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SABBATHIER, FRANÇOIS. Les Exercices du Corps chez les Anciens, pour servir à l'Éducation de la Jeunesse. [4], xii, 400; [4], 290, xvii pages, including half-titles. 2 volumes. 8vo, modern marbled boards with leather lettering pieces; Volume 1 opening leaves browned, scattered foxing. Bookplates of Arvid Erikson. Paris: (Seneuze for) Delalain & Hérissant, 1772
first edition of a study of various forms of athletics in Greco-Roman antiquity, with sections on dance, spheristics, gymnastics, wrestling and boxing, foot racing, the pentathlon, discus throwing, and horse racing, including comments on health benefits and miscellaneous medical topics.
