1680 COMPLEAT HORSEMAN antique ILLUSTRATED Le parfait mareschal by J. SOLLEYSEL

A nice copy of an authoritative work on horses


SOLLEYSEL, [JACQUES DE]

Le parfait mareschal.

Paris: Gervais Clouzier, 1680


Two volumes in one;

Original speckled calf with spine gilt and sprinkled edges, spine with raised bands, gilt decorated, with title label


[viii], 1-546, [10]; [ii], 1-398, [12] pp.,

With engravings in text. 


Minor toning,  a very clean copy.

Size  7.5 by 10  in.

Text in French
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Jacques Labessie de Solleysel (1617–1680) was a French author of books on horsemanship.
In 1664 he published Le Parfait Mareschal (The Compleat horseman), "for more than 100 years the authoritative work on horses".

Jacques de Solleysel had studied at Lyon.
One of his instructors in horsemanship was Menou de Charnizay, the friend and favourite pupil of Antoine de Pluvinel.
He became Master of the Horse to the French Ambassador, negotiating the Peace of Westphalia at Münster in 1645, and using the opportunity to learn about veterinary practices in Germany. On his return to Paris he joined the Royal Riding Academy.

He is said also to have had a talent for music, for painting, and for making friends.

Le Parfait Mareschal was in two volumes, the first on horse management and the second on equine diseases.
The book showed familiarity with Greek and Latin writers on the subject. It also repeated extracts of Newcastle's book on horsemanship, on the grounds that Newcastle's book was hard to find and expensive.
De Solleysel himself made a second French translation of Newcastle in 1677

Sir William Hope abridged and translated the book into English as The Compleat Horseman' in 1696, and it was widely reprinted through the eighteenth century.
George Washington owned a copy in his library.
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