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MENOU, René de (1578-1651). La pratique du caualier, ou l'exercice de monter a cheual. Qui enseigne la methode de reduire les cheuaux dans l'obeïssance des plus beaux airs & maneiges, Paris: Guillaume Loison & Jean Baptiste Loison, 1651.
4° (247 x 160mm). Additional engraved title, portrait of the author and 4 double-page plates. (Several quires browned, small wormhole in lower blank margins as far as L3.) Contemporary French red morocco, spine gilt in compartments, 2 borders à la Du Seuil round sides, the inner one with decorative cornerpieces, sides with a semé of gilt fleurs-de-lys, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Provenance: J.B. Huzard (griffe on title-verso; his remarkable library of more than 42,000 books, one of the finest ever assembled, was sold in Paris in 1842) -- Mornay-Soult (circular bookplate) -- Bulletin Morgand (pencilled number, 26165, on an endpaper) -- Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, Durdans (1847-1929, booklabels; his sale, Sotheby's, 26 June 1933, lot 894).
Probably the eighth edition of this fine livre de manège by the favourite pupil of Antoine de Pluvinel whose lessons he put into order and published (see lot 543). Menou who was Master of Horse under Henri IV and Louis XIII was the guardian of the Duc de Mayenne and became a member of the Privy Council and the Council of State. Mennessier de la Lance p.186.
4° (247 x 160mm). Additional engraved title, portrait of the author and 4 double-page plates. (Several quires browned, small wormhole in lower blank margins as far as L3.) Contemporary French red morocco, spine gilt in compartments, 2 borders à la Du Seuil round sides, the inner one with decorative cornerpieces, sides with a semé of gilt fleurs-de-lys, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Provenance: J.B. Huzard (griffe on title-verso; his remarkable library of more than 42,000 books, one of the finest ever assembled, was sold in Paris in 1842) -- Mornay-Soult (circular bookplate) -- Bulletin Morgand (pencilled number, 26165, on an endpaper) -- Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, Durdans (1847-1929, booklabels; his sale, Sotheby's, 26 June 1933, lot 894).
Probably the eighth edition of this fine livre de manège by the favourite pupil of Antoine de Pluvinel whose lessons he put into order and published (see lot 543). Menou who was Master of Horse under Henri IV and Louis XIII was the guardian of the Duc de Mayenne and became a member of the Privy Council and the Council of State. Mennessier de la Lance p.186.
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