[Horses]. Leparfaitmareschaldi Jacques deSolleyseln the Liege edition of1708 with engraved antiporta, 1 engraved and fold-out plate, and numerous woodcut figures in the text, within coeval leather binding. Also in the lot along with this bestseller of the most important French work on horsemanship is Giovanni Battista Trutta's Novello giardino della pratica in the 1699 edition, missing one part. The Novello giardinoconstitutes a full-bodied treatise on hippology and veterinary medicine and also contains notions of animal husbandry in which the author also dwells on bovine species, donkeys, and mules. (2)

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