Le nouveau parfait maréchal ou La connoissance générale et universelle du cheval [...]. Avec un dictionnaire des termes de cavalerie; le tout enrichi de 50 figures en taille-douce [...]. Septième édition.

4to; portrait and 49 pl. (sl. dampstaining to first and last ff., with mouldy spots on half title and portrait, occ. staining or soiling, very occ. foxing, sm. hole in pl. n. 1 p. 430).

Mod. marbled sheep, gilt-orn. spine with raised bands, red edges (very sl. rubbed, staining on spine). Good inside condition.

Reference work (1st 1741) on hippology by "le capitaine des haras de France" Garsault (1693-1778). Ill. with the author's portrait and 49 engr. pl. (of which some fold.) after drawings by the author: 29 concerning horses (anatomy, horse bits, groom/stable boys, farrier's instruments, etc.) and 20 concerning medicinal plants "servant à soigner les cheveaux" (complete).
Ref. Not in Mennessier de La Lance II:526, Dejager 297 (other ed.).
Prov. Augustin Eugène Letard de La Bouralière (1838-1908), historian, President of the Société des antiquaires de l'Ouest and the Société des archives historiques du Poitou (arm. bookpl.).