LAFOSSE (Philippe Étienne). Course of hippiatrics,... - Lot 139 - De Baecque et Associés

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LAFOSSE (Philippe Étienne). Course of hippiatrics,... - Lot 139 - De Baecque et Associés
LAFOSSE (Philippe Étienne). Course of hippiatrics, or Treatise on the medicine of horses. Paris, Edme, 1772. Strong volume in-folio, mute cardboard of the time, not trimmed. A TRUE MONUMENT TO HIPPOLOGY. Paper, printing, drawing, engraving are equally well done. (Menessier de La Lance II, 20). It opens with a beautiful engraved title, a portrait of Lafosse and offers 62 magnificent engravings, often folding, showing the horse under all its aspects, its anatomy, fittings, instruments and furniture of the forge, diseases, defects,... they are all due to Harguiniez. Spine missing and missing plates 34 and 46, there are 2 different numbered 44. Copy as issued, with very large margins and printed on strong paper, edges of engravings faded and soiled.
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