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MOTTIN DE LA BALME. Essais sur l'équitation, ou Principes raisonnés sur l'art de monter et de dresser les chevaux. Amsterdam and Paris, Jombert et Ruault, 1773. In-12, l-394 pp. Marbled basane, ornate smooth spine, red marbled title page, marbled boards (period binding). Fine frontispiece portrait of Posture on horseback, drawn by Moreau le jeune and engraved by Ingouf. A few small wormholes on the spine, a few small rubs, a few brown spots, otherwise a good copy. "Mottin de la Balme was certainly a valuable squire. He was mainly concerned with military riding, seeking to standardize the then so varied teaching methods, excluding from his instruction the 'prestiges', the piaffe, the passage 'useless for foraging in the countryside, passing marshes and trudging through mud...' He had until the beginning of the 19th century, an often happy influence on military riding. At the end of the book is an interesting Analyse de quelques ouvrages anciens & modernes sur l'Equitation, depuis M. de La Broue jusqu'à nos jours, in which Mottin de La Balme spares no criticism of his predecessors." Mennessier de La Lance, II, 228.

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MOTTIN DE LA BALME. Essais sur l'équitation, ou Principes raisonnés sur l'art de monter et de dresser les chevaux. Amsterdam and Paris, Jombert et Ruault, 1773. In-12, l-394 pp. Marbled basane, ornate smooth spine, red marbled title page, marbled boards (period binding). Fine frontispiece portrait of Posture on horseback, drawn by Moreau le jeune and engraved by Ingouf. A few small wormholes on the spine, a few small rubs, a few brown spots, otherwise a good copy. "Mottin de la Balme was certainly a valuable squire. He was mainly concerned with military riding, seeking to standardize the then so varied teaching methods, excluding from his instruction the 'prestiges', the piaffe, the passage 'useless for foraging in the countryside, passing marshes and trudging through mud...' He had until the beginning of the 19th century, an often happy influence on military riding. At the end of the book is an interesting Analyse de quelques ouvrages anciens & modernes sur l'Equitation, depuis M. de La Broue jusqu'à nos jours, in which Mottin de La Balme spares no criticism of his predecessors." Mennessier de La Lance, II, 228.

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