Perfette regole, et modi di caualcare

Palmieri, Lorenzino · 1625 · In Venetia : Appresso Barezeo Barezzi. Ad istanza di Paolo Frambotto libraro in Padoua · 15 pictures

A 1625 Italian treatise on horsemanship and horse care, printed in Venice by Barezzo Barezzi for the Padua bookseller Paolo Frambotto, and written by Lorenzino Palmieri for riders and horse owners. Its pictures are small woodcut initials, each framed in dense, scrolling acanthus foliage with a figure or ornament within, offering a designer models of compact, heavily worked letterforms.

Horsemanship · Horses · Horsemanship -- Early works to 1800 · Horses -- Diseases -- Early works to 1800 · Veterinary medicine -- Early works to 1800 · Horses -- Diseases · Veterinary medicine

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