[Horses]. Santapaulina, Nicholas , and Louis Santapaulina. The art of the horse ... Divided into three books. Padua, Stamperia del Seminario, 1696. In 2nd (320 x 228 mm);[12], 208 pages. Illustrated frontispiece with Medici coat of arms, colored in watercolor, copper-engraved, portrait of the author within copper-engraved oval by Iuster and colored in watercolor, 10 woodcut diagrams of handling exercises in the text (slight dampstain affecting the first four papers.) Modern hardback binding. Exemplar with beards of this first edition. Complete treatise on horsemanship and hippology.

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