Drummond de Melfort, Louis, comte, 1726-1788, Traité sur la cavalerie , MDCCLXXVI [1776]
- Title(s):
- Traité sur la cavalerie / par M. le Comte Drummond de Melfort, maréchal de camp ès armées du roi, & inspecteur-général des troupes-légeres.
- Published/Created:
- A Paris : De l'imprimerie de Guillaume Desprez, imprimeur ordinaire du Roi & du clergé de France, rue Saint-Jacques., MDCCLXXVI [1776]
- Physical Description:
- xxij, [2], 505, [3] p., [1], 11 leaves of plates (9 double) : ill. ; 43 cm. + atlas (XXXII double leaves of plates; 65 cm.)
- Holdings:
- Rare Books and ManuscriptsFolio B 2024 9Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon CollectionView by request in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - Copyright Status:
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/3432321
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- BEIN Folio 132: Text-plates bound in their proper places as indicated on p. [507], except plate 1 which is misbound after p. 72.
BEIN Folio 132: Bound in red morocco, gilt; text-volume, bound by Tiger, Paris, with arms of Étienne François duc de Choiseul-Stainville; atlas, unsigned, with arms of Fernando I, infante of Spain.
BEIN Folio 132: In manuscript on half-title of text-volume: "Dumas fils".
BEIN Folio 133: Another issue. 1776[-ca. 1789]
BEIN Folio 134: Atlas has its own t.-p.: Marches et évolutions de cavalerie, représentées en XXXII extampes ... Auxquelles on a joint XXII figures relatives à la pratique de l'équitation. A Paris, Chez Nyon l'aîné & fils, libraires, rue du Jardinet; Firmin Didot, libraire, rue Dauphine No. 116. [ca. 1789]. This t.-p. is followed by an index-leaf.
BEIN Folio 133: Collation of atlas: 2 p.l., 22 pl. on A-L l. [part double], XXXII double pl.
BEIN Folio 133: Text-plates bound at end of the text-volume.
Signatures: [a]-f² A-6B (incl. J and V)².
Atlas without t.-p. and index-leaf. In a later, variant state atlas has t.p. and index leaf.
Engravings by Remi-Henri-Joseph Delvaux, Charles François Adrien Macret, François Robert Ingouf, Elie Du Mesnil, Jean Baptiste Claude Chatelain, Charles Eugène Duponchel, Jean Charles Baquoy, Jean-Baptiste Patas and others; after Louis Nicolas van Blarenberghe and Nicolas-Gabriel Dupuis.
BAC: British Art Center copy text volume bound in gilt-tooled red morocco stamped with arms of Catherine the Great of Russia; atlas bound in gilt tooled red morocco with gilt stamped French ducal arms. - Subject Terms:
- Cavalry -- Early works to 1800.Desprez, Guillaume -- Publisher (BAC RB)Engraving -- Specimens -- 1776 (BAC RB)Horsemanship -- Pictorial works -- Early works to 1800.Horses -- Early works to 1800.Horses -- Pictorial works -- Early works to 1800.War horses -- Early works to 1800.
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