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La cavalerie françoise et italienne, ou, L'art de bien dresser les chevaux, selon les preceptes des bonnes écoles des deux nations : tant pour le plaisir de la carriere, et des carozels que pour le service de la guerre

La Noue, Pierre de, Hewitt, Sarah Cooper, donor. DSI · 1620 · A Strasbourg : Chez Iac. de Heÿden ... · 65 pictures

A French and Italian manual on training horses for riding displays and war, written by Pierre de La Noue and printed at Strasbourg in 1620 for cavalry officers and riders. Its plates show a horse and rider performing figures inside ornate ring-shaped and wheel-shaped patterns drawn as dotted tracks across the page, a graphic idea a designer could borrow for looping paths or circular layouts.

Dressage · Horses · Cavalry

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