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34 - [HORSE]. MENOU (René de). THE RIDER’S PRACTICE, or The Art o…
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[HORSE]. MENOU (René de). THE RIDER’S PRACTICE, or The Art of Riding. Which teaches the method of training horses to perform the finest movements and manoeuvres. P., G. & J.-B. Loyson, 1651. In-4, fawn-coloured grained calfskin, covers decorated with gilt fillet borders, decorated ribbed spine, paper title label, mottled edges (contemporary binding); (10) ff., 245 pp., (6) pp. of tables. Cap covers torn off (lower panel missing), tears in the upper cap, leather missing from the edges, stained covers, small losses and tears in the left-hand margin of the title page, small losses of paper in the top margin of the first 4 folios, small brown stains tapering off in the top margin of the first 17 folios, faint marginal water stains. NEW EDITION, revised, corrected and expanded by the author. WITHOUT the portrait and the 5 plates out of text announced by Mennessier. AS IS. ¶ Mennessier de La Lance, 188. ENCLOSED: BARTLET (Jean). THE GENTLEMAN MARSHAL. P., Jombert, 1756. 12mo, marbled fawn sheepskin, smooth partitioned spine, title labels, edges speckled with blue (contemporary binding). Split joints but sound stitching, headbands missing, spine rubbed with losses to the title labels, corners worn, water stains on the first and last leaves. FIRST FRENCH EDITION, translated from the English by J.-B. Dupuy Demportes. AS IS. ¶ Mennessier de La Lance, 79. SET OF 2 VOLUMES.
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