QUILLINAN (L. de). Recueil d'éléments d'hippologie, d'après MM. Girard, le baron Richerand, Milne Edwards, Lecoq, Gronier, Hurtrel d'Arboval, et Beucher de Saint-Ange... Paris, Librairie de Firmin Didot Frères, 1854.

8vo. (210x140 mm.). 7 engraved plates, some illustrations to text. Dedication from the author to the Swedish-Norwegian king Karl XV on the first free endpaper, dated Copenhagen 1865. Fine morocco binding, boards with the coat-of-arms of king and his gilt monogram, slightly worn, faded spine, split inner joints. Bookplate of Carl Fischerström. Text with some spotting.
First edition. Mennessier de La Lance, II, 366.

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.