LA GUÉRINIÈRE (François ROBICHON DE). Cavalry school. Contai - Lot 121

LA GUÉRINIÈRE (François ROBICHON DE). Cavalry school. Containing the knowledge, (...) (...) l'instruction, et la conservation du cheval. A Paris, De l'Imprimerie de Jacques Collombat, 1733. In-folio, calf, ornate ribbed spine (period binding). FIRST EDITION. A title-frontispiece, a vignette with the coat of arms of Charles de Lorraine, comte d'Armagnac, grand écuyer de France, to whom the work is dedicated, three bands, a cul-de-lampe, five large figures and seventeen plates, some folded, including four double plates, after PARROCEL & COQUARD, engraved by AVELINE, BORDE, CARS, LEBAS & TARDIEU. The plates include six equestrian portraits of Prince Charles de NASSAU, Monsieur de KRAUT and three of the sons of the Duc de SAINT-AIGNAN, whose riding master La Guérinière was. A few small scattered stains on some leaves. Huth, 31; Mennessier de La Lance, II, 27.