Ecole de Cavalerie. Contenant la Connoissance, l'instruction et la Conservation du Cheval. Avec figures en Taille-Douce

Francois Robichon de La Gueriniere; Jacques Collombat; Charles Parrocel; Laurent Cars; Jacques-Philippe Le Bas

Paris : Rue S. Jacques. De l'imprimerie de Jacques Collombat, premier imprimeur ordinaire du Roy, 1733

[The Art of the Horse] Folio, 44 x 29 cm (17 1/4 x 11 1/8 in). Bound in contemporary calf, with seven spine compartments.  Rebacked, new leather spine label. Corners bumped, worn.  Marbled end sheets. [viii], 276, [8] pp.; frontispiece, 23 plates (4 double-page), and 4 vignettes after Charles Parrocel and Coquart, engraved by Aveline and Tardieu. 13-14 p. has a marginal tear. A few scattered spots, but generally clean.  Some of the plates have old tape repairs.  The first folio edition and most desirable edition of this work (first issued in 16mo editions in 1729-1731, without Parrocel's illustratins). "L'edition in-folio est un des plus beaux ouvrages qui aient paru en France sur le cheval. Papier, caracteres, tout est irreprochable et les belles planches de Parrocel lui donnent une valeur particuliere." Mennessier de La Lance I, 27. Refs: Huth p. 31; Nissen, 2361; Podeschi 46.