DELCAMPE. L'Art de monter à cheval, pour élever la noblesse - Lot 126

DELCAMPE. L'Art de monter à cheval, pour élever la noblesse dans les plus beaux airs du manège. New edition. [Followed by:] BEAUREPER, Sieur de [Samuel Fouquet de Beaurepaire]. Traité des remèdes les plus utiles et nécessaires pour la guérison des Chevaux. Revu et augmenté en cette nouvelle édition. Paris, Nicolas Le Gras, 1691. 2 parts in one volume in-12, contemporary brown basane, spine ribbed and decorated. (2) ff. 208 pp.; 96 pp. (2) ff. Rubbing and wear, head cap damaged. 5 folded plates (including frontispiece) engraved by Gabriel Ladame. "Delcampe's equitation principles are slightly better than those of Pluvinel and especially Newcastle. His methods are simpler, and he keeps his horses straighter and in less artificial action. Fouquet de Beaurepaire, author of the Remèdes section, is said to have taken an important part in L'Art de monter à cheval by Delcampe, of whom he was a friend. Mennessier de la Lance, I, 376. From the Paul Couturier de Royas library, with ex libris vignette.