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NEWCASTLE, Wiliiam Cavendish, Duke of (1592-1676). Methode et invention nouvelle de dresser les chevaux, Antwerp: Jacques van Meurs, 1657 [changed by hand to 1658].
2° (459 x 303mm). Double-page additional engraved title and 42 double-page plates by Clouwet, Lommelin and others after Abraham van Diepenbeke, woodcut diagrams, initials and tailpieces. (Browned throughout, crudely repaired tear to engraved title.) Contemporary mottled calf (rebacked, corners repaired, hinges scuffed). Provenance: Earl Fitzwilliam (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION, second issue, of Newcastle's splendid book. Translated from his manuscript in English, it illustrates the riding school which, in spite of the loss of a vast fortune in England during the Civil War, he managed to build up at Antwerp where he was residing as an exile from the Commonwealth. Although showered with honours by Charles II at the Restoration, he retired to his estates in Derbyshire and devoted himself to literature, the breeding of horses and equitation. His manège near Bolsover still exists. Mellon/Podeschi 26; Mennessier de la Lance, pp.246-47: 'rarissime'.
2° (459 x 303mm). Double-page additional engraved title and 42 double-page plates by Clouwet, Lommelin and others after Abraham van Diepenbeke, woodcut diagrams, initials and tailpieces. (Browned throughout, crudely repaired tear to engraved title.) Contemporary mottled calf (rebacked, corners repaired, hinges scuffed). Provenance: Earl Fitzwilliam (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION, second issue, of Newcastle's splendid book. Translated from his manuscript in English, it illustrates the riding school which, in spite of the loss of a vast fortune in England during the Civil War, he managed to build up at Antwerp where he was residing as an exile from the Commonwealth. Although showered with honours by Charles II at the Restoration, he retired to his estates in Derbyshire and devoted himself to literature, the breeding of horses and equitation. His manège near Bolsover still exists. Mellon/Podeschi 26; Mennessier de la Lance, pp.246-47: 'rarissime'.
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