La parfaite connoissance des chevaux, leur anatomie, leurs bonnes & mauvaises qualitez, leurs maladies & les remèdes qui y conviennent [ed. Gaspard de Saunier].

Folio: [8]-256-[8] pp. (upper blank margin title cut off, portr. & title browned & dusty, some marg. dampstaining at beginning and end, some soiling on pl., some tears in index pp. repaired).

Contemp. half sheep, tree marbl. paper over boards, gilt flat spine, brown leather title label, marbl. endpapers (rubbed, corners bumped, sm. def. on head & tail). Good copy.

First edition of a classic treatise on horse medicine by G. de Saunier (1663-1748), equerry of the Duke de Lude. Engr. ill.: vignette on title, arms of dedicatees as headpiece, full-page portrait of G. de Saunier by D. Coster and 61 full-page plates by various artists, including 43 anatomical plates. Title in red and black. Ink ms. Dutch note on verso pl. 50 (remedy for horse disease).
Ref. Dejager 293. - Mennessier II:40. - Nissen (ZBI) 3592. - STCN (i.a. BL).