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40 - Grisone, Federico. Instructions for Riding and How to Understand the Temperaments of Horses. Venice, Salicato, 1582. Bound together with Various Ailments That Usually Affect Horses: and the Remedies Applied to Each of Them. Venice, Salicato, 1582. A classic of Renaissance equestrian treatises

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€800 - 1,200

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Grisone, Federico. Instructions for Riding and How to Understand the Temperaments of Horses. Venice, Salicato, 1582. Bound together with Various Ailments That Usually Affect Horses: and the Remedies Applied to Each of Them. Venice, Salicato, 1582. A classic of Renaissance equestrian treatises Grisone, Federico. Instructions for Riding and How to Understand the Temperaments of Horses. Venice, Salicato, 1582. Bound together with Various Ailments That Usually Affect Horses: and the Remedies Applied to Each of Them. Venice, Salicato, 1582. Two parts in one octavo volume (160 x 105 mm); 109, [28]; [8] leaves. Printer’s marks on the title pages, 1 folded plate at the end of the volume, 50 full-page woodcut illustrations, 2 illustrations in the text (woodworm holes with partial loss on the first 3 leaves). Contemporary soft parchment binding, handwritten title on the spine (signs of age). An important work dedicated to horse training, the correction of bad habits, and the horse’s use in military contexts, accompanied by a treatise on equine diseases and their remedies, all enriched by a remarkable collection of illustrations. First published in Naples in 1550, the manual contributed to the spread of the Italian school of horsemanship throughout Europe. A classic of Renaissance equestrian literature

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Books, manuscripts, and autographs
Thursday, November 19
10:30 AM
Via Manzoni, 45
20121 Milan, Italy

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