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[Horses] - CAVENDISH, William, Duke of Newcas

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[Horses] - CAVENDISH, William, Duke of Newcas
[Horses] - CAVENDISH, William, Duke of Newcastle - Methode nouvelle de dresser les chevaux [trsl. from the English] (engraved title: La methode nouvelle & Invention extraordinaire de dresser les chevaux, les travailler selon la nature et parfaire la nature par la subtilité de l'art...). Antwerp, Jacques van Meurs, 1658, folio, blindstamped calf (19th c. ?), elaborately gilt spine on 7 raised bands, gilt title, old marbled endpapers, silk marker, [28]-271-[33] pp. (paper age discoloured, traces of use and small tears in engr. plates underlaid, some centerfolds splitting, Pl. 23 split). Good large and complete copy. € 3500/5000 The very rare original edition of a fundamental work on the training of horses, by William Cavendish, duke of Newcastle (1592-1676), governor of Charles II when Prince of Wales, and a notable royalist. Complete copy including the often missing plates of the Duke (then Marquis) and his family, and his equestrian portrait. Also with views of Welbeck, Ogle and other places in Derbyshire and Northumberland. Ill. with double-page engr. front. by Abraham a Diepenbeke after Petrus de Iode and 42 fine double-page engr. plates after Abr. a Diepenbeke (some cracks in folds, some margins strengthened); plate 5 is a fine equestrian portrait of Charles II, with a view of London showing Old St. Paul's and London Bridge; 50 woodcut diagrams in text. Provenance: on top of printed title "Ce livre apartien a dalain de Montaigu escuyer de Son altesse royalle de Lorraine, a nancy le 30me Septembre 1700" and "Le prince l'a acheté et payé 80. fl. (...)", on last page "d'alain de montaigu pere (...)". The copy was in the library of the Prince de Lorraine from the early 18th c. onwards (old armorial bookplate on front endpaper): hence this is probably Charles de Lorraine's copy. (photo from sales catalogue added). Lithograph bookplate of Maur. de Smet de Naeyer. *** Très rare édition originale de cet ouvrage fondamental. Ex. complet de toutes les planches, provenant de la bibliothèque de Charles de Lorraine. Ref. Mennessier de la Lance, Bibl. hippique II p. 246: "...ces planches ont une véritable valeur artistique ... Cette 1re éd. est rarissime ... elle n'aurait été tirée qu'à 50 ex. ... Brunet donne une autre version ... Il semble probable que l'ouvrage fut tiré à un petit nombre mais toutefois à plus de 50 et qu'une partie de l'éd. disparut dans l'incendie. Quelle que soit l'explication admise, on comprend que le Newcastle de 1657 soit de la plus grande rareté." Paul Mellon collection no. 26. BN Paris (1). NUC (1). Not in Goldsmith (BL London)! Not in Matagne (Namur).
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