FUGGER, Marx, Freiherr von Kirchberg und Weissenhorn (1529-97). Von der Gestüterey . Frankfurt: Martin Lechler for Sigmund Feyrabend, 1584. 2° (320 x 197mm). Title printed in red and black. Woodcut title vignette, woodcut of Fugger's arms opening address to the reader, 38 woodcut illustrations, comprising 41 woodcuts from 33 blocks by Jost Amman and publisher's device at end, woodcut initials. Gothic type. With final blank i6. (Light browning and marginal dampstaining, some unobtrusive worming, title and a few leaves with neatly repaired, generally marginal, tears, one leaf inkmarked.) Late 20th-century boards, gilt morocco lettering-piece (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance : late 16th-/early 17th-century German marginal annotations. SECOND EDITION, THE FIRST ILLUSTRATED, AND THE FIRST GERMAN WORK ON HORSEMANSHIP. This rare work on the care and breeding of horses by Marx Fugger, a member of the leading commercial and banking family, was the first to be written on the subject by a German, and was first published in 1578. This first illustrated edition was the last to be published during the author's lifetime. Its woodcuts by Amman, depicting horses both unmounted and ridden by men and women, first appeared in the Kunstbüchlein , Ritterliche Reitkunst and other works. Graesse II, p. 644; Huth p. 10; Lipperheide Tc12; New Hollstein German , Jost Amman Book Illustrations VIII, 211; Nissen ZBI 1461.
FUGGER, Marx, Freiherr von Kirchberg und Weissenhorn (1529-97). Von der Gestüterey . Frankfurt: Martin Lechler for Sigmund Feyrabend, 1584. 2° (320 x 197mm). Title printed in red and black. Woodcut title vignette, woodcut of Fugger's arms opening address to the reader, 38 woodcut illustrations, comprising 41 woodcuts from 33 blocks by Jost Amman and publisher's device at end, woodcut initials. Gothic type. With final blank i6. (Light browning and marginal dampstaining, some unobtrusive worming, title and a few leaves with neatly repaired, generally marginal, tears, one leaf inkmarked.) Late 20th-century boards, gilt morocco lettering-piece (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance : late 16th-/early 17th-century German marginal annotations. SECOND EDITION, THE FIRST ILLUSTRATED, AND THE FIRST GERMAN WORK ON HORSEMANSHIP. This rare work on the care and breeding of horses by Marx Fugger, a member of the leading commercial and banking family, was the first to be written on the subject by a German, and was first published in 1578. This first illustrated edition was the last to be published during the author's lifetime. Its woodcuts by Amman, depicting horses both unmounted and ridden by men and women, first appeared in the Kunstbüchlein , Ritterliche Reitkunst and other works. Graesse II, p. 644; Huth p. 10; Lipperheide Tc12; New Hollstein German , Jost Amman Book Illustrations VIII, 211; Nissen ZBI 1461.
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