Pluvinel, Antoine de and Charnizay, René de Menou,... Lot 35

Pluvinel, Antoine de and Charnizay, René de Menou, sieur de. - L'Ecuyer françois contenant l'exercice de monter à cheval ensemble le manège royal. Paris, Estienne Loyson 1671. 1 vol. in-12 bound in brown calf - Boards, spine and spinebands damaged, corners pierced, folding plates rolled, old stains on the first pages - 2 ff. 367 pp. 6 folding plates, folding portrait of René de Menou, sieur de Charnizay. Handwritten bookplate Briandet 1791. Antique reprint in in-12 format of this great classic of horsemanship first published in 1623 in in-4° format.