NEWCASTLE, William Cavendish, Duke of (1592-1676). Methode et invention nouvelle de dresser les chevaux . Antwerp: Jacques van Meurs, 1657-58.
NEWCASTLE, William Cavendish, Duke of (1592-1676). Methode et invention nouvelle de dresser les chevaux . Antwerp: Jacques van Meurs, 1657-58. 2 o (436 x 292mm). Mounted on guards throughout. Double-page engraved additional title and 42 plates by Peter de Jode and others after Abraham van Diepenbeeck, 50 wood-cut illustrations. (some dampstaining, heaviest to text, a few marginal splits and chips, a few of the early double-page plates misbound, but all present.) (Some dampstaining and browning, tear crossing text on E2.) Contemporary English blind-paneled calf, spine gilt (rebacked preserving original backstrip). Provenance : Thomas Seabright (armorial bookplate); acquired from Philip Hofer, 1963. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, OF THIS RARE AND FAMOUS WORK ON THE TRAINING OF HORSES. The Duke of Newcastle, a staunch royalist went into exile to Antwerp in 1644. Newcastle had bought a pair of Barbary horses in Paris and set up a stable for training his horses. Translated from his manuscript in English, it illustrates the riding school which, in spite of the loss of a vast fortune in England during the Civil War, he managed to build up at Antwerp where he was residing as an exile from the Commonwealth. Although showered with honors by Charles II at the Restoration, he retired to his estates in Derbyshire and devoted himself to literature, the breeding of horses and equitation. His manége near Bolsover still exists.This work, partly paid for by his friend Sir Hugh Cartwright, is a celebration of Dukes' horses and their training. The plates include five equestrian portraits, four of the author; five plates of his own horses; and 24 scenes showing horses being trained (most featuring the Duke, Captain Mazin and occasionally, a groom named Palfrenier). There are also two allegorical designs, in which the Duke is adored by a circle of reverential horses, and at the end a portrait of the Cavendish family. VERY RARE FIRST ISSUE, with printed title dated 1657 altered in ink to 1658. Brunet I, 1699; Graesse II:93; Lowndes VI:1663; Mellon, Books on the Horse and Horsemanship 26; Mennessier de la Lance II, p. 246.
NEWCASTLE, William Cavendish, Duke of (1592-1676). Methode et invention nouvelle de dresser les chevaux . Antwerp: Jacques van Meurs, 1657-58.
NEWCASTLE, William Cavendish, Duke of (1592-1676). Methode et invention nouvelle de dresser les chevaux . Antwerp: Jacques van Meurs, 1657-58. 2 o (436 x 292mm). Mounted on guards throughout. Double-page engraved additional title and 42 plates by Peter de Jode and others after Abraham van Diepenbeeck, 50 wood-cut illustrations. (some dampstaining, heaviest to text, a few marginal splits and chips, a few of the early double-page plates misbound, but all present.) (Some dampstaining and browning, tear crossing text on E2.) Contemporary English blind-paneled calf, spine gilt (rebacked preserving original backstrip). Provenance : Thomas Seabright (armorial bookplate); acquired from Philip Hofer, 1963. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, OF THIS RARE AND FAMOUS WORK ON THE TRAINING OF HORSES. The Duke of Newcastle, a staunch royalist went into exile to Antwerp in 1644. Newcastle had bought a pair of Barbary horses in Paris and set up a stable for training his horses. Translated from his manuscript in English, it illustrates the riding school which, in spite of the loss of a vast fortune in England during the Civil War, he managed to build up at Antwerp where he was residing as an exile from the Commonwealth. Although showered with honors by Charles II at the Restoration, he retired to his estates in Derbyshire and devoted himself to literature, the breeding of horses and equitation. His manége near Bolsover still exists.This work, partly paid for by his friend Sir Hugh Cartwright, is a celebration of Dukes' horses and their training. The plates include five equestrian portraits, four of the author; five plates of his own horses; and 24 scenes showing horses being trained (most featuring the Duke, Captain Mazin and occasionally, a groom named Palfrenier). There are also two allegorical designs, in which the Duke is adored by a circle of reverential horses, and at the end a portrait of the Cavendish family. VERY RARE FIRST ISSUE, with printed title dated 1657 altered in ink to 1658. Brunet I, 1699; Graesse II:93; Lowndes VI:1663; Mellon, Books on the Horse and Horsemanship 26; Mennessier de la Lance II, p. 246.
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