2-volume set: - Lot 49

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2-volume set: - Lot 49
2-volume set: Saunier (Gaspard de): “The Art of Horsemanship, or How to Become a Good Rider Through Simple Rules Suitable for Training Horses for All Purposes Required by Human Usefulness and Pleasure; Whether for the Riding Arena, or for war, hunting, riding, driving, racing, tournaments, or carousels, etc.”, Paris: C. A. Jombert, printer and bookseller, 1756; small folio, sheepskin, decorated raised spine. (Early 19th-century binding) First edition, published jointly with Jean NEAULME in Amsterdam. 13 engraved plates (out of 27), depicting pieces of horse tack, some folded, gathered at the end of the volume, with colophons. Copy rebound in an early 19th-century binding; foxing and stains on a few leaves. MENNESSIER de la LANCE, II, 491. Pluvinel (Antoine de): “The King’s Instruction on the Art of Riding... How to Train a Horse in the Correct and Most Certain Manner and Way, and to Bring It to Obedience to the Rider in a Short Time...”. Paris: Macé Ruette, Bookseller and Royal Bookbinder, 1629. Folio, 260 x 370 mm, black half-shagreen with corner pieces, triple gilt fillet bordering the covers, decorated spine, gilt edges. (Mid-19th-century binding). A bilingual French-German edition, produced in accordance with the author’s manuscript (the first edition had been published in Paris by Michel NIVELLE in 1625). 8 leaves (including the title pages) + 254 pages. Bilingual texts in two columns, with the French on the inside and the German on the outside. An engraved double-title frontispiece (1629), a title page, a portrait of Louis XIII by Gotfried MÜLLER dated 1624, followed by three pages of bilingual dedications signed “René de Menou” (including one on the back of the portrait), three portraits (those of the author, M. de MENOU, and the Duke of BELLEGARDE, the latter two with a privilege and a table of figures on the reverse) & 52 plates + portraits (5 plates missing), double plates engraved by CRISPIN de PAS (including 6 bite plates) executed by Matthieu MÉRIAN based on the plates of the 1623 Royal Riding School, but adorned with different architectural decoration, accompanied by 78 pages (paginated 1–19 and 21–40), including two “errata.” The title page, printed on heavy paper, appears to be later; small tears restored in the margins of folios HHh1, Iii2, and plates 20 and 48; the last folio, SSs2, is missing. From the library of Joseph Edgar BOEHM, with bookplate. ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE BOOKS ON EQUESTRIANISM. MENNESSIER de la LANCE, II, 331.
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