Lot N. 226
Observations et Dècouvertes sur des Chevaux avec nouvelle pratique sur la Ferrure par le Sieur Lafose Marèchal del petites Ecurier du Roi
Printed in Paris by Hocherau le Jeune, on the Quai des Augustins at the corner of Rue Gît-le-Cœur, at Saint François, 1754.
Octavo-folio volume, original leather binding with raised bands and gilt lettering on the spine. Printer’s device on the title page, decorative headpieces, some wormholes, and a few pages partially detached.
Richly illustrated with folding copperplate engravings, larger than the volume, depicting horseshoes and horse tack. The work is a French-language treatise on observations and discoveries concerning a new practice of the art of horseshoeing.
A complete and uncommon edition.