[EQUITATION]. LA GUERINIERE François Robichon... - Lot 258 - Actéon - Compiègne Enchères

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[EQUITATION]. LA GUERINIERE François Robichon... - Lot 258 - Actéon - Compiègne Enchères
[EQUITATION]. LA GUERINIERE François Robichon de School of Cavalry containing the Knowledge, the Instruction and the Conservation of the Horse. With figures in intaglio. In Paris, at Huart and Moreau, Desaint and Saillant, Durand, Delormel and Pissot, 1751. In-folio marbled fawn calf, spine decorated "à la fleur de grenade" (period binding). Second edition in folio. Ex-libris of André DAMIEN A title-frontispiece, a vignette with the coat of arms of Charles de Lorraine, count of Armagnac, great squire of France, to whom the work is dedicated, three headbands, twenty plates and equestrian portraits, some folded, including four double ones, after PARROCEL & COQUARD, engraved by AVELINE, BORDE, CARS, LEBAS & TARDIEU. Among the 23 plates, six equestrian portraits represent Prince Charles de Nassau, Monsieur de Kraut and three of the sons of the Duc de Saint-Aignan, whose riding master La Guérinière was. Skillful restorations, wear, anotatoin to the lead pencil pages 275 and 276 (in the margin). Provenance : - Private collection of Mario LURASCHI
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