Ruffo, Giordano , and Agogo Mago. Libro dela natura di cavalli: & elmodo di rivelarli. Venice, Giovanni Tacuino, 1519. In 8° (148 x 102 mm);[68] wrappers.Frontispiece printed in red and black with large woodcut vignette, letterpress mark at end of volume, one figure in text, last 20 pages contain 78 models of bites (small halo to frontispiece.) Modern binding in imitation of an antique midnight blue morocco binding with frame and fleurons to plates, friezes to spine, 19th-century woodcut paper included. Stamp of Francesco Maria Campori. Very rare edition of thisprime treatise on veterinary medicine in Latin Europe. The authorwas an official ofFedericus II of Swabia,whose castellan and farrier he was. The treatise focused mainly on the care of horsesfor use in war was commissioned by the emperor himself, who supervised its drafting.

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