Apr 16, 2026 10:00 EST
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
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The first edition of a classic manual on equestrianism
FIASCHI, CESARE
Trattato dell’imbrigliare, maneggiare, et ferrare caualli, diuiso in tre parti, con alcuni discorsi sopra la natura di caualli, con disegni di briglie, maneggi, & di caualieri a cauallo, & de ferri d’esso, di m. Cesare Fiaschi gentil huomo ferrarese. Bologna: Anselmo Giaccarelli, 1556. First edition. 8 5/8 x 6 1/4 inches (22 x 16 cm); [viii], 171, [1] pp.; A-Y4 χ2; 40 full-page woodcuts showing bridles, 17 mostly full-page woodcuts depicting a horse and rider executing manège patterns (with musical notation), 24 text woodcuts of designs for horseshoes. The title with some minor worming, marginal restorations from P2 to end, and the figure of the rider in the manège plate on p. 117 is supplied in facsimile. Name of Joannes Penna neatly written on first and last leaf.
The rare first edition of this classic equestrian treatise. The woodcuts illustrate bits, bridles and shoes. There are also diagrams of manège patterns, which are accompanied by musical scores indicating the rhythm to which the exercises are to be performed. Fiaschi believed that horses have the capacity to synchronize their movements to a musical beat, hence the chant notation.
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FIASCHI, CESARE
Trattato dell’imbrigliare, maneggiare, et ferrare caualli, diuiso in tre parti, con alcuni discorsi sopra la natura di caualli, con disegni di briglie, maneggi, & di caualieri a cauallo, & de ferri d’esso, di m. Cesare Fiaschi gentil huomo ferrarese. Bologna: Anselmo Giaccarelli, 1556. First edition. 8 5/8 x 6 1/4 inches (22 x 16 cm); [viii], 171, [1] pp.; A-Y4 χ2; 40 full-page woodcuts showing bridles, 17 mostly full-page woodcuts depicting a horse and rider executing manège patterns (with musical notation), 24 text woodcuts of designs for horseshoes. The title with some minor worming, marginal restorations from P2 to end, and the figure of the rider in the manège plate on p. 117 is supplied in facsimile. Name of Joannes Penna neatly written on first and last leaf.
The rare first edition of this classic equestrian treatise. The woodcuts illustrate bits, bridles and shoes. There are also diagrams of manège patterns, which are accompanied by musical scores indicating the rhythm to which the exercises are to be performed. Fiaschi believed that horses have the capacity to synchronize their movements to a musical beat, hence the chant notation.
Auction: Rare Books, Autographs & Maps, Apr 16, 2026
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Successful Auction of Rare Books, Autographs & Maps on April 16, 2026 Surpasses Expectations
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Thomas Jefferson Letter Commenting on Toussaint Louverture Achieves $32,000
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NEW YORK, NY – Doyle's auction of Rare Books, Autographs & Maps on April 16, 2026 saw international competition drive strong results throughout the sale and a total that surpassed expectations.
Thomas Jefferson Letter on Toussaint Louverture
Highlighting the sale was a fascinating 1802 letter from Thomas Jefferson as president to Maryland Governor John Francis Mercer that achieved a strong $32,000. The remarkable letter captures a rare, candid moment in which Jefferson assesses, with striking clarity, the arrest of Toussaint Louverture, a leader of the Haitian Revolution, by French General Charles LeClerc, Napoleon’s brother-in-law. Jefferson perceptively warned that LeClerc’s actions would erode trust and likely spark further racial conflict—an insight that proved remarkably accurate. Beyond its sharp political foresight, the letter reflects the broader anxiety the Haitian Revolution provoked in the United States, which contributed to decades of diplomatic isolation of Haiti.
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