REVERCHON (Jean Claude Hector). Anatomy of the horse. Osteol - Lot 189

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REVERCHON (Jean Claude Hector). Anatomy of the horse. Osteol - Lot 189
REVERCHON (Jean Claude Hector). Anatomy of the horse. Osteology and myology. A Paris, chez Mme Huzard, 1825. Large folio, (36) uncounted ff. including title, frontispiece and 17 lithographs in black with occasional red highlights. Contemporary green half-basane, smooth flowered spine, gilt title (binding rubbed with minor restorations, a trace of moisture at the upper corner on a few quires, marginal defects including a small tear not serious to plate 8). Very rare first edition. With superb plates containing 34 finely lithographed figures by Henri Adolphe Brunet, each accompanied by a sheet, printed on the front, of explanatory texts (except for the 9th plate, as indicated by Mennessier de la Lance). Illustrate the proportions, bone structure and muscles of the horse, with the muscles subtly raised by pinkish coloring on some representations (Mennessier also specifies this). Jean Claude Hector Reverchon (1796-1851) was a French painter who taught drawing at the École rurale et vétérinaire in Lyon from 1819 to 1836. The work is dedicated to the Dauphin, Louis de France, son of Charles X and founder of the Chair of Drawing at the French Veterinary Schools. This copy is enriched with 2 handwritten leaves, apparently in the same hand as the ex libris, most likely from working notes taken from the book. And drawings on tracing paper: studies of horsemen in uniforms, in ink, well executed, seeming to represent equitation and dressage exercises, reminiscent of the Ecole de cavalerie du Cadre noir de Saumur. Only one entry in the CCFr (collections ecole vétérinaires). Provenance: Ex libris in pen on title page signed "Motte / Capitaine Instructeur du 1er Cuirassier" (cavalry regiment created during the Revolution). Mennessier de La Lance, II, p. 414. Nissen, ZBI 3380. VETERINARY ART, HIPPOLOGY.
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