Order Total (1 Item Items):
Shipping Destination:
Hieronymus Mercurialis Girolamo Mercuriale Christophorus (2 results)
Feedback
Skip to main search results
Search filters
Product Type
- All Product Types
- Books (2)
- Magazines & Periodicals (No further results match this refinement)
- Comics (No further results match this refinement)
- Sheet Music (No further results match this refinement)
- Art, Prints & Posters (No further results match this refinement)
- Photographs (No further results match this refinement)
- Maps (No further results match this refinement)
- Manuscripts & Paper Collectibles (No further results match this refinement)
Condition
- All Conditions
- New (No further results match this refinement)
- Used (2)
Binding
- All Bindings
- Hardcover (2)
- Softcover (No further results match this refinement)
Collectible Attributes
- First Edition (No further results match this refinement)
- Signed (No further results match this refinement)
- Dust Jacket (1)
- Seller-Supplied Images (1)
- Not Print on Demand (2)
Language (1)
Price
- Any Price
- Under US$ 25 (No further results match this refinement)
- US$ 25 to US$ 50 (No further results match this refinement)
- Over US$ 50
Free Shipping
- Free Shipping to U.S.A. (No further results match this refinement)
Seller Location
Seller Rating
-
De Arte Gymnastica
Published by Editions Medicina Rara 1977 ?, New York & Stuttgart, GE, 1977
Seller: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Seller rating 2 out of 5 stars
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.".
-
De Arte Gymnastica Libri Sex : In Quibus Evercitationum Omnium Vetustarum Genera, Loca, Modi, Facultates, & Quidquid Denique ad Corporis Humani Exercitationes Pertinet Diligenter Explicatur: Hieronymi Mercurialis Foroliviensis
Published by Amsterdam: Sumptibus Andreae Frisii; Andreas Frisius, 1672
Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
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).
