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LAFOSSE, Philippe Étienne.
Cours d'Hippiatrique, ou Traité Complet de la Médecin des Chevaux,
Orné de Soixante & cinq planches gravées avec soin.
First edition of this celebrated work of animal anatomy. Lafosse had considerable anatomical skill, coupled with a profound knowledge of horses and equitation, and his work ranks with Stubbs in the artistic realization of equine anatomy. The plates are rendered with great skill by B. Michel Adam [femme Fessard], F. A. Aveline, C. Baquoy, Benard, Ch. Beulier, L. Bosse, Prevost and others after Harguinier, Lafosse and Saullier.
Folio (503 × 335 mm), in three parts. Contemporary calf, skilfully rebacked to style with gilt spine retaining old morocco label, marbled endpapers, edges stained red. Engraved frontispiece and engraved frontispiece portrait, with 56 hand-coloured plates, engraved title vignette and headpieces. Skilful leather restoration to board edges, some waterstaining at upper and lower inner corners at end (from 5B to end), still a very good copy.
