PACHECO, Francisco Pinto.- TRATADO | DA | CAVALARIA | DA GINETA, | COM A DOCTRINA DOS MELHORES | Authores.- Lisboa: Na officina de Ioam da Costa, 1670.- [16], 210, [1, 1 br.] p.: 1 retrato equestre, il.; 20 cm.- E. Original edition of a rare chivalric treatise illustrated in the text with seven full-page woodcuts. The author († 1668) was a knight of the Order of Christ and captain-in-chief of the city of Tangier, where he was born. From page 181 onwards, a chapter entitled “Art and dexterity of tovrear” is included. Cropped copy, with light handling, but clean, preserving the very rare equestrian portrait of the author, engraved on copperplate, at the beginning (signed A.P.), which is missing in most known copies. Alfred Barmore MacLay's bookplate, dated 1927, representing a snaffle bit. Binding from the 19th/20th century, full fleeced sheepskin. Fernando Palha’s catalogue gives the following indication: «Livre rare. Manque le portrait qu'on trouve dans quelques exemplaires». Inocêncio, III, p. 37 (the work rarely appears on the market). Arouca, P 6.