CAVENDISH (William, Duke of Newcastle). A General System of Horsemanship in all it's Branches: containing a faithful translation of that most noble and useful work of his Grace William Cavendish. Entitled, The manner of feeding, dressing and training of horses...1743

London: Printed for J. Brindley, First English edition, 2 vols., bound in one, folio (460 x 285 mm), half title, viii, [11]-142, [4, index]; [6], 138, [14, index]pp., preface leaf (pages 3-4) misbound in volume 2, half title and letterpress title page creased, additional double-page engraved title in French (imprint Antwerp, Jacques van Meurs, 1658), 42 double-page engraved equestrian plates (plate 31 loose, perhaps inserted, small surface smudge on plate 11), 20 engraved anatomical, equipment and veterinary plates in part 2 (12 printed in bistre, 2 double-page), engraved vignettes and historiated initials, woodcut diagrams in the text, some occasional light browning, additional ink numeral on a few plates in second volume, nineteenth-century full calf, original red morocco spine label laid-down, some scuffs and ink stains to lower cover, rubbed. First and only edition of the translation into English of the Duke of Newcastle's important treatise on horsemanship and equestrianism. The second volume comprises The Perfect Knowledge of Horses, the first appearance in English of Gaspard de Saunier's Parfaite connoissance des chevaux, which was first published in 1734. Provenance: D. Mahon, 1 Jan. 1826, ownership inscription on the half-title. Podeschi 49; Dejager, 146, Huth, 23; Mennessier II, p.150.