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RODRIGUEZ JORDAN, Salvador
- Escuela de a cavallo, dividida en tres
tratados. El primero, contiene los manejos de tierre (...) El segundo, demuestra los manejos de
ayre (...) El tercero, trata de las propriedades (...) que debe tener el cavallo de guerra. Madrid, D.
Gabriel Ramirez for L. Gutierrez, 1751, 4to, mod. overl. vellum, flat spine, [32]-200 pp. (edges of
1st & last ff. sl. frayed, sm. stain in fore-edge margin, tear in pl. between pp. 130-131). Good copy.
Cfr. ill.
€ 750/1000
Rare 1st and only ed.
of a work on horse riding by Rodriguez Jordan (fl. 1738-1751), riding master
at the courts of Naples and Madrid.
Engr. ills
: frontisp., full-page arms of Medinaceli,
23 full-page
pls
and 6 text woodcuts. Blind collector’s stamp.
Ref.
Dejager 328. Palau 274139. Whitehead (BL)
R-149.
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SAUNIER, Jean de
- La parfaite connoissance des chevaux, leur anatomie,
leurs bonnes & mauvaises qualitez, leurs maladies & les remedes qui y conviennent [ed. Gaspard
de Saunier]. The Hague, for the author & A. Moetjens, 1734, folio, cont. half roan (rubbed), flat
spine with gilt label, [8]-256-[8] pp. (top margin dampstained). Very good uncut copy.
Cfr. ill.
€ 1200/1500
1st ed.
of a classic treatise on horse medicine by G. de Saunier (1663-1748), equerry of the Duke
de Lude.
Engr. ills
: vignette on title, arms of dedicatees as headpiece,
full-page portrait
of G.
de Saunier
by D.
Coster
and
61 full-page pl.
by various artists, including 43 anatomical plates.
Ref.
Dejager 293. Mennessier II:40. Nissen (ZBI) 3592.
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SIND, Johann Balthasar von
- L’art du manege pris dans ses vrais principes,
suivi d’une nouvelle méthode pour l’embouchure des chevaux et d’une connoissance abrégée des
principales maladies (...) [3rd ed.]. Wien & Paris, G. Desprez, 1774, 8vo, cont. quarter sheep, richly
gilt flat spine (sm. def.), xvj-342-[2] pp. (single wormhole in blank bottom margin, wormtrack in
blank bottom margin of last ff.). Very good copy.
€ 150/250
3rd ed. (1st 1762) of the abridged French trsl. of “Vollständiger Unterricht in den Wissenschaffen
eines Stallmeisters” (1770) of the equerry and horse physician von Sind (1709-1776).
Engr.
ills
: front. and 7 folding pl. Mod. bookpls Maurice Pellisier & de Strycker. Bookseller’s ticket.
Ref.
Mennessier II:514. Cp. Dejager 265 (1st ed.).
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