Anatomia del cavallo, infermità, et svoi rimedii : opera nuoua, degna di qualsiuoglia prencipe, & caualiere, & molto necessaria à filosofi, medici, cauallerizzi, & marescalchi / Del sig. Carlo Rvini ... Adornata di bellissime figure, le quali dimostrano tutta l'anatomia di esso cauallo. Con due bellissime tauole, una de'capitoli, & l'altra delle cose notabili.

Venetia : Appresso G. Bindoni, il giouane, 1599.

2 volumes in 1 (36 unnumbered pages, 295 pages, 1 unnumbered page; 4 unnumbered pages, 386 pages, 30 unnumbered pages) : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 32 cm (folio)

NLM (16th cent.) 3991

Nissen, C. Zoologische Buchillustration ZBI 3514

Vol. 2 has title: Infermità del cavallo, et svoi remedii

64 plates, included in paging

Collation includes two blank leaves in v. 2: one following title leaf and one at end

Alphabetical index at end of vol. 2

Errata: Sig. ***4R of vol. 1 and final p. of vol. 2

Dedication on t.p.: "All'illustrissimo, & excellentissimo signor Cesare di Borbone, figlivolo del Christianiss. Henrico IIII. Re di Francia, & di Nauarra, &c"

A reissue of the first ed., published under the title Dell'anotomia [sic] et dell'infirmità del cavallo (Bologna, 1598)

Some authors have attributed the illustrations to Leonardo da Vinci, but this is not widely credited.--cf. Cole: History of comparative anatomy, p. 83-97

Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: Sotheby's via Phelps Note: Final blank leaf of v. 2 wanting. Binding: Modern vellum. MS inscriptions: 1. On t.p.: notes in French, with the name Devabres signed twice, once with the date 1599. 2. On t.p.: notes in Italian, in a different hand. 3. At head of v. 1 contents (sig. *1R): "Cavalliero Bendoni intitolato l'anno 1624." 4. In margins of text: notes in another hand