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ISBN 10: 0274420767 ISBN 13: 9780274420766
Seller: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germany
Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Medical theory and practice of the 1700s developed rapidly, as is evidenced by the extensive collection, which includes descriptions of diseases, their conditions, and treatments. Books on science and technology, agriculture, military technology, natural philosophy, even cookbooks, are all contained here.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++British LibraryT102953With an additional titlepage, engraved, of the 1658 Antwerp edition.Londres: chez Jean Brindley, 1737. iv, [8],236p., plates; 2°.
Published by A ANVERS, France, 1737
Seller: Hornseys, Ripon, United Kingdom
No Binding. Condition: Very Good Plus. 2nd Edition. Dated 1658 but probably from the second edition of 1737. Size: 52cm x 42.3cm. Copper engraved title page from this highly important 17th century work on the training of horses. Later but not modern hand-colouring which is of exceptionally high quality. Archive repairs to the head and tail of the fold-line and left hand margin. Minor marks and dustiness. In very good indeed, bright, clean condition overall. Very scarce.
Published by Chez Jean Brindley, Libraire de S. A. R. Monseigeur le Prince de Galles, dans New Bond-street, London, 1737
Seller: Donald A. Heald Rare Books (ABAA), New York, NY, U.S.A.
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Folio. (20 3/4 x 14 1/4 inches). Second edition deluxe large paper issue with wide margins. 43 double-page engravings after Abraham van Diepenbeke including 42 numbered 1-42, and the unnumbered 1658 title with Anvers imprint. Engraved head-piece to first dedication. Numerous woodcut illustrations throughout the text, and woodcut historiated and inhabited initials, head- and tail-pieces, and printer's ornaments. [12] [1]-236. 248 pp. Letterpress title with London imprint and four dedications to Henriette Cavendishe-Holles, the King of Grande-Bretagne, Charles Vicomte de Mansfield, and to Cavaliers. Avertissement, avant-propos, four livres plus an Abbrege de la Cavalerie, conclusion, additions, table des chapitres. With incisive manuscript commentary pencilled in the margins in both French and English. Text in French. Bound to style in eighteenth-century half leather over eighteenth-century comb marbled paper-covered boards and marbled endpapers Deluxe large paper issue of Cavendish's classic 1737 treatise on equestrianism, with 43 splendid double-page engravings: "The illustrations are among the most beautiful to ever grace equestrian literature." [Ramsay] Though considered a country of horse lovers, England only produced one early master of classical riding: William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle, who was a Royalist living in exile until the restoration of King Charles II. During his exile, Cavendish opened a riding school in Belgium and wrote the present work, La Méthode et Invention Nouvelle de Dresser les Chevaux. This text was the first of Cavendish's two important books on breeding and training horses, and was translated into French from his English manuscript and published in Antwerp in two issues: 1657 and 1658, though many of the 1657 title-pages have been altered by hand to read 1658. The first printing was largely incinerated by a fire in the bookseller's shop and is all but impossible to acquire. [Brunet] Offered here is the deluxe large paper issue of the second edition of Cavendish's first book, a work long cherished by bibliophiles for its typographical excellence and the masterful quality of its illustrations. It is a work that has been esteemed by countless generations of horsemen and revered by such master riders as La Guérinière, Comte d'Aure, and Steinbrecht. It is a landmark of equestrianism. [Steinkraus] Cavendish's book has been called the only really outstanding work on the subject written by an Englishman. [Toole-Stott] In it Cavendish discusses a wide variety of equine subjects, including the recognition of the age and disposition of a horse; the characteristics of various types of horses, such as the Spanish, the Barb, the English horse, and the Arabian; methods of maintenance; and instructions on proper riding: "You must in all Airs follow the strength, spirit, and disposition of the horse, and do nothing against nature; for art is but to set nature in order, and nothing else." Of the 43 wonderful double-page engraved plates after Abraham van Diepenbeke, 24 depict the multiple stages Cavendish and his assistant Captain Mazin employed in training horses in complicated maneuvers. The quality of the impressions in the present 1737 edition surpasses even those of the original edition. [Steinkraus] This was the first edition of La Méthode et Invention Nouvelle de Dresser les Chevaux to be published in England, with engravings pulled from the original 1658 copperplates, which were acquired by the publisher Jean Brindley. Brunet I, 1700. Graesse II, 93. Huth 23. Lowndes 1663. Mennessier de la Lance II, p. 250. Nissen ZBI 848. Podeschi, Mellon Books on the Horse and Horsemanship, pp. 26, 49. Ramsay, "Early Dressage Literature to 1800," IOBA, 6.9.03. Steinkraus, Introduction to A General System of Horsemanship, 2000. Toole-Stott, Circus and the Allied Arts: A World Bibliography 84. Wing N884-87.
Published by Chez Jean Brindley, Libraire de S. A. R. Monseigeur le Prince de Galles, dans New Bond-street, London, 1737
Seller: Donald A. Heald Rare Books (ABAA), New York, NY, U.S.A.
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Folio. (17 7/8 x 11 1/4 inches). Complete second edition. 43 double-page engravings after Abraham van Diepenbeke including 42 numbered 1-42, and the unnumbered 1658 title with Anvers imprint. Engraved head-piece to first dedication. Numerous woodcut illustrations throughout the text, and woodcut historiated and inhabited initials, head- and tail-pieces, and printer's ornaments. [12] [1]-236. 248 pp. Letterpress title with London imprint and four dedications to Henriette Cavendishe-Holles, the King of Grande-Bretagne, Charles Vicomte de Mansfield, and to Cavaliers. Avertissement, avant-propos, four livres plus an Abbrege de la Cavalerie, conclusion, additions, table des chapitres. Text in French. Contemporary brown full morocco paneled blind with gilt filets on board edges and gilt dentelles, seven raised bands forming eight compartments on a richly gilt spine, with gilt-lettered red morocco titling-pieces in second and third compartments and gilt foliate tooling in rest, marbled endpapers, on laid paper, all edges gilt Cavendish's classic 1737 treatise on equestrianism, with 43 splendid double-page engravings: "The illustrations are among the most beautiful to ever grace equestrian literature." [Ramsay] Though considered a country of horse lovers, England only produced one early master of classical riding: William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle, who was a Royalist living in exile until the restoration of King Charles II. During his exile, Cavendish opened a riding school in Belgium and wrote the present work, La Méthode et Invention Nouvelle de Dresser les Chevaux. This text was the first of Cavendish's two important books on breeding and training horses, and was translated into French from his English manuscript and published in Antwerp in two issues: 1657 and 1658, though many of the 1657 title-pages have been altered by hand to read 1658. The first printing was largely incinerated by a fire in the bookseller's shop and is all but impossible to acquire. [Brunet] Offered here is the second edition of Cavendish's first book, a work long cherished by bibliophiles for its typographical excellence and the masterful quality of its illustrations. It is a work that has been esteemed by countless generations of horsemen and revered by such master riders as La Guérinière, Comte d'Aure, and Steinbrecht. It is a landmark of equestrianism. [Steinkraus] Cavendish's book has been called the only really outstanding work on the subject written by an Englishman. [Toole-Stott] In it Cavendish discusses a wide variety of equine subjects, including the recognition of the age and disposition of a horse; the characteristics of various types of horses, such as the Spanish, the Barb, the English horse, and the Arabian; methods of maintenance; and instructions on proper riding: "You must in all Airs follow the strength, spirit, and disposition of the horse, and do nothing against nature; for art is but to set nature in order, and nothing else." Of the 43 wonderful double-page engraved plates after Abraham van Diepenbeke, 24 depict the multiple stages Cavendish and his assistant Captain Mazin employed in training horses in complicated maneuvers. The quality of the impressions in the present 1737 edition surpasses even those of the original edition. [Steinkraus] This was the first edition of La Méthode et Invention Nouvelle de Dresser les Chevaux to be published in England, with engravings pulled from the original 1658 copperplates, which were acquired by the publisher Jean Brindley. Brunet I, 1700. Graesse II, 93. Huth 23. Lowndes 1663. Mennessier de la Lance II, p. 250. Nissen ZBI 848. Podeschi, Mellon Books on the Horse and Horsemanship, pp. 26, 49. Ramsay, "Early Dressage Literature to 1800," IOBA, 6.9.03. Steinkraus, Introduction to A General System of Horsemanship, 2000. Toole-Stott, Circus and the Allied Arts: A World Bibliography 84. Wing N884-87.
Published by Chez Jean Brindley, Libraire de S.A.R. Monseigneur de Galles, dans New Bond-street., London., 1737
First Edition
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.