WINTER Georg Simon - Tractatio Nova De Re Equaria Complectens partes tres [...]. Quarum Prima. Agit de Rei Equariae commodis & utilitate; item de Loco, Situ, Aedificiis, Statibus [...]. Nürnberg 1672. in Verlegung Johann Andreae umd Wolfgang Endtern. 33.3x21.2 cm, pp. [18], 169 [italics 171], plates 24 [copperplate], table 1, frontispiece in copperplate. period perg. binding.
8 plates missing (with engravings nos. 5, 8, 15, 16, 18, 20, 28, 29, 30, 31), three plates with taped up tear, one plate visibly stained, minor traces of dampstain. Own signature on frontispiece. Title and text simultaneously in Latin, German, Italian and French. First edition of Georg Winter's hippological treatise. On the plates, among other things, the various breeds of horses, horses that have gone down in history, ways of marking horses. Many engravings are devoted to copulation and methods of preparing horses for sexual intercourse. Interesting images of unusual individuals noted in hist. sources: a horse with a woman's head, with upturned hooves, with 6 legs, with a rat's tail, a horse with human feet.
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