Hieronymi Mercurialis Foroliviensis 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: Blooteling, Abraham, 1640-1690, engraver; Coriolanus, Christophorus, illustrator; Frisius, Andreas, -1675, printer
Edition: Editio novissima / aucta, emendata, & figuris authenticis Christophori Coriolani exornata.
Publisher: Sumptibus Andreae Frisii
Published: 1672
Place of publication: Amstelodami
Language: lat
Number of pages: 387
Subjects: Physical education and training; Early works to 1800; Exercise; Gymnastics
Other titles: De arte gymnastica libri sex
Notes: Printer's device on t.p. with: "Optimi Consultores Mortvi".

Errata notes included, p. [42].

With added engraved title page.

Added engraved title page missing in copy 2.

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.

Includes indices; printed marginal notes.

Health Sciences Library holds two copies of text copy 1 from: Jerome P. Webster Library of Plastic Surgery.

Health Sciences Library copy 2, variant issue? First two plates on one folded sheet, instead of two separate leaves as in copy 1.

In Latin with Greek references.