Manoel Carlos de Andrade (c1755-1817) - photo 1
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Manoel Carlos de Andrade (c1755-1817)

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£ 7 000
Auction dateClassic
09.12.2020 00:00UTC +01:00
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CHRISTIE'S
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United Kingdom, London
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ID 470158
Lot 157 | Manoel Carlos de Andrade (c1755-1817)
Manoel Carlos de Andrade (c.1755-1817)

Luz da liberal, e Nobre Arte da Cavallaria. 1790

ANDRADE, Manoel Carlos de (c.1755-1817). Luz da liberal, e Nobre Arte da Cavallaria. Lisbon: Regia Officina Typographica, 1790.



A very large copy with wide margins of this handsome work on equestrianism. The plates depict every stage of the training of horses, and includes schematic floorplans, as well as the equipment required including bits and bridles. Most of the illustrations show courtiers of the day - identified in the explanatory text and by their armorials in the engravings - with their horses. 'One of the two most important works on the subject in the Portuguese language' (Koert van der Horst, Bibliotheca Hippologia Johan Dejager; Great Books on Horsemanship, p.489). Brunet I, 264 ('ouvrage bien exécuté'); Huth p.56.



2 parts in one volume, large quarto (352 x 250mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece of John VI of Portugal, 93 plates, 23 of which double-page, by Frois, Martini, M. Alegre, Martini, L. F. Piedra and Silva, after Silva, engraved title vignette and 2 engraved head-piece vignettes, 3 engraved historiated initials, woodcut tailpieces, blank leaf ****2 and errata leaf at end (70mm tear without loss to errata, quire Eee misbound after Ggg, occasional faint and insignificant spotting and browning). Contemporary polished calf, covers pannelled in gilt with various scroll and roll-tools, spine with raised bands in 6 compartments, two red morocco lettering-pieces, the others ornately gilt, top edge red, marbled endpapers, others uncut (repairs to lower portion of upper joint and lower edge of upper cover, extremities very lightly rubbed).

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