The History and Art of Horsemanship.
London: Printed for T. Davies...and T. Cadell, 1771.
First edition. Two frontispieces and 15 engraved plates. 1 vols. 4to. Original boards, uncut, with new spine. Large Copy. Huth p. 45; Wells 749; Mellon 60. Item #62370
This work, by the "Gentleman of the Horse to His Majesty", is a compound of Xenophon's Treatise on Horsemanship and Bourgelats' Elements (1750-53); it contains a dissertation on the Ancient Chariot by T. Pownall; physically a very attractive book.
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