Lot n° 293
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GIROLAMO Mercuriale - Lot 293
GIROLAMO Mercuriale
De Arte Gymnastica libri Sex: In Quibus Exercitationum Omnium Vetustarum Genera, loca, Modi, Facultates, & Quidquid Deniq
Amstelodami, sumptibus Andreae Frissi, 1572
Illustrated: frontispiece, engravings of sports disciplines by Christophori Coriolani, engraver in Nürnberg
Latin book, 23.5 cm x 19 cm, 387 pages + index
Period binding, 5 raised bands, spine with ornate compartments, label, worn corners.
Very good condition, stains on the cover sheet, stains on the title page, moisture stain at the beginning of the book up to page 25, slightly corrugated paper.
The first book on sports medicine. "Mercuriale, professor of medicine at Bologna and Pisa, is probably best known to modern students of medical history for the present work, first published in 1569. It was the first complete text on gymnastics and stresses the importance that all forms of exercise have in maintaining good health. Relying heavily on ancient practices, this work is an excellent compendium of the physical therapy of earlier times" (Heirs of Hippocrates) "The illustrations which accompanied the second edition of the work proved incredibly fertile to the Western imagination regarding the nature of athletics in the Classical world. Modern scholarship has recognized that these illustrations were largely speculative creations of Mercuriale and his collaborators."
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