La pratique du caualier, ou, L'exercice de monter a cheual : qui enseigne la methode de reduire les cheuaux dans l'obeissance des plus beaux airs & maneiges / par Messire René de Menou, cheualier, seigneur de Charnizay ; reueu, corrigé et augmenté par luy-mesme ; auec les figures, pour en donner l'intelligence ; ensemble vn traité des moyens d'empescher les duels, & bannir les vices qui les causent.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Menou, René de, sieur de Charnizay, 1578-1651.

Contributor:

Chauveau, François, 1613-1676.

Fairman Rogers Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Horsemanship--Early works to 1800.

Horsemanship.

Horses--Early works to 1800.

Horses.

Dueling--Early works to 1800.

Dueling.

Genre:

engravings (prints)

Early works.

Penn Provenance:

Rothschild, James, baron de, 1844-1881 (bookplate) (Fairman Rogers copy)

Astley, John (inscription) (Fairman Rogers copy)

Cháron, Mademoiselle de (inscription) (Fairman Rogers copy)

Physical Description:

20 unnumbered pages, 245, that is, 225 pages, 7 unnumbered pages, 5 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Pratique du caualier

Exercice de monter a cheual

Pratique du cavalier

Exercice de monter a cheval

Place of Publication:

A Paris : Chez Guillaume Loyson ... et Iean Baptiste Loyson ..., 1650.

Notes:

Signatures: pi¹⁰ A-2D⁴ 2E⁸.

Errors in pagination. Page numbers 80-89 and 123-132 omitted in sequence.

Leaf E2 missigned C2.

Added engraved t.p.

Each part has a folding full page engr. plate.

Woodcuts: initials; head- and tail-pieces.

Local Notes:

Fairman Rogers copy: Newspaper clipping with picture, and mentioning Baron Eugene de Rothschild has the host of Edward Duque of Windsor, pasted on front free endpaper.

Cited in:

Fox, C.G. The Fairman Rogers Coll. on the horse and equitation, 536

Other Format:

Online version: Menou, René de, sieur de Charnizay, 1578-1651. Pratique du caualier, ou, L'exercice de monter a cheual.

OCLC:

77846578