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FRANCINI, Horace de. Hippiatrique...Où est traicté des causes des maladies du cheval tant interieures qu'exterieures: le moyen de le guarir d'icelles; ensemble de la bonté & qualité d'iceluy. Paris: Marc Orry, 1607.
Title with woodcut device, woodcut initial letters. (Slight old dampstaining to upper and lower margins.)
Bound with: Laurent Rusé. La Mareschalerie...où sont contenuz remedes tres-singuliers contre les maladies des chevaux: avec plusiers figures de mors. Paris: Adrian Perier, 1610.
Title with woodcut device, 60 full-page woodcut illustrations of bits, full-page woodcut illustration of a horse on verso of final leaf. (Slight old dampstain to top outer corner of last 24 leaves.)
2 works in 1 volume, 4° (215 x 150mm.). Old mottled sheep, spine with morocco lettering-pieces (lower corners rubbed, spine worn). Provenance: F.Z.L.W (lettering label at base of spine); Fürstlich Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg'sche Hofbibliothek (stamp on title).
FIRST EDITION of Francini's work, adapted from the second part of Ruini's Dell'anatomia et dell'infirmita del cavallo (Bologna 1598). Francini was equerry to Henri IV and the nephew of Ruini, in whose household he lived from the age of 12. Menessier de la Lance pp. 507-508.
Rusé (or Rusio) lived towards the end of the 13th century, and was a marshall in Rome, in the service of the Cardinal des Ursins, to whom the first editions of his work (in Latin) were dedicated. The work was widely circulated in Italy in manuscript form before its first printing at the end of the 15th century. The first French edition was published in 1533. Menessier de la Lance pp. 466-470.
Title with woodcut device, woodcut initial letters. (Slight old dampstaining to upper and lower margins.)
Bound with: Laurent Rusé. La Mareschalerie...où sont contenuz remedes tres-singuliers contre les maladies des chevaux: avec plusiers figures de mors. Paris: Adrian Perier, 1610.
Title with woodcut device, 60 full-page woodcut illustrations of bits, full-page woodcut illustration of a horse on verso of final leaf. (Slight old dampstain to top outer corner of last 24 leaves.)
2 works in 1 volume, 4° (215 x 150mm.). Old mottled sheep, spine with morocco lettering-pieces (lower corners rubbed, spine worn). Provenance: F.Z.L.W (lettering label at base of spine); Fürstlich Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg'sche Hofbibliothek (stamp on title).
FIRST EDITION of Francini's work, adapted from the second part of Ruini's Dell'anatomia et dell'infirmita del cavallo (Bologna 1598). Francini was equerry to Henri IV and the nephew of Ruini, in whose household he lived from the age of 12. Menessier de la Lance pp. 507-508.
Rusé (or Rusio) lived towards the end of the 13th century, and was a marshall in Rome, in the service of the Cardinal des Ursins, to whom the first editions of his work (in Latin) were dedicated. The work was widely circulated in Italy in manuscript form before its first printing at the end of the 15th century. The first French edition was published in 1533. Menessier de la Lance pp. 466-470.