Hieronymi Mercurialis De arte gymnastica libri sex
Subtitle: in quibus exercitationum omnium vetustarum genera, loca, modi, facultates, & quidquid denique ad corporis humani exercitationes pertinet diligenter explicatur. ... Opus non modo medicis, verum etiam omnibus antiquarum rerum cognoscendarum, & valetudinis conservandae studiosis admodum utile. ..
Edition: Tertia editione correctiores, & auctiores facti.
Series: Cicognara library; Italian books before 1601 -- roll 632, item 2
Publisher: Apud Iuntas
Published: 1587
Place of publication: Venetiis [Venice]
Language: lat; grc
Translated from: grc
Number of pages: 312
Subjects: Exercise; Early works to 1800; Gymnastics; Physical education and training; History
Work titles: De arte gymnastica
Notes: Mainly a page-for-page reprint of the 2d ed., 1573. The woodcut illustrations are crude copies of those designed for the author by Pirro Ligorio and cut by Cristoforo Coriolani. Cf. Pre-1956 imprints.

Errors in pagination: 51 unnumb., 53 used three times; 55 and 56 each used twice; 57 and 305 numb. 17 and 283.

Printer's device on t.p.: fleur-de-lys and initials "L A" within frame of fauns.

Initials ; tailpieces ; printed marginalia.

Includes index, p. [309-331]

Brit. Mus. Cat. First ed.

H.M. Adams, Cat. of books printed on the continent of Europe, 1501-1600.

Cicognara, 1712

Includes paragraphs in Greek, with Latin translations.