Hieronymi Mercvrialis De arte gymnastica libri sex :
in quibus exercitationum omnium vetustarum genera, loca, modi, facultates, & quidquid deniq. ad corporis humani exercitationes pertinet, diligenter explicatur ...

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Main Author: Mercuriale, Girolamo, 1530-1606.
Language(s): Latin
Published: Venetiis : Apvd Ivntas, M D LXXIII [1573]
Edition: Secunda editione aucti, & multis figuris ornati.
Subjects: Gymnastics > Gymnastics / Early works to 1800.
Exercise > Exercise / Early works to 1800.
Physical education and training > Physical education and training / Early works to 1800.
Woodcuts > Woodcuts / Italy > Woodcuts / Italy / 16th century.
Note: Errata on p. [3] of last group.
Includes index.
Signatures: *⁶ A-C⁸ D¹⁰ E-S⁸ T¹⁰ V⁸ X⁶. The pagination in gathering D is doubled in part: each of the pages numbered 53 through 56 is followed by a page numbered 53 2 ̊through 56 2 ̊respectively.
Giunta device on t.p. (lily with the initials L A, for Luc' Antonio), repeated in another form at colophon. The ill. are mostly full page. Decorated initials.
"Opus non modo medicis, verum etiam omnibus antiquarum rerum cognoscendarum, & valetudinis conseruandae studiosis admodum vtile."
First ed. was 1569; see Mortimer.
Physical Description: [12], 308 [i.e. 312], [28] p. (the last blank) : ill. (woodcuts) ; 25 cm. (4to in 8's)
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