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[EQUESTRIANISM]. DRUMMOND DE MELFORT, Louis-Hector de (1721-1792). Traité sur La Cavalerie… Paris: Guillaume Desprez, 1776. 2 volumes, folio text volume and elephant folio atlas volume. Text volume illustrated with frontispiece, engraved vignette on title-page, 11 inserted plates, and woodcut initials and headpieces; atlas volume with 35 double-page plates (includes 2 copies of plate xii, one plate is missing the left half of the double-page, plates bound out of sequence). Text volume: [xxiv], [1]-[507], [1, blank] pp. With half-title, list of subscribers. Text volume approximately 18 ½ x 12”. Atlas volume approximately 25 x 19 ½” (unfolded plates approximately 25 x 37 ½”). Contemporary marbled boards, atlas volume with brown morocco backstrip, burgundy gilt morocco lettering label (bindings worn, chipped, torn, some wear, occasional tears and chips to leaves, text volume spine perished, front endleaves of atlas volume reinforced at upper portion and rear endleaves reinforced at lower portion, contemporary binder’s label on fp of text volume). Still, a good copy of this rare and beautifully illustrated treatise on military equestrianism. FIRST EDITION. Drummond was a French cavalry officer who served during the Seven Years’ War. Drummond’s war service convinced him of the need of French cavalry to improve their training, hence this important work. Cohen-de Ricci 326.