De arte gymnastica libri sex
Subtitle: in quibus exercitationum vetustarum genera, loca, modi, facultates, & quidquid denique ad corporis humani exercitationes pertinet diligenter explicatur
By: Hieronymi Mercurialis Foroliviensis.
Contributors: Coriolanus, Christophorus.
Edition: Editio novissima, aucta, emendata, & figuris authenticis Christophori Coriolani exornata.
Publisher: Sumptibus Andreæ Frisii
Published: 1672
Place of publication: Amstelodami
Language: lat
Number of pages: 387
Subjects: Physical education and training -- Early works to 1800.; Exercise.; Gymnastics.
Notes: With added engraved title page.

First published in Venice, 1569, as an unillustrated quarto; reprinted several times in Paris without or with few illustrations.  Brunet III, 1646 calls this revised and enlarged edition the first valuable one, in terms of both contents and rarity.

With numerous full-page woodcuts in addition to the folded plates.

Includes indices.