Gymnastic Sportsbook from 1569 Mercuriale

Girolamo Mercuriale
Gymnastic Sportsbook from 1569 Mercuriale
Latin gymnastics book Artis gymnasticae apud antiquos celeberrimae, nostris temporibus ignoratae, libri sex: In quibus exercitationum omnium vetustarum, genera, loca, modi, facultates, & quicquid denique ad corporis humani exercitationes pertinet, diligenter explicatur. First edition. With wood carvings on title and multiply folded brass board. First edition of the most important earliest book about sport and sport hygiene, published in Venice 1569. With its explanations concerning the principles of physical therapy, it is considered the first book on sports medicine.120 numbered pages. Bound together with a text of the same author Hieronymus Mercuralis Variarum lectionum libri quator. This is the main medical-philosophical work of Mercuralis with famous critical paper about difficult part of 122 Greek and Roman writers, Venice 1570; 120 numbered pages. Plus a treatise of Alexander of Tralles about helminth with own cover. Venice 1570; 16 pages. Flexible parchment with some bad spots, holes, traces of usage, without binding. Some minor marks and stains, mostly clean and in good condition, marginal worm casts through the first pages. Otherwise good copy for a book that is nearly 500 years old. Important work in sport histora. Rare. 120 numbered pages, 50.5x15.5 cm. Giunta, Venice 1569.