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Manual of horse riding and breeding Arabian horses

MARKHAM, Gervase.
Cavalarice, or the English horseman: ... Newly imprinted, corrected & augmented, with many worthy secrects not before knowne.
(title-page second part: London, Edward Allde for Adward White, 1616)-1617. 8 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With the title of each part printed within the same decorative woodcut border, numerous woodcut illustrations in text. Contemporary calf, rebacked, preserving original spine label. [16], 88; [4], 264 (=244); [4], 84; [4], 57, [1 blank]; [4], 58; [4], 67, [1 blank]; [4], 86; [4], 37, [1 blank] pp.
€ 35,000
Second edition of an important manual of riding, breeding, hunting, farriery and veterinary matters, by one of the earliest western owners of, and dealers in, Arabian horses: the English writer and poet Gervase Markham (1568-1637). Markham praises the virtues of Turkish and Barb horses in particular: "They are to be knowne before all horses by the finenesse of their proportions, especially their heades and necks, which nature hath so well shap'd, and plac'd, that they commonly save art his greatest labour: they are swift beyond other forraigne horses, and to that use in England we only imploy them [...]". Besides the breeding of these horses, Markham gives information on saddles and bits, etc., as well as numerous cures for horse ailments.
With bookblate and several owner's inscriptions. First quire detached from bookblock, browned, marginal waterstains, some occasional spots or smudges and a few wormholes in some of the last quires. Binding slightly rubbed along the extremities. In good condition ESTC S112112; Poynter 19.2; cf. Dejager 137; Huth 15; Podeschi 18.
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