229 - LA GUERINIERE, François Robichon de.

LA GUERINIERE, François Robichon de. School of Cavalry: Covering the Knowledge, Training, and Care of the Horse. Paris: Huart and Moreau, Sons; Desaint and Saillant [& others], 1751. Folio, (5) folios, 318 pp., (5) pp., 25 plates. Contemporary marbled havana calfskin, spine with 6 raised bands, burgundy title label, gilded floral panels, gilded roulette on the edges, red edges (binding worn with the upper bit leather cracked, frontispiece title detached, a few water stains, quires slightly loose with plates detached on pp. 48, 74, 104, and 121; a few stains on certain plates, particularly near the inner joint, as the book had been exposed to some moisture). Description: Large and beautiful allegorical frontispiece title page, engraved on copper after Parrocel by Cars. Featuring the full coat of arms of Charles de Lorraine, the dedicatee, engraved in a banner. Only two editions were published in folio format; this is the second, augmented with a short *Treatise on Stud Farms* at the end. Contains (5) folios, including the frontispiece after Parrocel, title page, dedication, and preface; 318 pages; (5) folios. Table of contents with approval and privilege on the verso of the last leaf; 25 copperplate engravings in black, including 3 double-page plates by Parrocel or Coquart for the technical illustrations; 5 headbands by Parrocel. “One of the finest works ever published in France on the horse. The paper, the type—everything is impeccable, and Parrocel’s plates lend it special value” (Mennessier de La Lance I, 27).