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SAUNIER, J. and Gaspard de (1663-1748). La parfaite connoissance des chevaux, leur anatomie, leur bonnes et mauvaise qualitez, leurs maladies et les remèdes qui y convienent. The Hague: Adrien Moetjens, for the author, 1734.
2° (392 x 250mm). Title printed in red and black with engraved vignette by D. Coster, engraved frontispiece portrait of Gaspard de Saunier by Coster, engraved headpiece and 61 plates by von Bleyswyck, La Cave, and Creite. (Some light spotting, plates generally clean, occasional light browning.) 18th-century English calf, gilt spine, red sprinkled edges (rather worn, front cover nearly detached). Provenance: 18th-century purchase note with price 12s -- William Charles de Meuron, 7th Earl Fitzwilliam (1872-1943, bookplate; by descent to:) -- William Henry Lawrence Peter, 8th Earl Fitzwilliam (1910-1948, his sale, Sotheby's, 26 April 1948, lot 662).
FIRST EDITION of this work on equine anatomy and disease by one of the best known riding masters of his day, the French equerry Gaspard de Saunier. The fine plates of horse anatomy, while claiming to be drawn from nature, are derived from those by Ruini. Brunet V, 149; Huth, p.31; Mennessier de la Lance, 490; Nissen 3592 (calling for 12, not 10, preliminary pages).
2° (392 x 250mm). Title printed in red and black with engraved vignette by D. Coster, engraved frontispiece portrait of Gaspard de Saunier by Coster, engraved headpiece and 61 plates by von Bleyswyck, La Cave, and Creite. (Some light spotting, plates generally clean, occasional light browning.) 18th-century English calf, gilt spine, red sprinkled edges (rather worn, front cover nearly detached). Provenance: 18th-century purchase note with price 12s -- William Charles de Meuron, 7th Earl Fitzwilliam (1872-1943, bookplate; by descent to:) -- William Henry Lawrence Peter, 8th Earl Fitzwilliam (1910-1948, his sale, Sotheby's, 26 April 1948, lot 662).
FIRST EDITION of this work on equine anatomy and disease by one of the best known riding masters of his day, the French equerry Gaspard de Saunier. The fine plates of horse anatomy, while claiming to be drawn from nature, are derived from those by Ruini. Brunet V, 149; Huth, p.31; Mennessier de la Lance, 490; Nissen 3592 (calling for 12, not 10, preliminary pages).
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