Horses.- Brugnone (Carlo Giovanni)

Trattato delle Razze dei Cavalli, 2 engraved folding plates, light browning and spotting throughout, front endpaper detaching, a few leaves chipped, ownership note of Antonio Paolo Scotti, ex libris of Adolphus Trollope and armorial bookplate bearing motto 'bene quodcunque est', pasted on title, contemporary patterned paper wrappers, title label to spine, rubbed, [ICCU IT\ICCU\SBLE\005782], 4to, Fratelli Reycends (Stamperia Reale), Turin, 1781.

*** Extremely rare (only one copy recorded in Italy and none elsewhere) treatise on horses mentioning hundreds of breeds, with particular details. The author was director of Belluno veterinary school and wrote another work on equine medicine in 1774.

Provenance: From the library of Thomas Adolphus Trollope (1810-1891), Travel writer and brother of Anthony Trollope.