CORTE, Claudio. Il cauallerizzo...nel qual si tratta della natura de' caualli, delle razze, del modo di gouernarli, domarli, & frenarli. Et di tutto quello, che à caualli, & à buon cauallerizzo s'appartiene. Venice, appresso Giordano Ziletti, 1573.
4to. 160ff. Woodcut device on title-page, 4 illustrations in the text, one full-page, a few top and bottom margins with light blue stains owing to the earlier blue staining of the edges, in mid-nineteenth century maroon half calf, gilt spine, gilt edges.
Second, enlarged, edition of Corte's exhaustive treatise on every aspect of the horse. The second part was translated into English by Thomas Bedingfield in 1584. Bookplate of the Marques de Torrecilla.
Censimento C6848; Adams C2701; Cockle 709.
£650
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