F. Grisone - Ordini di cavalcare, et modi di conoscere le nature de' cavalli - 1584

Federico Grisone

Orders for riding, and ways to understand the natures of horses. Additionally, a selection of notable warnings was included to produce excellent breeds and to remedy the ailments of horses.

A beautiful horse book, printed in Venice, published by L. Valvassori & G. D. Micheli, from the year 1584. Book size: 21.5 cm x 17 cm. With printer's mark on the title, approximately 50 large woodcuts and one large diagram. Bound in a half-leather binding of the period with gold tooling and a spine label.

Collation: 6 vols., 163 pp., 71, 6 vols.

EDIT 16, CNCE 21847; Mennessier de la Lance I, 581. - A somewhat later edition of the first published in Naples in 1550 of the equestrian treatise. 'A treatise on horsemanship and bits that achieved extraordinary success and went through numerous editions in all the languages of Europe' (Mennessier). The woodcuts mainly depict harnesses.

CONDITION: Good and beautiful copy with signs of use, cover bumped, scratched, and rubbed. Inside slightly browned, partly more so, with water-stains and spots, good binding.