La perfettione del cavallo libri tre di Francesco Liberati romano. Nel primo si tratta del mantenimento del cavallo, e delle osservationi circa la generatione, e buon governo di esso. Nel secondo si discorre delle sue infermità , e cure. Nel terzo si dimostrano le qualità delle razze antiche, e moderne, de' merchi, e della natura de' cavalli italiani, e stranieri

4to (214x153 mm). [12], 223 [i.e. 227], [1] pp. and 1 engraved folding plate showing a horse with the points of illness delineated. Pages 141-144 repeated in pagination. Collation: [π]² a⁴ A-R⁴ S⁶ T-Ee⁴. Woodcut arms of the dedicatee, Giovanni Battista Borghese, on the title page. Title page and pages 133-223, which contain 364 woodcut horse brands (4 per page) with explanations, are framed with a typographic border. Printer's device on final leaf verso. Modern vellum. Small hole to inner margin of l. A1 not affecting the text, a few tears to the plate along the folding, slightly browned, some marginal foxing.

Second revised and augmented edition (first Rome, 1639), dedicated by the author to Giovanni Battista Borghese from Rome, August 10, 1669, of this comprehensive treatise on horse and horsemanship, which deals with the management and illnesses of the horse and, for the first time in this edition, contains at the end a complete illustrated catalogue of the horse brands of most notable Italian families.

Italian Union Catalogue, IT\ICCU\BVEE\033340; Piantanida, 141; Cicognara, 4610; Olschki, Choix, 370.

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