ANTÓNIO PEREIRA REGO - 1629-1692 Instruçam da cavallaria de brida REGO, António Pereira.- INSTRUÇAM | DA | CAVALLARIA | DE | BRIDA. | TRATADO UNICO. | DEDICADA | AO | INVICTO MARTYR S. JORGE | Tribuno da milicia Romana, defensor da Igreja | Catholica, antigo Patrão de Portugal. | [pequena gravura com uma cruz florenciada] | ... | COM HUM COPIOSO TRATADO DE ALVEITARIA.- Coimbra: Na Officina de Ioseph Ferreyta, 1679.- [24], 424, [5, 1 br.] p.: 1 gravura desdobr.; 20 cm.- E. Original edition. The author (1629-1692), was a native of Ponte de Lima and was Knight of the order of Christ. The Comprehensive Veterinary medicine Treaty, which teaches the way to know the pains and lesions of the horse, has face leaf and occupies the last 252 pages. The work had another edition in the seventeenth century (1693) and three in the eighteenth century (1712, 1733 and 1767). This copy includes two more previous leaves, than the usual 20, indicated by Arouca: Declaraçam das erratas... (p. [19/20]); Privilegio (p. [21/22]). Seguem-se as Licenças... (p. [23/24]). A slightly trimmed and handled copy; small cut of bookworm badly restored slightly affecting the texto on the last five leaves. However, it preserves a very clean and well folded engraving, depicting the horse anatomy, missing in most specimens. Recernt half Morocco binding with possession mark at the foot of the spine: A.R. Passos. Inocêncio, I, p. 231. Avila Perez, 5785. Arouca, R 136.