NEWCASTLE, William Cavendish, Duke of.- Methode et invention nouvelle de dresser les chevaux par le

NEWCASTLE, William Cavendish, Duke of.- Methode et invention nouvelle de dresser les chevaux par le Tres-Noble, Haut, et Tres-Puissant Prince Guillaume Marquis et Comte de Newcastle [...] Oeuvre auquel on apprend à travailler les chevaux selon la nature, & à parfaire la nature par la subtilité de l’art: traduit de l’Anglois de l’Auteur, par son commandement; & enrichi de plus de quarante belles figures en taille douce.- Seconde edition.- A Londres: Chez Jean Brindley, MDCCXXXVII. [1737].- IV, [8], 236 p.: 1 portada dupla gravada, 42 gravuras duplas, il.; 46 cm.- E., William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle (1592-1676), politician and military man, born in Yorkshire (United Kingdom), became famous as a riding master and author of treatises on equestrian art. This is the second edition, with better graphic quality, as it was printed on higher quality paper. It preserves the double frontispiece of the first edition (in the variant dated 1658), with the following imprint: A Anvers Chez Iacques van Meurs l’an M. DC. LVIII. Engraving 16 with restored central tear, without missing support; stain on the outside margin of the last seven leaves. Otherwise, a lightly handled, but generally clean copy, retaining all the engravings mounted on guards. It includes, glued to the free endpaper, a page with an inscription offering, in French (10 lines), to an unidentified general, initialed (illegible) and undated (circa 1800). Full sheepskin binding, a little later (19th century?), with gilt roll on the squares and the spine a little worn; edge gilt. Complete copy, strictly corresponding to Mennessier's description of La Lance (II, p. 248).