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Verlag: HACHETTE LIVRE, 2016
ISBN 10: 2011342481ISBN 13: 9782011342485
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Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnWORK IS IN FRENCH This book is a reproduction of a work published before 1920 and is part of a collection of books reprinted and edited by Hachette Livre, in the framework of a partnership with the National Library of France, prov.
Verlag: WENTWORTH PR, 2018
ISBN 10: 0274420767ISBN 13: 9780274420766
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Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New.
Verlag: WENTWORTH PR, 2018
ISBN 10: 0274420775ISBN 13: 9780274420773
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Gebunden. Zustand: New.
Verlag: London: J. Brindley, 1737., 1737
Anbieter: Librería Antonio Castro, SEVILLA, SE, Spanien
Imagen: 39x52 de A. van Diepenbeke. Caballo y jinete mostrando seis pasos distintos. Muy buen estado.
Verlag: Chez Jean Brindley, Libraire de S.A.R. Monseigneur de Galles, dans New Bond-street., London., 1737
Anbieter: Sims Reed Ltd ABA ILAB, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Folio. (538 x 375 mm). [2 blank leaves, engraved title, printed title, various dedications (see below), engraved plates, pp. 236 (Books I - IV, 'Abbregé de la Cavalerie', 'Conclusion au Lecteur', 'Additions', 'Table', 2 blank leaves]. Double-page engraved illustrated title leaf, printed title with woodcut vignette, leaf with Brindley's dedication to 'Henriette Cavendish-Holles, Countes of Oxford & Mortimer', leaf with 'Avertissement sur cette Seconde Edition', 3 leaves with Newcastle's 'Au Roy de la Grande Bretagne', additional dedications to 'Mes Tres-Chers Fils le Seigneur Charles, Vicomte de Mansfield et le Seigneur Henry Cavendish' and to 'Tous Honorable Cavaliers, et aux Tres-Excellens Cavallerizzes' and 42 double-page engraved plates, all on single sheets and mounted on guards by various engravers (Lisbetten, Vostermans, Kessel, Clouwet &c.) after Van Diepenbeke and numerous woodcuts throughout. (Sheet size: c.525 x 630 mm). Engraved and woodcut head- and tail-pieces throughout, decorative woodcut 4-line initials for each chapter opening. Four leaves of text (pages 81 - 84 and 87 - 90) are very slightly shorter (remargined at foot) and may have been supplied from another copy. Occasional slight browning and foxing but overall a crisp, clean copy. Contemporary English red morocco by John Brindley, boards with elaborate gilt-tooled borders, banded spine in eight compartments with morocco title label with gilt title and black morocco sections with elaborate decorative tooling in alternating compartments, board edges with gilt decoration, turn-ins with additional gilt tooling, marbled endpapers, a.e.g., fore-edge with elaborate contemporary painted decoration (see below) beneath the gilding also by John Brindley. [PROVENANCE: Armorial fore-edge painting with the arms of Dr. Richard Mead combined with those of his second wife Ann Alston and ther motto 'NON SIBI SED TOTI'; bookplate to front pastedown with the text 'Milton, / Peterborough', that of the Viscounts Milton and Earls Fitzwilliam, of Milton Park); engraved armorial bookplate of Weetman Harold Pearson with the motto 'DO IT WITH THY MIGHT', 2nd. Viscount Cowdray; library location in pencil to front free endpaper verso; library location in ink to head of first blank leaf]. Dr. Richard Mead's copy of the second edition of Cavendish's famous equine treatise bound in contemporary English red morocco with a rare contemporary fore-edge painting of Mead's and his wife's arms, the binding and fore-edge by John Brindley who was, in addition, the publisher of the work. 'Dr. Richard Mead lived more in the broad sunshine of life than any almost any man.' (Dr. Johnson). First printed at Anvers in 1658 during Cavendish's self-imposed exile during the English Civil War, this second edition was printed on a better quality of paper using the same plates as for the first edition. Cavendish (1592 - 1676), a staunch Royalist, was raised to the Dukedom of Newcastle at the Restoration of Charles II in 1660, hence the omission of that title on the title of the present work. The archetypal Stuart courtier and aristocrat, the very wealthy and landed Cavendish was a poet, scholar, diplomat, soldier, architect and a famous and accomplished horseman. Cavendish's 'Methode et Invention Nouvelle de Dresser les Chevaux' sets out the influential lessons for schooling horses ('l'art de manège') employed by Cavendish himself at his famous riding school. As well as allegorical compositions, a portrait of Cavendish surrounded by worshipping horses, a portrait of Charles II (who was entrusted to Cavendish by his father Charles I for his education) and a group portrait of the Cavendish family, the work features 24 plates of training, many depicting Cavendish himself, as well as his assistant Captain Mazin. The large number of woodcuts in the text depict (in the main) the technical footwork required by the horses in their schooling. While at Anvers Cavendish inhabitated the Rubenshuis, Peter Paul Rubens home for the last three decades of his life; Abraham van Diepenbeke who designed the plates of the work had been a pupil of Rubens. Dr. Richard Mead (1673 - 1754) was an important philanthropist, patron, collector, physician, classicist, antiquarian, scholar, bibliophile and author (in no order of priority). Satirised by Sterne as 'Dr. Kunastrolius', as a Royal physician Mead attended Queen Anne on her deathbed and was later physician to George II as Prince of Wales and as King as well as to Sir Isaac Newton. Mead succeeded John Radcliffe as the most important medical man in Britain, pioneered inoculation with Sir Hans Sloane and was influential in the establishment of Thomas Coram's 'Foundling Hospital'; Mead's Bloomsbury house in Great Ormond Street later became the 'Hospital for Sick Children' (now the Great Ormond Street Hospital or GOSH). Mead had an astonishing collection of paintings including Holbein's portrait of Erasmus, Titian's portrait of Vesalius, Kneller's portrait of Edmund Halley and works by Canaletto, Claude, Rembrandt, Brueghel and Poussin. He also owned extensive series of prints and drawings and commissioned works by Watteau and Scheemakers. 'Rare monkish manuscripts for Hearne alone, / And books for Mead and butterflies for Sloane.' (Alexander Pope). As a bibliophile, Mead was almost unrivalled, ODNB states that 'Mead's collection of books and manuscripts was second only to that of Hans Sloane', adding the detail that he owned over 10,000 volumes including 146 incunabulae. His collection was sold as the 'Bibliotheca Meadiana' - unlike Sloane he wished for the dispersal of his collection - in two sales, the first between November 18th and December 19th, 1754, over 28 days, the second between April 7th and May 8th, 1755, over 28 days. The whole collection achieved £5,540-7-6 (bookcases included) and featured Mead's copy of Vesalius' 'Epitome' on vellum (now in the British Library), a copy of the 1469 Pliny purchased by Louis XV of France, a Shakesp.