[Horses]. Bonsi, Francesco. Institutions of farriery leading with brevity and clarity to exercise with sodi fundamentals the medicine of horses. Rimini, Albertini, 1786-87. In 8° (210 x 138 mm); CIV, 104; [2], [105]-386 pages. Woodcut friezes to frontispiece, 8 copper-engraved plates at end of volume with coeval coloring (one blank paper missing in second volume?, marginal flourishes.) Coeval marbled paperback binding (missing spine, first papers in second volume partly detached). Specimen with beards and partly closed sheets of this first edition. Rare specimen with colored plates. Also in the lot the Rules for perfectly knowing the beauties, and defects of horses by Francesco Bonsi of 1751 with 2 engraved and folded plates at end of volume within miscellany with a specimen with beards of the Lettera apologetica in risposta, che fa l'autore del tirocinio veterinario al sig: Carlo Mazzesi also by Bonsi of 1757. (3)