Early detailed study of the movement of the horse anticipating Eadweard Muybridge s photographic treatment of the same subject at the University of Pennsylania (1884-87)

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LENOBLE du TEIL, Jean Jules. Etude sur la locomotion du cheval et des quadrupèdes en général considérée dans ses rapports avec l équitation et la représentation des quadrupèdes a toutes les allures et a toutes les variétés de ces allures. Paris, J. Dumaine, 1873. 2 parts bound into 1 volume, large 4to. 123p. With 23 plates (13 double-page & 1 folding, containing numerous illustrations. Original cloth-backed marbled boards, publisher s wrappers bound in. First edition. An early detailed study of the movement of the horse which anticipates Eadweard Muybridge s photographic treatment of the same subject at the University of Pennsylvania (1884-87) by over a decade. The positions are illustrated in precise charts in the second part, or atlas. The author (1838-98), a pupil of Baucher and Raabe, taught horsemanship at the Ecole des Haras du Pin. The volume is well preserved; the original wrappers of the atlas part are age-stained and repaired. Menessier de la Lance II, 92; Wells 4519. N° de ref. del artículo ABE-6244663942

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