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MERCURIALE, Girolamo. De Arte Gymnastica Libri sex. Venice: Giunta, 1573.
4° in 8s (230 x 160mm). Title with small woodcut Giunta fleur-de-lys device, 2 woodcut plans, 21 full-page illustrations by Cristoforo Corialano, woodcut initials. Contemporary limp vellum (upper hinge broken, lacking ties). Provenance: Dr Hay (early 18th-century note on front endpaper 'Cost 40 pence at an auction of Dr Hay's books by Mr Freebairn 19 Feb. 1700').
A fine copy of the second and first-illustrated edition of Mercuriale's work on the exercises and games of the ancients. Adams M-1320; Mortimer/Harvard Italian 302.
4° in 8s (230 x 160mm). Title with small woodcut Giunta fleur-de-lys device, 2 woodcut plans, 21 full-page illustrations by Cristoforo Corialano, woodcut initials. Contemporary limp vellum (upper hinge broken, lacking ties). Provenance: Dr Hay (early 18th-century note on front endpaper 'Cost 40 pence at an auction of Dr Hay's books by Mr Freebairn 19 Feb. 1700').
A fine copy of the second and first-illustrated edition of Mercuriale's work on the exercises and games of the ancients. Adams M-1320; Mortimer/Harvard Italian 302.