Hieronymus Mercurialis Girolamo Mercuriale (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: issued without. Limited edition. Folio, 387 pages + Index, quarter leather, pastepaper boards; in fine publisher's slipcase. WITH, the separate booklet of 26 pages, being the Introduction by Dr. Christine Nutton. Copy 567 of 2800 copes. "One of the earliest books to discuss the therapeutic value of gymnastics and sports generally for the cure of disease and disability, and an important study of gymnastics in the ancient world. The second edition, DE ARTE GYMNASTICA . Venice, . 1573 is the first illustrated book on gymnastics. It contains 29 woodcuts by Coriolan. - Garrison / Morton 1986.1.".

With numerous illustrations and plates, 387 p. 22 Bll. As new. la Gewicht in Gramm: 0 Gr.-8°, decorative original half-leatherbinding in slipcase. Reprint of the edition Amsterdam 1672. No.1555 of 2300 copies.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Quarto. [10], 387, [41] pages, engraved title, 8 leaves of plates (5 folded), 27 woodcut illustrations; 24 cm. Contemporary vellum, ink title. Good binding and cover. Book plate of Fratelli Guizzetti qm. Giammaria. Vellum seperating from inside front board. Small institutional stamp of Rush Medical College on title. Red ink number to verso of title page, bleeding to title page. Pages generally clean and unmarked. Small (inconsequential) stain to outer margin at corner at last few pages (index). "One of the earliest books to discuss the therapeutic value of gymnastics and sports generally for the cure of disease and disability, and an important study of gymnastics in the ancient world." Garrison-Morton 1986.1 (1569 ed) Girolamo Mercuriale is best known for his contributions to exercise medicine and natural cures. His study of classical medicine focused on diet, exercise and hygiene. In De Arte Gymnastica, Merculiale describes the classical gymnasium, and emphasizes the importance of exercise for preventing diseases, maintaining health, and curative properties. This edition contains additional plates not present in previous ones, from the work of Justus Lipsius. Refs: Krivatsy 7785. Garrison Morton 1593. Mortimer Italian 302. Brunet III 1646. Wellcome IV, p.116.; N. Siraisi. p. 236.; History, Antiquarianism, and Medicine: The Case of Girolamo Mercuriale; Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol.64, No.2 (2003).

Condition: 0. Vierte Ausgabe, die erste mit dem fünften Buch. - Der ital. Arzt Mercuriale (1530-1606) unterrichtete in Rom und Padua, bevor er 1573 zur Behandlung des Kaisers Maximilian II. nach Wien berufen wurde. Später wirkte er noch an den Universitäten von Bologna und Pisa. Mercuriale beschäftigte sich mit Säuglingspflege und Kinderheilkunde, mit Otologie und Ophthalmologie, Dermatologie und mit den Infektionskrankheiten. Im Jahr 1576 bekämpfte Mercuriale die Pest in Venedig. Sein Hauptwerk De arte gymnastica" verschaffte ihm bereits zu Lebzeiten große internationale Anerkennung. - Einband etw. bestoßen u. fleckig. Gegen Ende etw. braunfleckig u. wasserrandig. Das letzte Blatt m. alten Einträgen. Schwach gebräunt. - VD16, M 4822; Adams M 1338; BM STC, German Books 620; Hirsch IV, 209; Durling 3112; Wellcome 4229. la Gewicht in Gramm: 500 8°. Mit einigen Holzschn.-Vignetten. 16 Bll., 276 (recte 278) S., 24 Bll., Späterer Ppbd.

387,[49] Seiten mit zahlreichen Textabb. und Tafeln sowie fünf Falttafeln, Halb-Schafleder. *neuwertig, ohne Beihefte*.

Condition: Good. Titlepage with red and black printer's device the Florentine red lily in a decorated frame, head- and tail-pieces and printed side notes + decorative initials. Folio disbound [xxviii] +644pp [the last leaf in facsimile] Preliminaries include bibliographic references and index. The titlepage is counted in the preliminaries and is handsomely printed in red and black in both text and printer's device. There is also a Royal College of Surgeons Library blindstamp to titlepage and the next two leaves. Though missing the covers the book block is tight with the first two and last two gatherings glued into the spine. There are side notes throughout directing the reader to the cause of the illness, the cure and the prognosis etc. etc. Not a common book, only one on line for sale and it is missing pages, plus one sold at ABPC [in 1981].This italian author wrote several books but his most famous is the ARTE GYMNASTICA. 1 volume. Disbound.

Bibliotheca Chalcographica, illustrium virtute atque eruditione in tota Europa, clarissimorum virorum [.], von Jean Jacques Boissard. Frankfurt/M. und Heidelberg, J. Ammoonus, 1650-1654, 141 x 106 auf 195 x 152 mm. Hieronymus Mercurialis (1530-1606), M.D. Padua, Professor of medicine, wrote the first systematic textbook of dermatology and a history of the the attitudes and practice of the Greeks and Romans concerning diet, hygiene, bathing, and exercise. The portrait is half length to the left, in fur edged coat. Oval in rectangle, with ornament in corners. Geronimo Merucriali, "bekannter philologischer Mediciner, geb. zu Forli (Romagna) 30. Sept. 1530, studirte in Bologna, promovirte in Padua und liess sich dann in seiner Vaterstadt nieder. 1562 von seinen Landsleuten in einer besonderen politischen Mission zum Papste Pius IV. deputirt, wusste ihn dieser zum bleibenden Aufenthalt in Rom zu bewegen. Während der folgenden 7 Jahre widmete sich Mercuriali eifrig dem Studium der altclassischen Aerzte, folgte 1569 einem Rufe als Prof. nach Padua, wo er 18 Jahre lang blieb, siedelte 1587 in gleicher Eigenschaft nach Bologna über und endlich 1599 nach Pisa, von wo er sich kurz vor seinem 13. Nov. 1606 erfolgten Tode wieder nach seiner Vaterstadt zurückzog. Mercurali hat sich um die Medicin grosse Verdienste durch seine textkritischen Schriften über die Werke der Alten erworben. In dieser Beziehung sind zu nennen: "Censura et dispositio operum Hippocratis" (Venedig 1583; Frankf. 1585). Noch berühmter sind die: "Variarum lectionum libri IV etc." (Venedig 1571, 4.; Basel 1576; Paris 1585; Venedig 1588; 1598; 1601, fol.); sie enthalten kritische Abhandlungen über schwierige Stellen griechischer und römischer Schriftsteller. Ferner: "De arte gymnastica libri VI" (Venedig 1569, 1575, 1587, 1601; Paris 1577; Amsterdam 1672). Ausserdem schrieb er: "Nomothesaurus seu ratio lactandi infantes" (Padua 1550) - "De morbis cutaneis libri II et de omnibus corporis humani excrementis libri III" (Venedig 1570; Basel 1576) - "De pestilentia in universum, praesertim vero de Veneta et Patavina" (Venedig 1577 u. öfter) - "Tractatus de maculis pestiferis et de hydrophobia" (Padua 1580; Venedig 1601) - "De morbis muliebribus praelectiones" (Basel 1582; Venedig 1601, 1608) - "De morbis puerorum" (Venedig 1583, 1615) - "De venenis et morbis venenosis" (Frankf. 1584; Basel 1588; Venedig 1601) - "De decoratione liber; accedit de naribus et de reficiendo naso" (Venedig 1585; 1601; 1625); in der zweiten Ausgabe dieses Werkes findet sich der Brief von TAGLIACOZZO an Mercurali abgedruckt, worin dieser zuerst seine Methode der Rhinoplastik bekannt macht - " Consultationes et responsa medicinalia" (Venedig 1587 -1604, 4 tomi; 1620 fol.) - "Hippocratis Coi opera . graece et latine" (Ib. 1588, fol.) - "Tractatus de compositione medicamentorum et de morbis oculorum et aurium" (Ib. 1590 ; 1601) - "Praelectiones Pisanae, sive . . . commentarii eruditissimi in Hippokratis Coi Prognostica, . . ." (Ib. 1597, fol.) "quibus accessere tractatus. de hominis generatione. . . a Marco Cornacchino ex ore ipsius . . . excepti, nunc primum . . . editi" (Ib. 1597, fol.; Frankf. 1602, fol.) - "Medicina practica seu de cognoscendis, discernendis . . . Omnibus . . . affectibus . Libri V" (Frankfurt 1602; Leyden 1623; Venedig 1627, fol.) u. s. w." Pagel, Hirsch IV, pp.209-210 Brambilla, p.61; Biogr. med. VI, pp.255-257; Dict. hist. III, pp.569-573.

Bullart's Academie des Sciences des Arts. - Paris: Bilaine, 1682, Kupferstich gestochenen von Nicolas II. de Larmessin (1632-1694), 188 x 140 auf 311 x 186 mm. Hieronymus Mercurialis (1530-1606) M.D. Padua. Professor of medicine at Padua and Pisa. Portr. Wellcome Inst. Hist. Med., R.Burgess No.1984.2.

Boissard's Icones Quinquaginta, 3. 1589, by T. de Bry, 192 x 138 cm. Hieronymus Mercurialis (1530-1606), M.D. Padua, Professor of medicine, wrote the first systematic textbook of dermatology and a history of the the attitudes and practice of the Greeks and Romans concerning diet, hygiene, bathing, and exercise. The portrait is half length to the left, in fur edged coat. Oval in rectangle, with ornament in corners. Geronimo Merucriali, "bekannter philologischer Mediciner, geb. zu Forli (Romagna) 30. Sept. 1530, studirte in Bologna, promovirte in Padua und liess sich dann in seiner Vaterstadt nieder. 1562 von seinen Landsleuten in einer besonderen politischen Mission zum Papste Pius IV. deputirt, wusste ihn dieser zum bleibenden Aufenthalt in Rom zu bewegen. Während der folgenden 7 Jahre widmete sich Mercuriali eifrig dem Studium der altclassischen Aerzte, folgte 1569 einem Rufe als Prof. nach Padua, wo er 18 Jahre lang blieb, siedelte 1587 in gleicher Eigenschaft nach Bologna über und endlich 1599 nach Pisa, von wo er sich kurz vor seinem 13. Nov. 1606 erfolgten Tode wieder nach seiner Vaterstadt zurückzog. Mercurali hat sich um die Medicin grosse Verdienste durch seine textkritischen Schriften über die Werke der Alten erworben. In dieser Beziehung sind zu nennen: "Censura et dispositio operum Hippocratis" (Venedig 1583; Frankf. 1585). Noch berühmter sind die: "Variarum lectionum libri IV etc." (Venedig 1571, 4.; Basel 1576; Paris 1585; Venedig 1588; 1598; 1601, fol.); sie enthalten kritische Abhandlungen über schwierige Stellen griechischer und römischer Schriftsteller. Ferner: "De arte gymnastica libri VI" (Venedig 1569, 1575, 1587, 1601; Paris 1577; Amsterdam 1672). Ausserdem schrieb er: "Nomothesaurus seu ratio lactandi infantes" (Padua 1550) - "De morbis cutaneis libri II et de omnibus corporis humani excrementis libri III" (Venedig 1570; Basel 1576) - "De pestilentia in universum, praesertim vero de Veneta et Patavina" (Venedig 1577 u. öfter) - "Tractatus de maculis pestiferis et de hydrophobia" (Padua 1580; Venedig 1601) - "De morbis muliebribus praelectiones" (Basel 1582; Venedig 1601, 1608) - "De morbis puerorum" (Venedig 1583, 1615) - "De venenis et morbis venenosis" (Frankf. 1584; Basel 1588; Venedig 1601) - "De decoratione liber; accedit de naribus et de reficiendo naso" (Venedig 1585; 1601; 1625); in der zweiten Ausgabe dieses Werkes findet sich der Brief von TAGLIACOZZO an Mercurali abgedruckt, worin dieser zuerst seine Methode der Rhinoplastik bekannt macht - " Consultationes et responsa medicinalia" (Venedig 1587 -1604, 4 tomi; 1620 fol.) - "Hippocratis Coi opera . graece et latine" (Ib. 1588, fol.) - "Tractatus de compositione medicamentorum et de morbis oculorum et aurium" (Ib. 1590 ; 1601) - "Praelectiones Pisanae, sive . . . commentarii eruditissimi in Hippokratis Coi Prognostica, . . ." (Ib. 1597, fol.) "quibus accessere tractatus. de hominis generatione. . . a Marco Cornacchino ex ore ipsius . . . excepti, nunc primum . . . editi" (Ib. 1597, fol.; Frankf. 1602, fol.) - "Medicina practica seu de cognoscendis, discernendis . . . Omnibus . . . affectibus . Libri V" (Frankfurt 1602; Leyden 1623; Venedig 1627, fol.) u. s. w." Pagel, Hirsch IV, pp.209-210 Brambilla, p.61; Biogr. med. VI, pp.255-257; Dict. hist. III, pp.569-573.

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Hieronymus Mercurialis [Girolamo MERCURIALE] De arte gymnastica libri sex? Venice, Apud Juntas [Giunta], 1573 8vo., sympathetically bound in modern vellum with string-tied binding; evidence of a leather label now lacking from backstrip (with impression remaining); red speckled edges; collation *6, A-C8, D10, E-S8, T10, V8, X6 complete with all 20 full-page woodcut illustrations, one in-text, and two full-page plans showing layouts of the Palaestra; all continuous with signatures; along with numerous woodcut initials and title vignette; an excellent, bright example, one or two pages very slightly browned, one or two small holes and closed tears, and wormholes throughout the text, all repaired, for the most part affecting the margins only (occasionally impacting one or two letters); some faded ink annotations to the margin of p. 192; minor tidemark affecting the upper margin of the latter quarter of the text block only; vellum slightly splayed, as is common; a very good example of this scarce work. Second edition, first illustrated, dedicated to the Emperor Maximillian II. The first edition had appeared in 1569. Several editions followed, duplicating the illustrations which appear here for the first time. The best-known work of the Italian philologist and physician Girolamo Mercuriale (1530-1606), whose early studies into the classical and medical writers of Ancient Greece and Rome culminated in the publication of the present volume. An extremely significant edition of a work which explores the importance of sports and gymnastics in the Ancient world, as well as one of the earliest books to discuss the impact of movement on general health and fitness. Considered to be one of the first texts in the West to discuss the importance of sports medicine, the plates depict discus throwing, pugilism (one of the first representations of a boxing match), acrobatics, juggling, and swings for women, as as well techniques for the binding of hands to be used in wrestling. Mercuriale was careful to distinguish between three different types of gymnastics; military (pyrrhics), a type of war dance performed in the wrestling grounds as part of gymnasium training (which he considers a necessary evil); competitive gymnastics (of which he disapproves); and medical gymnastics, which he endorses. As well as listing numerous texts by Greek and Latin authors on the subject of sports and gymnastics, Mercuriale also touches on the importance of a healthy balanced diet, bathing naked and general physical hygiene for the importance of a healthy and balanced life. Following this publication, Mercuriale was appointed chair of practical medicine in Padua in 1569. He continued to write; his treatise on skin disease De morbis cutaneis was published in 1572, and others such as De morbis muliebribus ("On the diseases of women, 1582) and De morbis puerorum ("On the diseases of children, 1583) soon followed. His reputation continued to grow, though his mistreatment of a plague outbreak in Venice in 1575 (in which he ordered quarantine restrictions to be lifted in order to treat the sick) sabotaged this somewhat. Within two years, over one third of the population of Venice succumbed to the disease, partly due to the spread of infection his actions caused. The illustrations present here are reproduced after designs by Pirro Ligorio (1512-1582), a draftsman, architect, painter, landscaper, and antiquarian who designed the Villa d'Este at Tivoli, famous for its architectural features such as fountains and ornamental basins, as well as its terraced Italian gardens. Ligorio was also responsible for the excavations of Hadrian's villa in Rome. Scarce in such condition.