Horseback riding - Lot 700

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Horseback riding - Lot 700
Horseback riding PLUVINEL (Antoine, de) The Introduction of the King in the Exercise of Riding. The one who responds to his majesty makes him notice the excellence of his method to reduce the horses in a short time to the obedience of the right proportions of all the most beautiful airs of maneiges. The whole enriched with figures in intaglio Paris, Rocolet, 1627. In folio : 6f. (including allegorical portrait of Louis XIII, portrait of Mr de Charnizay and Mr de Pluvinel), 58 double-page plates (52 tables and 6 of jaws) after the drawings of Crispin de Passe, and 6 engravings of horses added in the work. The paintings are surrounded by frames of columns and porticoes surmounted by the royal arms. Contemporary speckled tan calf, spine ribbed, small irons in the inter-ribs, gilt filets, gilt filets frame on the boards, fleurons at the corners, large central diamond-shaped motif formed of scrolls, arabesques and gilt foliage, closing by green laces, gilt edges. Nice copy in contemporary binding. Second edition (the original appeared in 1623) of one of the most famous treatise of horsemanship of old France. These animated plates represent Antoine de Pluvinel teaching the equestrian art to the great ones of the Court. King Louis XIII himself appears on several engravings, as well as Roger de Bellegarde or Bellou, the King's great equerry. Antoine de Pluvinel, trained in the equestrian arts in Italy by Pignatelli. Appointed first squire to the King's brother (the future Henry III), he introduced the equestrian methods of the peninsula to France. Maintained in his functions under Henri IV, he was authorized to found his own riding academy. Adept of a new method of training (the softening rather than the constraint), Antoine de Pluvinel tries to make the horse work "the brain more than the kidneys or the legs" (Brunet IV, 749).
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