[EQUITATION]. LA GUÉRINIÈRE (François Robichon de). ÉCOLE DE - Lot 51

[EQUITATION]. LA GUÉRINIÈRE (François Robichon de). ÉCOLE DE CAVALERIE containing the knowledge, instruction, and conservation of the horse. Paris, Collombat, 1733. Three parts bound in one volume in-folio, brown granite calf, spine ribbed and decorated, edges spotted in red (contemporary binding); (5) ff. including frontispiece and title, 276 pages, (4) ff. of table, 23/24 plates hors-texte (MISSING the double plate page 166). A very faded copy: binding rubbed, spine gilt tarnished, tears, wetness, stains, small tears. FIRST EDITION IN FOLIO FORMAT of one of the most beautiful works on the horse that has appeared in France. A FRONTISPICE and 23/24 full-page or off-text plates (2/3 of which are double-page), most of them by Parrocel, 3 vignettes on the head and a large cul-de-lampe "aux singes". As is. ¶ Mennessier de La Lance, II, 27: "Paper, type, everything is irreproachable and the beautiful plates by Parrocel give it a particular value. " - Cohen, 587.