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LA NOUE, Pierre de (fl. c. 1620). La cavalerie françoise et italienne, ou L'art de bien dresser les chevaux, selon les preceptes des bonnes écoles des deux nations. Lyons: Claude Morillon, 1620.
2° (364 x 243mm). Engraved title by Jacob van der Heyden and 42 full-page engraved illustrations. Woodcut headpieces and initials. With preliminary blank. (Some light spotting and marking, light dampstaining affecting upper parts of leaves, small paper-flaws affecting text on T6 and V2, the latter neatly repaired.) Contemporary semi-flexible vellum (a little marked, covers bowed, cracking on upper joint and spine causing small losses). Provenance: W. Raby (early inscription on title) -- early pressmarks on endpapers and some marginal pen-trials -- William Charles de Meuron, 7th Earl Fitzwilliam (1872-1943, bookplate; his sale, Sotheby's, 1 March 1948, lot 117).
FIRST EDITION, [?]FIRST ISSUE OF LA NOUE'S RARE WORK. La cavalerie françoise et italienne was the first of a projected quartet of works on horses and horsemanship by Pierre de La Noue, of which only the first three appear to have been published. The work is notable for the sections which relate to the training of horses for military purposes and particularly teaching them not to fear arms and familiarising them with the noise and smoke of gunfire. Mennessier de la Lance also notes that La Noue describes the use of either one or two pillars in dressage, some three years before Pluvinel, who is generally credited with the first publication of this technique. The engraved title of the first edition is known in two states: the first with the name of Jacob van der Heyden and dated 1620 (as here), and a second, presumably later, with the name of Claude Morillon and the date 1621. Brunet III, 824; Huth p. 18; Mennessier de la Lance II, p.45.
2° (364 x 243mm). Engraved title by Jacob van der Heyden and 42 full-page engraved illustrations. Woodcut headpieces and initials. With preliminary blank. (Some light spotting and marking, light dampstaining affecting upper parts of leaves, small paper-flaws affecting text on T6 and V2, the latter neatly repaired.) Contemporary semi-flexible vellum (a little marked, covers bowed, cracking on upper joint and spine causing small losses). Provenance: W. Raby (early inscription on title) -- early pressmarks on endpapers and some marginal pen-trials -- William Charles de Meuron, 7th Earl Fitzwilliam (1872-1943, bookplate; his sale, Sotheby's, 1 March 1948, lot 117).
FIRST EDITION, [?]FIRST ISSUE OF LA NOUE'S RARE WORK. La cavalerie françoise et italienne was the first of a projected quartet of works on horses and horsemanship by Pierre de La Noue, of which only the first three appear to have been published. The work is notable for the sections which relate to the training of horses for military purposes and particularly teaching them not to fear arms and familiarising them with the noise and smoke of gunfire. Mennessier de la Lance also notes that La Noue describes the use of either one or two pillars in dressage, some three years before Pluvinel, who is generally credited with the first publication of this technique. The engraved title of the first edition is known in two states: the first with the name of Jacob van der Heyden and dated 1620 (as here), and a second, presumably later, with the name of Claude Morillon and the date 1621. Brunet III, 824; Huth p. 18; Mennessier de la Lance II, p.45.
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