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Date 1584

Period 16th century

Language English

1. The art of riding : set foorth in a breefe treatise, with a due interpretation of certeine places alledged out of Xenophon, and Gryson, verie expert and excellent, horssemen: wherein also the true vse of the hand by the said Grysons rules and precepts is speciallie touched: and how the author of this present work hath put the same into practise, also what profit men maie reape thereby: without the knowledge whereof, all the residue of the order of riding is but vaine. Lastlie, is added a short discourse of the chaine or cauezzan, the trench, and the martingale / written by a gentleman of great skill and long experience in the said art.

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Creator:: Astley, John, d. 1595
Date:: 1584
Physical Description:: [8], 79, [1] p. ; 20 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. The art of riding : conteining diuerse necessarie instructions, demonstrations, helps, and corrections apperteining to horssemanship, not heretofore expressed by anie other author / Written at large in the Italian toong, by maister Claudio Corte, a man most excellent in this art. Here brieflie reduced into certeine English discourses to the benefit of gentlemen and other desirous of such knowledge.

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Creator:: Corte, Claudio
Date:: 1584
Physical Description:: [12], 112 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts