[Horses]. Ferraro, Giovanni Battista. Delle razze, disciplina del cavalcare, et altre cose pertinenti ad essercitio cosi fatto. Naples, Mattia Cancer, 1560. In 4° (212 x 150 mm); [4],123, [1] papers. Small woodcut frieze on title page (washed?, small woodworm hole at inner white margin, restoration to last paper). Half vellum binding with gold title on gusset to smooth spine. First edition of this treatise written by Giovanni BattistaFerraro, an important personality of the first Neapolitan equestrian academy, and still considered one of the fathers of world horsemanship. The work deals with the feeding and reproduction of the horse, the aesthetics of the horse, the clothing of the rider, the development of foals, and the diseases that can affect horses, and their potential remedies.

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