Libro della natura delli caualli : et del modo di releuarli, medicarli & domarli & cognoscerli : et q[ua]li sono boni : et del modo de farli perfetti : et trarli dalli vicij li quali sono viciati : et del modo de ferrarli bene & mantenerli in possanza & gagliardi : et de qual sorte morfi a loro si conuiene secondo le nature e vicij o qualita di quelli : li quali sono tutti historiati in questo &c. : item simelmente tratta della natura di releuar, medicar, gouernar & mantenir sparauieri, astori, falconi & simili &c.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | Italian |
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Stampato in Vinegia :
Per Francesco Bindoni & Mapheo Pasini compagni,
1544 adi. 4 del mese de Genaro [1544 January 4]
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| Item Description: | Imprint from colophon. Printed in gothic type, in two columns. Woodcuts: large title vignette (84 x 80 mm) illustrating the legend of St. Eligius healing a possessed horse by amputating and re-attaching his foreleg; ornamental white inital (S) on black criblé background; another vignette (52 x 80 mm) at head of chapter on caring for hawks and falcons; 78 additional woodcuts of bridle-bits (first 20 unnumbered pages); Bindoni-Pasini device of the archangel Raphael, patron saint of Venice, and his travelling companion, the young Tobias, who holds the fish that cured his father's blindness, and freed Sarah from evil spirits, accompanied by Tobias' dog. Signatures: A-F⁸ [G]⁸. |
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| Physical Description: | 43 leaves, 25 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 15 cm |