| Item Description: | Michael Laird, bookseller, description: Small 4to. Full brown morocco by Brugalla (1948), elaborately gilt. [6] ff., 112 ff. Large vignette on title and 64 full-page woodcuts, woodcut colophon representing a horse. The first Latin edition ("Hippiatria sive Marescalia") seems to have been printed in Rome by Eucharius Silber around 1490; this is one of the earliest printed books on farriery and the veterinary art. The first French translation was printed in Paris by Chrestien Wechel (1532-1533). The treatise of the Italian horse-master Lorenzo Rusio (1288-1347) was composed well before the invention of the printing press, and was long spread throughout Europe in manuscript. The present edition has 64 full-page woodcuts of various types of bits, and a large depiction in woodcut of a horse on the colophon. The illustrator's initials "HSP" are those of Hans Sebald Beham. Ruse's work informed and inspired equestrian veterinarians for hundreds of years. From the library of Isidore Fernandez, with his large ex-libris inside and outside the covers. His library was dispersed by Christie's in 2013. In MS Fernández indicates previous provenance information: Porter, 2/19/52 and Brugalla, 6/18/52. Emilio Brugalla (1901 - 1987) was one of the masters of modern Spanish binding. Discrete restoration in the margin of the first and second leaf. Mennessier of Lance II, p. 469. Not in Krivatsy or Wellcome. |
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