brunet V, 149; Cohen-De Ricci 940; Huth, p.31; Mennessier de la Lance 490; NLM/Blake p. 402; Nissen ZBI 3592.
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