RIDING. DRESSAGE. SADDLERY. BAUMANN (A.) Guide du sellier et - Lot 155

RIDING. DRESSAGE. SADDLERY. BAUMANN (A.) Guide du sellier et du harnacheur. Paris, Aubert et Cie, sd (ca 1850). In-folio (59.5 x 39 cm). 10 plates in sheets (55 x 36 cm); in publisher's folder, green half cloth covered with pink paper on boards, cover with ornate title page, lithographed in black, laminated, yellow endpapers. Very rare. Absent from Mennessier de la Lance. Suite of 10 plates finely drawn by A. Baumann and printed by Lemercier, representing saddlery and harness objects. They are taken from the Guide du sellier et du harnacheur, a reference work intended at the time for professionals or top-level trainers. Each highly accurate plate shows objects in "situation" on one horse, sometimes two, then drawn to scale, with cross-references and indexes at the bottom of the plate; includes dressage devices, items for stables, harnesses, bridles etc. Bibliographie générale de la France, no. 51 of 1851, 892. Traces at the bottom of a few plates, but otherwise a fine copy.