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NEWCASTLE, William Cavendish, Duke of.- Methode et invention nouvelle de dresser les chevaux par le Tres-Noble, Haut, et Tres-Puissant Prince Guillaume Marquis et Comte de Newcastle [...] Oeuvre auquel in apprend à travailler les chevaux selon la nature, & à parfaire la nature par la subtilité de l’art: traduit de l’Anglois de l’Auteur, par son commandement; & enrichi de plus de quarante belles figures en taille douce.- Seconde edition.- A Londres: Chez Jean Brindley, MDCCXXXVII. [1737].- IV, [8], 236 p.: 1 portada dupla gravada, 42 gravuras duplas, il.; 46 cm.- E. William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle (1592-1676), politician and soldier, born in Yorkshire (United Kingdom), was noted as a master of horsemanship and author of treatises on equestrian art. This is the second edition, with better graphic quality, as it was printed on superior quality paper. It retains the double frontispiece of the first edition (in the variant dated 1658), with the following printing: A Anvers Chez Iacques van Meurs l'an M. DC. LVIII. Engraving 16 with central tear restored, without lack of support; stain on the outer margin of last seven leaves. Otherwise, a copy slightly handled, but generally clean, keeping all the engravings mounted on stubs. It includes, pasted on the flyleaf, a page with an inscription offering, in French (10 lines), to an unidentified general, initialed (illegible) and undated (circa 1800). Full sheepskin binding, slightly late (19th century?), with a gilt roll on the squares and a slightly worn spine. Complete copy, strictly corresponding to the detailed description of Mennessier de La Lance (II, p. 248).