Grisone, Ordini di cavalcare, Venice, 1571, old vellum

Grisone, Federico

Ordini di cavalcare, et modi di conoscere le nature de' cavalli... di nuovo migliorati, & accresciuti di postille, & di tavola. Venice: Giovanni Andrea Valvassori, 1571

2 parts in one volume, 4to (197 x 140mm.), woodcut device on title-pages, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, woodcut illustrations (mostly of bits and bridles), eighteenth-century vellum, lacking k1, occasional light staining or foxing

Grisone’s work on horsemanship was first published in 1550 and is one of the most important works on equitation of its time.

PROVENANCE

unidentified armorial bookplate

LITERATURE

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