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Corte, Claudio
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
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Description
- The art of Riding, conteining diverse necessarie instructions, demonstrations, helps, and corrections apperteining to horssemanship, not heretofore expressed by anie other author:... London: H. Denham, 1584
- paper, ink, leather
4to (182 x 130 mm). Full-page woodcuts depicting the designs for riding rings; faint stray spots to a few leaves. Red gilt morocco by Rivière; joints repaired.
Literature
STC 5797; Mellon/Podeschi 11
Catalogue Note
first edition. Rare. This English translation of Il Cavalerizzo, 1573, by T. Bedingfield, has appeared at auction less than six times since 1933.