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BOOKS FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE EARLS OF HADDINGTON, LOTS 54-108

Pluvinel | L'instruction du roy, en l'exercice de monter a cheval, 1629

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November 12, 04:34 PM GMT

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BOOKS FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE EARLS OF HADDINGTON, LOTS 54-108


PLUVINEL, ANTOINE DE

L’instruction du roy, en l’exercice de monter a cheval. Paris: Ruette, 1629


Folio (372 x 245mm.), double-page engraved additional title, 4 engraved portraits, 54 engraved plates (only, of 57), text in French and German eighteenth-century, mottled calf, lacks 3 plates, one plate defective, rubbed, extremities worn


PROVENANCE:

Thomas Hamilton (1721–1794), 7th Earl of Haddington, engraved armorial bookplate