(LIGER, LOUIS). La connoissance parfaite des chevaux, contenant la maniere de les gouverner & de les conserver en sante... avec une instruction sur les haras: l'art de monter a cheval & de dresser les chevaux de manege. Augmente d'un nouveau dictionnaire de manege. I-II. Paris, La Compagnie des Libraires, 1741.

8vo. (200x135 mm.). Engraved frontispiece, 7 engraved plates. Contemporary full calf bindings, richly gilt spines in compartments, title labels, slightly worn, upper edges of spines more. Some dampstaining. Signature of ? Horn on the first title, also written later to the margin of one page. 2 vols.

Provenance: Per Philip Jacob Waloddi Fischerström 1828-1892, married to Ida Aminoff. Crown Equerry, colonel, hippologist, courtier, manager of Strömsholm's stud farm and first manager of Strömsholm Riding School. Fischerström participated in the occupation corps in Schleswig 1849-50 and attended the Spanish Riding School in Vienna 1863-64. As the first director of the riding school, Fischerström had a great influence on the riding skills within the Swedish army.