GALIBERTO, Giovanni Battista di.
Il cavallo da maneggio. Libro dove si tratta della nobilissima virtu del cavalcare, come il cavagliere deve star' à cavallo ...
Vienna, Giovan Giacomo Kyrner, 1650. Small folio (30 x 19.5 cm). Engraved frontispiece; engraved coat of arms on verso of title-page, apparently of the dedicatee King Ferdinand IV of Hungary and Bohemia, with the motto "Arte, Virtute et Marte"; 56 engravings (30 in the text and 26 printed on 14 leaves (1 double-page plate indicates the anatomical parts of the horse)), depicting horse training scenes, harnesses, bridles, spurs etc.; woodcut head- and tailpieces & initials. Contemporary vellum, each board with a central coat of arms (front and back different: probably both members of the family of the Habsburg Kings of Hungary & Bohemia, perhaps Ferdinand III or IV), gold-tooled ornamental triple borders and corner pieces, leather ties, gilt edges.
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