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a pair of antique books on a shelf with a hand holding onean open book with a black and white title on itan old book with a picture of a man on ita picture of a book with a picture of a man on itan open book with a drawing of a man riding a horsean open book with a black and white title on itan open book with a drawing of a circle on the inside of itan open book on a table with a calculator and a calculator on it
Thierry de Maigret

49 - Set of 2 volumes: - Saunier (Gaspard de): ?The Art of Horsem…
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Estimate €1,500 - €2,000
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Set of 2 volumes: - Saunier (Gaspard de): ?The Art of Horsemanship, or How to Become a Good Horseman through Simple and Practical Rules for training horses for all the purposes required by man’s utility and pleasure; both for riding, as for War, Hunting, Riding, Carriage Driving, Racing, Tournaments, or Carousels, etc.?, Paris: C. A. Jombert, printer and bookseller, 1756; small folio, sheepskin, spine with decorated raised bands. (Early 19th-century binding) First edition, co-published with Jean NEAULME Amsterdam. 13 engraved plates (out of 27), depicting pieces of harness, some folded, gathered at the end, with end-piece illustrations. Copy re-bound 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 a Horse… 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, published by Mac’ Ruette, Bookseller and the King’s Bookbinder, 1629. Folio, 260 x 370 mm, black half-shagreen corners, triple gilt fillet bordering the covers, spine with decorated raised band, gilt edges. (Mid-19th-century binding). Bilingual French-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 frontispiece title page (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 privilegeand a table of plates on the reverse) & 52 plates + portraits (5 plates missing), double plates engraved by CRISPIN de PAS (including 6 of the bit) produced by Matthieu MRIAN based on the plates from the 1623 Royal Riding School, but adorned with a different architectural design, accompanied78 pages (pages 1–19 and 21–40), including two errata. The title page, printed on heavy paper, appears to be a later addition; small tears, restored in the margins of folios HHh1, Iii2 and plates 20 and 48; the final folio SSs2 is missing. From the library of Joseph Edgar BOEHM, with bookplate. ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE BOOKS ON FENCING. MENNESSIER de la LANCE, II, 331.
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