Biologie - Zoologie - - Winter von

Biology - Zoology - - Winter von Adlersflügel, Georg Simon. Wolerfahrner horse doctor, who thoroughly teaches how to recognize the complexion, nature and age of horses, to cure all internal and external diseases, and to prevent the healthy horses from all impending deficiencies. With an appendix of some rare, for young foals well-founded remedies, also thoroughly improved, and increased with the most proven Arcanis, by Valentin Trichter, wolbestalten Reit-Meistern der Republic Nürnberg. Decorated with many necessary engravings. With 44 (of 45) folded copper plates. Nuremberg, Endter, 1722. 20 pp., 838 pp., 9 pp. 17.5 x 11 cm. Leather binding of the time with spine label and rich spine gilding (capitals and edges old restored, label with missing part). Later edition, probably the first published by Trichter. - Cf. Schrader/H. 1957. - The beautiful coppers resemble those of the 17th century folio edition. - The first plate with the instruments only fragmentary. - Stamp on endpapers, some light browning, a few leaves in margin with faint water stain. *