ÉTUDES ANATOMIQUES DU CHEVAL, utiles à sa connaissance intérieure et extérieure, à son emploi et à sa représentation relativement aux arts.

BRUNOT (Jacques-Nicolas). ÉTUDES ANATOMIQUES DU CHEVAL, utiles à sa connaissance intérieure et extérieure, à son emploi et à sa représentation relativement aux arts.
Paris, chez l'auteur, Anselin et Pochard, Chaillou-Potrelle, s.d. [1824].
(30 x 45 cm). Oblong folio. Contemporary goatskin spin over marbled paper boards. 3 leaves (title page & tables), 16 anatomical plates in black, lithographed by Villain (after Aubry & Loeillot), engraved by Brunot.

An anatomical study of the horse: useful for internal and external knowledge, for scientific study and artistic representation:

First edition of the first four fascicules and an explanatory text of this magnificent equine album. The Bibliothèque de La Roche-sur-Yon reports the existence of a fifth fascicule, which is otherwise untraced, extremely rare and published later (1825 or 1826), including plates 17 to 20, which Mennessier also records. Our set was bound earlier. The anatomical descriptions in the text plate are scientifically precise and keyed to the drawings with a series of index numbers indicating the names and locations of each bone and muscle.

Jacques-Nicolas Brunot (1763-1826) was an animal sculptor who exhibited at the Salon every year from 1808 to 1822, a direct contemporary of the painter Théodore Géricault whose celebrated Officier de chasseurs à cheval de la garde impériale chargeant was exhibited there in 1812. Brunot was the author of books on horses and their anatomy. Mennessier de La Lance L, 181.