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CAVENDISH, William (Duke of Newcastle, 1592-1676). A General System of Horsemanship. London: J. Brindley, 1743.
2 volumes in one, 2° (460 x 293mm). Half-title, double-page engraved title in French (imprint, Antwerp: Jacques van Meurs, dated 1658), 42 double-page engraved plates numbered 1-42, on guards, 20 anatomical plates of horses (12 printed in sepia), 7 engraved vignettes (one in sepia), and 5 engraved historiated initials (one in sepia), woodcut text diagrams. (Half-title creased, some browning, occasional light spotting in part two.) Contemporary speckled calf gilt (worn). Provenance: Sir Abraham Hume (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of the comprehensive book on horses and horsemanship by the Duke of Newcastle; part II comprises the first edition in English of Jean and Gaspard de Saunier's Parfaite connoissance des Chevaux. Mennessier de la Lance II, p.250.
2 volumes in one, 2° (460 x 293mm). Half-title, double-page engraved title in French (imprint, Antwerp: Jacques van Meurs, dated 1658), 42 double-page engraved plates numbered 1-42, on guards, 20 anatomical plates of horses (12 printed in sepia), 7 engraved vignettes (one in sepia), and 5 engraved historiated initials (one in sepia), woodcut text diagrams. (Half-title creased, some browning, occasional light spotting in part two.) Contemporary speckled calf gilt (worn). Provenance: Sir Abraham Hume (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of the comprehensive book on horses and horsemanship by the Duke of Newcastle; part II comprises the first edition in English of Jean and Gaspard de Saunier's Parfaite connoissance des Chevaux. Mennessier de la Lance II, p.250.