Richard von Hünersdorff (London)
[Stock catalogues, numbered series: 19] Military art : chivalry & allied subjects : a selection of books, manuscripts, prints and paintings
London, Richard von Hünersdorff, [2004]
(25 × 17.5 cm), 136] pp., illustrations (some in colour). 228 items. price list (dated 2004) loosely inserted. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - “The pick of all this splendour was [item 52] a manuscript treatise ‘Incornincia il trattato di manescalcaria’, compiled originally by a fourteenth-century Florentine farrier, Dino Dini, here in a copy of c. 1600 made by a contemporary Italian artist, showing soldiers at work and play, the latter a form of croquet” (from a notice in The Book Collector, Autumn 2005, pp.421-422). This manuscript had been offered by Bernard Rosenthal, Catalogue 15 (1964), item 38. ¶ Occasional annotation in pencil.