Lot 142
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CAVENDISH, William, Duke of Newcastle (1592-1676). A New Method, and Extraordinary Invention, to dress Horses. London: Thomas Milbourn, 1667. 2° (356 x 229). (Title lightly dust-soiled, first 2 leaves with short marginal tear and repaired tear at lower corner, occasional dust soiling.) Contemporary mottled calf (rebacked, lower corners repaired, scuffed). Provenance: Peter Crossman (bookplate; his sale Christie's, South Kensington, 1 September 2008, lot 30).
CAVENDISH, William, Duke of Newcastle (1592-1676). A New Method, and Extraordinary Invention, to dress Horses. London: Thomas Milbourn, 1667. 2° (356 x 229). (Title lightly dust-soiled, first 2 leaves with short marginal tear and repaired tear at lower corner, occasional dust soiling.) Contemporary mottled calf (rebacked, lower corners repaired, scuffed). Provenance: Peter Crossman (bookplate; his sale Christie's, South Kensington, 1 September 2008, lot 30).

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CAVENDISH, William, Duke of Newcastle (1592-1676). A New Method, and Extraordinary Invention, to dress Horses. London: Thomas Milbourn, 1667. 2° (356 x 229). (Title lightly dust-soiled, first 2 leaves with short marginal tear and repaired tear at lower corner, occasional dust soiling.) Contemporary mottled calf (rebacked, lower corners repaired, scuffed). Provenance: Peter Crossman (bookplate; his sale Christie's, South Kensington, 1 September 2008, lot 30).

FIRST EDITION of the Duke of Newcastle's second treatise on horsemanship. He described it as 'neither a translation of the first, nor an absolutely necessary addition to it' (see ODNB). Huth p. 23; Wing N-887.

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