EISENBERG, Friedrich Wilhelm, Baron (c.1685-c.1764). Wohleingerichtete Reitschule, oder Beschreibung der allerneüsten Reitkunst [ Description du manége moderne ]. Basel: Daniel Eckenstein for David Herrliberger 1748. Oblong 2° (250 x 378mm). Engraved frontispiece in French and 57 plates by Herrliberger after Bernard Picart (Faint dampstain, some light spotting mainly to text.) Contemporary half vellum (extremities rubbed, some staining).
EISENBERG, Friedrich Wilhelm, Baron (c.1685-c.1764). Wohleingerichtete Reitschule, oder Beschreibung der allerneüsten Reitkunst [ Description du manége moderne ]. Basel: Daniel Eckenstein for David Herrliberger 1748. Oblong 2° (250 x 378mm). Engraved frontispiece in French and 57 plates by Herrliberger after Bernard Picart (Faint dampstain, some light spotting mainly to text.) Contemporary half vellum (extremities rubbed, some staining). An early (probably second) edition in German of this classic, richly illustrated work on horsemanship, which includes the dictionary of terms published separately at Amsterdam the previous year. The author, a German horseman and artist, spent some of his youth at the manège of Saxe-Weimar before entering into the service of the Emperor. He then spent six years in Naples as the Master of Horse of the Viceroy before returning to Vienna where he studied under M. de Regenthal, the imperial Master of Horse. Brunet II, 957; Mennessier de la Lance I, p. 438.
EISENBERG, Friedrich Wilhelm, Baron (c.1685-c.1764). Wohleingerichtete Reitschule, oder Beschreibung der allerneüsten Reitkunst [ Description du manége moderne ]. Basel: Daniel Eckenstein for David Herrliberger 1748. Oblong 2° (250 x 378mm). Engraved frontispiece in French and 57 plates by Herrliberger after Bernard Picart (Faint dampstain, some light spotting mainly to text.) Contemporary half vellum (extremities rubbed, some staining).
EISENBERG, Friedrich Wilhelm, Baron (c.1685-c.1764). Wohleingerichtete Reitschule, oder Beschreibung der allerneüsten Reitkunst [ Description du manége moderne ]. Basel: Daniel Eckenstein for David Herrliberger 1748. Oblong 2° (250 x 378mm). Engraved frontispiece in French and 57 plates by Herrliberger after Bernard Picart (Faint dampstain, some light spotting mainly to text.) Contemporary half vellum (extremities rubbed, some staining). An early (probably second) edition in German of this classic, richly illustrated work on horsemanship, which includes the dictionary of terms published separately at Amsterdam the previous year. The author, a German horseman and artist, spent some of his youth at the manège of Saxe-Weimar before entering into the service of the Emperor. He then spent six years in Naples as the Master of Horse of the Viceroy before returning to Vienna where he studied under M. de Regenthal, the imperial Master of Horse. Brunet II, 957; Mennessier de la Lance I, p. 438.
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