SOLLEYSEL. Le Parfait maréchal, qui enseigne à connoître la beauté, la bonté et les défauts des chevaux, les signes & les causes des maladies ; les moyens de les prévenir ; leur guérison, le bon ou mauvais usage de la Purgation & de la Saignée (...). Paris, Didot, Nyon, Damonneville, Savoye, 1754. 2 parts in vol. in-, marbled calf, spine ribbed and decorated (Ep. binding). Mennessier de La Lance, II, 526. New edition of this famous treatise, first published in 1664. It includes an "Abrégé de l'art de monter à cheval", and is illustrated with a frontispiece, 2 folding plates and 30 woodcut figures in the text at the end of the second part. Rubbing, light spotting, tear to one spine and marginal loss on the first cover. Ex-libris crossed out on title page. Old scotch tape restoration, II, p. 15.