[Horses]. Fine specimen with beards from the library of Baron Horace de Landau and Gustavo Galletti of the second editionRiflessioni sopra gli effetti del moto a cavallo by Giuseppe Benvenuti dated 1772 with portrait of the author within oval at the antiporta, within coeval mute hardback binding. Also in the lot is a fine copy of Ippologia diGiovanni Antonio Maria Gazzola of 1837 with numerous watercolor lithographic plates outside the text within coeval binding in hazel-colored half calf with phytomorphic friezes on the smooth spine, and the Manuale di equitazione basato sopra nuovi principii by F. Baucher of 1863. (3)

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