GRISONE, Frederico. L'Escuirie du ... Grison ... En laquelle est monstré l'ordre & l'art de choysir, donter, picquer, dresser & manier les cheuaux, translated from Italian into French by Charles Périer, Paris: Adrian Perier, 1615, 4°, large woodcut printer's device to title, 54 illustrations, including 3 full-page (title and a few leaves lightly spotted), contemporary limp vellum, manuscript title to spine (extremities bumped, lacking ties).

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GRISONE, Frederico. L'Escuirie du ... Grison ... En laquelle est monstré l'ordre & l'art de choysir, donter, picquer, dresser & manier les cheuaux, translated from Italian into French by Charles Périer, Paris: Adrian Perier, 1615, 4°, large woodcut printer's device to title, 54 illustrations, including 3 full-page (title and a few leaves lightly spotted), contemporary limp vellum, manuscript title to spine (extremities bumped, lacking ties).

Provenance

Bernadin Jamais, contemporary ownership inscription to pastedown; Commandant de la Chapelle, bookplate.

Lot Essay

This treatise was first published in Italian in 1550 and in French translation in 1559, by Périer, the grandfather of the publisher of the present edition. The text is that of the second revised French edition of 1563. The illustrations include a series of 51 woodcuts of horse bits.

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