Trois dialogues de l'exercice de sauter, et voltiger en l'air
Subtitle: auec les figures qui seruent à la parfaicte demonstration & intelligence dudict art
By: par le Sr. Arghange Tuccaro, de l'Abruzzo, au royaume de Naples ...
Series: French books before 1601 -- roll 443, item 5
Publisher: Chez Claude de Monstr'oeil, tenant sa boutique en la cour du palais, au nom de Iesus
Published: 1599
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 199
Subjects: Acrobatics; Early works to 1800; Gymnastics; Exercise
Notes: Signatures: ã⁴ A-Nn⁴ Pp-Ddd⁴ Eee⁴ (Eee4 blank).

Errors in foliation: 59, 60, 125, 126 repeated, 133, 134 omitted in numbering; many other numbering errors.

The folded plate, signed "Oo", consists of a woodcut depiction of 3 acrobats jumping through a series of hoops.

Eighty-seven woodcut ill. (including repeats) in text.

Title-page vignette (tailpiece incorporating printer's device).

Adams T-1017.

From the collection of Edwin Binney 3rd.

Imperfect: wanting the folding plate; a different version of the plate (from a later edition, or a later facsimile?) bound in at front.

Old inscription (partly scored) on front pastedown: Avignon de Pierre [?] no. 177; another inscription erased.

Bound in contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt, edges sprinkled red.