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HORSES. SOLLEYSELL, JACQUES DE (SIEUR DE CLAPIER). The Compleat Horseman: Discovering the surest Marks Beauty, Goodness, faults and Imperfections of Horses: the Signs and causes of their Diseases, the True Method both of the Preservation and Cure: with Reflexions on the Regular and Proposterous Use of Bleeding and Purging. Also the Art of Shooing... Together with the best Method of Breedeing Colta, Backing ´em, and making their Mouth, &c... To which is added, a most Excellent Supplement of Riding, Collected from the best Authors. With an Alphabetical Catalogue of all the Physical Simples in English, French, and Latin. By sir William Hope... Made English from the Eighth Edition of the Original,... I-II. London (printed for M. Gillyflower and others) 1696 and Edinburgh (George Mosman) 1696 (for the Supplement).

Folio (307x180 mm.). 2 engraved extra titles, 1 engraved frontispiece portrait of the author (engraved title to part I worn and shaved with some loss of text and letters, some tape repairs, tears and creases to outer part and margin), 6 folding engraved plates (complete, first plate with spotting, 1 plate with one small hole, 1 with repair in corner, 1 with small tear in the folding, small hole and marginal paperloss, minor foxing).
Brown contemporary full leather, partly worn, some cracks in the joints, spine in six compartments with gilt label, some damages and small repair at head. Title to part I worn and shaved with some loss of text and letters, text of part II closely cut in outer margin with loss of a few numbers in the pagination. Some foxing and spotting. Library stamp to margin on dedication leaf (Duplicate Bridgew. Lib.).

Wells, Horsemanship (1985), 7175. Second folio edition in English. Translation by William Hope from the 8th French edition of Le parfait Mareschal (Paris 1664).With the supplement to the first part by William Hope.
Collation: (36), 1-261, (17), (4), 1-86, (2, last blank), (16), 1-300, (4) pp.

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Auktionsnummer:

671242

Datum:

2019-09-01