Verlag: Bohn, London, 1890
Anbieter: K Books Ltd ABA ILAB, York, YORKS, Vereinigtes Königreich
No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. A fine miniature-type antique engraving. . Plate size 7 x 5 ins. Mounted and ready to frame. A fine opportunity to purchase a decorative and attractive portrait.
Verlag: Harding, 1828
Anbieter: K Books Ltd ABA ILAB, York, YORKS, Vereinigtes Königreich
No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. A splendid original engraved portrait of an eminent person. Professionally mounted/matted and ready to frame. Unusual, attractive and decorative. Printed in Circa 1828.
Verlag: Harding, 1830
Anbieter: K Books Ltd ABA ILAB, York, YORKS, Vereinigtes Königreich
No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. A fine engraved portrait. Mounted/matted and ready to frame. Attractive, decorative and unusual. C. 1830.
Verlag: Harding & Leaprd, 1826
Anbieter: K Books Ltd ABA ILAB, York, YORKS, Vereinigtes Königreich
No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. Dean (illustrator). A fine original engraving with name printed underneath. Mounted and ready to frame. An excellent opportunity to purchase this splendid portrait of this famous personage.
Verlag: William MacKenzie, Glagow, Edinburgh, London & New York
Anbieter: K Books Ltd ABA ILAB, York, YORKS, Vereinigtes Königreich
No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. Engraved By Mote (illustrator). A fine steel engraving. ca. 1850. Mounted and ready to frame. A fine opportunity to purchase a portrait of this eminent personage. Made knight of the Bath by James I and govenor to the prince of Wales by Charles I. After the restoration created the duke of Newcastle.
Verlag: Johann Ziegers und Georg Lehmanns, Nürnberg, 1700
Anbieter: Antiquariat Kastanienhof, Pirna, Deutschland
Kein Einband. Zustand: Gut. "Oben rechts mit Pag. 164 Num 4 und unten rechts "20" beziffert.Alle unsere Graphiken sind Originalstiche aus der angegebenen Zeit und befinden sich in gutem Zustand, soweit nicht anders beschrieben oder abgebildet"" Mittig originale Bugfalte, Büttenpapier von frischer kontrastreicher Wirkung.Verso oben auf Passepartout montiert Insgesamt gut erhalten---Oben innerhalb der Darstellung auf deutsch und französisch mit Das Blatt zeigt zwei Pferde mit Reitern, die die oben genannten Reitfiguren ausführen.Des Welt-berühmten Herzog Wilhelms von Newcastle Neu-eröffnete Reit-Bahn. Welche erstlich durch Ihme selbsten erfunden, Für Ihre Zufriedenheit versenden wir mit DHL und ausschließlich mit Trackingcode für eine sichere Sendungsverfolgung! Weitere Angebote unter antiquariat-kastanienhof. nein.
Anbieter: K Books Ltd ABA ILAB, York, YORKS, Vereinigtes Königreich
No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. A splendid antique portrait, circa 1860. Mounted/matted and ready to frame. Attractive and decorative.
Erscheinungsdatum: 1810
Anbieter: K Books Ltd ABA ILAB, York, YORKS, Vereinigtes Königreich
No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. A splendid antique engraved portrait, circa 1810. Mounted/matted and ready to frame. Attractive and decorative.
Erscheinungsdatum: 1830
Anbieter: K Books Ltd ABA ILAB, York, YORKS, Vereinigtes Königreich
No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. A splendid antique engraved portrait. Mounted/matted and ready to frame. Attractive and decorative.
Erscheinungsdatum: 1820
Anbieter: K Books Ltd ABA ILAB, York, YORKS, Vereinigtes Königreich
No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. A fine engraved portrait, printed circa 1820. Mounted/matted and ready to frame. A fine opportunity to purchase an unusual and attractive portrait.
Verlag: Chez Jean Brindley, Libraire de S.A.R. Monseigneur de Galles, dans New Bond-street., London., 1737
Anbieter: Sims Reed Ltd ABA ILAB, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
Erstausgabe
Folio. (538 x 375 mm). [2 blank leaves, engraved title, printed title, various dedications (see below), engraved plates, pp. 236 (Books I - IV, 'Abbregé de la Cavalerie', 'Conclusion au Lecteur', 'Additions', 'Table', 2 blank leaves]. Double-page engraved illustrated title leaf, printed title with woodcut vignette, leaf with Brindley's dedication to 'Henriette Cavendish-Holles, Countes of Oxford & Mortimer', leaf with 'Avertissement sur cette Seconde Edition', 3 leaves with Newcastle's 'Au Roy de la Grande Bretagne', additional dedications to 'Mes Tres-Chers Fils le Seigneur Charles, Vicomte de Mansfield et le Seigneur Henry Cavendish' and to 'Tous Honorable Cavaliers, et aux Tres-Excellens Cavallerizzes' and 42 double-page engraved plates, all on single sheets and mounted on guards by various engravers (Lisbetten, Vostermans, Kessel, Clouwet &c.) after Van Diepenbeke and numerous woodcuts throughout. (Sheet size: c.525 x 630 mm). Engraved and woodcut head- and tail-pieces throughout, decorative woodcut 4-line initials for each chapter opening. Four leaves of text (pages 81 - 84 and 87 - 90) are very slightly shorter (remargined at foot) and may have been supplied from another copy. Occasional slight browning and foxing but overall a crisp, clean copy. Contemporary English red morocco by John Brindley, boards with elaborate gilt-tooled borders, banded spine in eight compartments with morocco title label with gilt title and black morocco sections with elaborate decorative tooling in alternating compartments, board edges with gilt decoration, turn-ins with additional gilt tooling, marbled endpapers, a.e.g., fore-edge with elaborate contemporary painted decoration (see below) beneath the gilding also by John Brindley. [PROVENANCE: Armorial fore-edge painting with the arms of Dr. Richard Mead combined with those of his second wife Ann Alston and ther motto 'NON SIBI SED TOTI'; bookplate to front pastedown with the text 'Milton, / Peterborough', that of the Viscounts Milton and Earls Fitzwilliam, of Milton Park); engraved armorial bookplate of Weetman Harold Pearson with the motto 'DO IT WITH THY MIGHT', 2nd. Viscount Cowdray; library location in pencil to front free endpaper verso; library location in ink to head of first blank leaf]. Dr. Richard Mead's copy of the second edition of Cavendish's famous equine treatise bound in contemporary English red morocco with a rare contemporary fore-edge painting of Mead's and his wife's arms, the binding and fore-edge by John Brindley who was, in addition, the publisher of the work. 'Dr. Richard Mead lived more in the broad sunshine of life than any almost any man.' (Dr. Johnson). First printed at Anvers in 1658 during Cavendish's self-imposed exile during the English Civil War, this second edition was printed on a better quality of paper using the same plates as for the first edition. Cavendish (1592 - 1676), a staunch Royalist, was raised to the Dukedom of Newcastle at the Restoration of Charles II in 1660, hence the omission of that title on the title of the present work. The archetypal Stuart courtier and aristocrat, the very wealthy and landed Cavendish was a poet, scholar, diplomat, soldier, architect and a famous and accomplished horseman. Cavendish's 'Methode et Invention Nouvelle de Dresser les Chevaux' sets out the influential lessons for schooling horses ('l'art de manège') employed by Cavendish himself at his famous riding school. As well as allegorical compositions, a portrait of Cavendish surrounded by worshipping horses, a portrait of Charles II (who was entrusted to Cavendish by his father Charles I for his education) and a group portrait of the Cavendish family, the work features 24 plates of training, many depicting Cavendish himself, as well as his assistant Captain Mazin. The large number of woodcuts in the text depict (in the main) the technical footwork required by the horses in their schooling. While at Anvers Cavendish inhabitated the Rubenshuis, Peter Paul Rubens home for the last three decades of his life; Abraham van Diepenbeke who designed the plates of the work had been a pupil of Rubens. Dr. Richard Mead (1673 - 1754) was an important philanthropist, patron, collector, physician, classicist, antiquarian, scholar, bibliophile and author (in no order of priority). Satirised by Sterne as 'Dr. Kunastrolius', as a Royal physician Mead attended Queen Anne on her deathbed and was later physician to George II as Prince of Wales and as King as well as to Sir Isaac Newton. Mead succeeded John Radcliffe as the most important medical man in Britain, pioneered inoculation with Sir Hans Sloane and was influential in the establishment of Thomas Coram's 'Foundling Hospital'; Mead's Bloomsbury house in Great Ormond Street later became the 'Hospital for Sick Children' (now the Great Ormond Street Hospital or GOSH). Mead had an astonishing collection of paintings including Holbein's portrait of Erasmus, Titian's portrait of Vesalius, Kneller's portrait of Edmund Halley and works by Canaletto, Claude, Rembrandt, Brueghel and Poussin. He also owned extensive series of prints and drawings and commissioned works by Watteau and Scheemakers. 'Rare monkish manuscripts for Hearne alone, / And books for Mead and butterflies for Sloane.' (Alexander Pope). As a bibliophile, Mead was almost unrivalled, ODNB states that 'Mead's collection of books and manuscripts was second only to that of Hans Sloane', adding the detail that he owned over 10,000 volumes including 146 incunabulae. His collection was sold as the 'Bibliotheca Meadiana' - unlike Sloane he wished for the dispersal of his collection - in two sales, the first between November 18th and December 19th, 1754, over 28 days, the second between April 7th and May 8th, 1755, over 28 days. The whole collection achieved £5,540-7-6 (bookcases included) and featured Mead's copy of Vesalius' 'Epitome' on vellum (now in the British Library), a copy of the 1469 Pliny purchased by Louis XV of France, a Shakesp.
Verlag: LondonJ. Brindley ., 1743
Anbieter: Robert Frew Ltd. ABA ILAB, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
Erstausgabe
FIRST EDITION in English*. Folio. Large paper copy.(55 x 36.5 cm.) 2 vol. bound in 1. Half-title+title+dedication+ contents v-viii+11-142+[iv] ; title, dedication, preface, contents [viii]+4+[ii]+5-36+33-138+[xiv]. Ruled in red throughout, wide margins, contemporary calf, marbled endpapers and edges, rebacked preserving original gilt-tooled spine, Additional double-page engraved title in French (imprint Antwerp, Jacques van Meurs, 1658*), 62 plates comprising 42 double-page engraved equestrian plates, 20 engraved anatomical, equipment and veterinary plates in part 2 (12 printed in bistre, 2 double-page), engraved vignettes and historiated initials, woodcut diagrams in the text, Binding slightly rubbed, occasional spotting and minor blemushes to text. Overall a very good copy. *The second, enlarged (English) edition. *First published in French, 1658. Podeschi 49. In the notes, he explains that the error in pagination of volume 2 also affects the chapter-numbering, although the text is complete and continuous. The Duke of Newcastle's equestrian skills were renowned, and his riding school at Antwerp attracted students from across Europe. Newcastle's work first appeared in French in 1658, lavishly illustrated with engravings after A. de Diepenbeke. The engravings in the present edition are printed from the same original copperplates, acquired by Brindley for his 1737 French edition. The plates in volume I include five equestrian portraits (4 of the Duke), five plates of various horses owned by the Duke, two charming scenes of mares and foals, two plates of bits, saddles and other equipment, 24 scenes showing horses being trained (most featuring the Duke, Captain Mazin and, occasionally, a groom named Palfrenier). The plates end with a multiple portrait of the Duke, his wife, his children and grandchildren. (Nissen ZBI 849; Podeschi 49).
Verlag: Printed for J. Brindley, Bookseller, London, 1743
Anbieter: Antiquariat am St. Vith, Mönchengladbach, Deutschland
Leder. 52 cm x 36,5 cm. 138 S. Leder mit Rückengoldprägung und dreiseitigem Rotschnitt. Sprache: Englisch, 1 Blatt (S. 43, 44) fehlt, Einband beschädigt (Vorderdeckel gelöst) Einband beschabt und Fehlstellen im Bezugsleder, Titelblatt gelöst und etwas gerändert, Papier teils geringf. fleckig, Mit 3 gestoch. Vignettten und 18 (von 19) ganzseitigen, teils doppelblattgr. Kupferstichen. Band 2 apart! 1 Textblatt und 1 Kupferstich fehlen.
Verlag: London, 1740
Anbieter: K Books Ltd ABA ILAB, York, YORKS, Vereinigtes Königreich
No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. An original antique engraving. Mounted and ready to frame. Attractive and decorative. c. 1740.
Anbieter: K Books Ltd ABA ILAB, York, YORKS, Vereinigtes Königreich
No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. A fine original antique engraving. Mounted and ready to frame, mount size approx 6 x 4 ins, 15 x 10 cms. In excellent condition.
Verlag: London, 1739
Anbieter: K Books Ltd ABA ILAB, York, YORKS, Vereinigtes Königreich
No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. Engraved By Vertue (illustrator). Fine original engraving. Mounted and ready to frame. This is an excellent opportunity to purchase a portrait of this eminent personage. Shows great detail.