NETTEN, Cornelis Anthonie Geisweit van der.
Handboek der Paardenkennis, ten dienste van [– voor] den Burger- en Krijgsstand [– … II. Deel, bevattende de Gezondheidsbewaring en Geneeswijs van de Ziekten der Paarden].
Amsterdam and the Hague, [P.E. Briët for –] the brothers van Cleef, 1811 [– 1817].
2 vols, 8vo, pp. I: [10], xxii, 247, [1 (blank)], 128, [8], 25, [1], [2 (blank)], II: [56], 334, [2], lxii, [2], [16]; with 7 folding tables and 16 plates (of which 14 folding); large paper-flaw to vol. I half-title, damp-stain to half-title and title; a very good set, uncut and partially unopened in publisher’s blue printed wrappers, sewn on 2 tapes; ink stain to upper wrapper vol. I, spines sunned and cracked with a few small chips; ink shelf-marks to wrappers and vol. I half-title.
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Handboek der Paardenkennis, ten dienste van [– voor] den Burger- en Krijgsstand [– … II. Deel, bevattende de Gezondheidsbewaring en Geneeswijs van de Ziekten der Paarden].
First edition of the first part, second of the second, of a scarce Dutch treatise on horsemanship and farriery. Captured by the Prussians in the late 1780s, Cornelis Anthonie Geisweit van der Netten (1772-1847) served in the Austrian army against the Turks and in Belgium before returning to his native military, where he was placed in command of cavalry training in Delft and eventually achieved the rank of major general, publishing several works on equestrianism and military science.
No copies could be traced at auction.
Not in Dingley; not in Mellon.
