![BLUNDEVILLE, Thomas (?1522-?1606). The fower chiefest offices belonging to Horsemanshippe. London: William Seres, [c.1570]. Four parts in one volume, 4° (190 x 143mm). General title and 3 part-titles, each within woodcut border [McKerrow & Ferguson 121], 91 woodcut illustrations of horse bits, hooves, diagrams, etc., ornamental initials. (Title trimmed at fore- and bottom margin just into border, a few minor paper flaws or faint soiling, small marginal wormhole at beginning and end.) ?19th-century flexible vellum (modern endpapers); modern calf-backed folding box. Provenance: notes, some deleted, on final blank.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2012/CSK/2012_CSK_04354_0136_000(blundeville_thomas_the_fower_chiefest_offices_belonging_to_horsemanshi114006).jpg?w=1)
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BLUNDEVILLE, Thomas (?1522-?1606). The fower chiefest offices belonging to Horsemanshippe. London: William Seres, [c.1570]. Four parts in one volume, 4° (190 x 143mm). General title and 3 part-titles, each within woodcut border [McKerrow & Ferguson 121], 91 woodcut illustrations of horse bits, hooves, diagrams, etc., ornamental initials. (Title trimmed at fore- and bottom margin just into border, a few minor paper flaws or faint soiling, small marginal wormhole at beginning and end.) ?19th-century flexible vellum (modern endpapers); modern calf-backed folding box. Provenance: notes, some deleted, on final blank.
SECOND EDITION of Blundeville's 'substantial and wide-ranging work' (ODNB) on horsemanship, dealing with breeding, breaking and training, riding, bits and other equipment, and diet and disease of horses. Blundeville also wrote works on mathematics, astronomy, navigation, cosmology, historiography, and logic, and counted John Dee among his friends. Part II is Blundeville's translation into English of Grisone's Ordini di Cavalcare, 'newlye corrected and amended of manye faultes escaped in the first Printing'. The four parts, though separately foliated, are continuously signed. Mellon 8; STC 3153.
SECOND EDITION of Blundeville's 'substantial and wide-ranging work' (ODNB) on horsemanship, dealing with breeding, breaking and training, riding, bits and other equipment, and diet and disease of horses. Blundeville also wrote works on mathematics, astronomy, navigation, cosmology, historiography, and logic, and counted John Dee among his friends. Part II is Blundeville's translation into English of Grisone's Ordini di Cavalcare, 'newlye corrected and amended of manye faultes escaped in the first Printing'. The four parts, though separately foliated, are continuously signed. Mellon 8; STC 3153.