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  • Complan : the front runner / Crookes Healthcare Limited ; in association with Athletics Weekly.

    • Crookes Healthcare Limited.
    Date
    [1992?]
    • Ephemera
    • Online
  • An essay on the systematic training of the body / by Charles Henry Schaible ; a memorial essay, published on the occasion of the first centenary festival of Friedrich Ludwig Jahn ; with an etching by Hubert Herkomer.

    • Schaible, Karl Heinrich, 1824-1899.
    Date
    1878
    • Books
    • Online
  • A guide to the physical training of youth of both sexes.

    • Phillips, John.
    Date
    1848
    • Books
    • Online
  • Congrès international de l'éducation physique : 20 mars 1913 : menu / Palais d'Orsay.

    • Congrès international de l'éducation physique (1913 : Paris, France)
    Date
    1913
    • Ephemera
    • Online
  • Manual of physical exercises : comprising gymnastics, rowing, skating, fencing, cricket, calisthenics, sailing, swimming, sparring, base ball : together with rules for training and sanitary suggestions / by William Wood.

    • Wood, William, of New York.
    Date
    1870
    • Books
    • Online
  • Health by exercise : What exercises to take and how to take them, to remove special physical weakness. Embracing an account of the Swedish methods, and a summary of the principles of hygiene / By Geo. H. Taylor, M. D.

    • Taylor, Geo. H. (George Herbert), 1821-1896.
    Date
    1880
    • Books
    • Online
  • Organs of the body performing gymnastic exercises; representing courses in physical culture taught by Edmond Desbonnet. Colour lithograph.

    • Desbonnet, Edmond.
    Date
    [between 1900 and 1909?]
    Reference
    744279i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • Broom's international course : lesson 6 / by H. Broom, world's premier physical culture expert, Broom Halll, Holderness Road, Hull.

    • Broom, H.
    Date
    [between 1930 & 1939?]
    • Books
  • De arte gymnastica libri sex. In quibus exercitationum vetustarum genera, loca, modi, facultates, & quidquid denique ad corporis humani exercitationes pertinet diligenter explicatur / Hieronymi Mercurialis Foroliviensis.

    • Mercuriale, Girolamo, 1530-1606.
    Date
    1672
    • Books
  • Sports instructors; advertising the career of sports instructor for young people in France. Colour lithograph after P. Favier, 1946.

    • Favier, P., graphic designer, active 1946.
    Date
    [1946?]
    Reference
    5158i
    • Pictures
  • "The house I live in" : a guide to the preservation of health and the attainment of longevity : being a condensed treatise on the importance of physical education, and on the subject of bathing / by J.W. Ford.

    • Ford, J. W.
    Date
    1838
    • Books
    • Online
  • Broom's international course : lesson 2 / by H. Broom, world's premier physical culture expert, Broom Halll, Holderness Road, Hull.

    • Broom, H.
    Date
    [between 1930 & 1939?]
    • Books
  • What doesn't kill us : how freezing water, extreme altitude, and environmental conditioning will renew our lost evolutionary strength / Scott Carney ; foreword by Wim Hof.

    • Carney, Scott, 1978-
    Date
    2017
    • Books
  • The spastic child : a record of successfully achieved muscle control in Little's disease / by Marguerie K. Fischel.

    • Fischel, Marguerite K.
    Date
    1934
    • Books
  • You xue cao shen / Paul H. King, Chai Ju-chou.

    • King, Paul Henry, 1853-
    Date
    1890
    • Books
  • Report (prepared under the direction of the late School Board for London) : with regard to industrial schools, 1870 to 1904.

    • London (England). School Board
    Date
    [1904]
    • Books
  • Training in theory and practice / by Archibald Maclaren.

    • Maclaren, Archibald, 1819-1884.
    Date
    1866
    • Books
    • Online
  • Exercise in education and medicine.

    • McKenzie, R. Tait (Robert Tait), 1867-1938.
    Date
    1915
    • Books
    • Online
  • Gymnastique de l'opposant : uniquement fondée sur l'anatomie et la physiologie de l'homme / par J.-L Pichery.

    • Pichery, J.-L. (Jules-Léandre), 1811-
    Date
    [1870]
    • Books
    • Online
  • Physical efficiency; a review of the deleterious effects of town life upon the population of Britain : with suggestions for their arrest.

    • Cantlie, James, 1851-1926.
    Date
    1906
    • Books
    • Online
  • Body building ephemera. Box 1.

    • Charles Atlas Limited.
    • Ephemera
  • Manuel de gymnastique : hygiénique et médicale / du Gymnase de Chambre Pichery.

    • Pichery, J.-L. (Jules-Léandre), 1811-
    Date
    1857
    • Books
    • Online
  • A medical officer enquires as to the veracity of a Scot's weak heart. Line block after C. Graves, 1919.

    • Graves, Charles L. (Charles Larcom), 1856-1944.
    Date
    1919
    Reference
    15412i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • Chas. E. Lord's chart of healthful exercises : for women and children : Producing a beautiful and graceful figure / [by Charles E. Lord ; illustrated by Percy R. Thomson].

    • Lord, Charles E.
    Date
    [between 1910 and 1919?]
    • Books
  • Physical culture for men, women and children (Ling-Swedish system) : an easy method of acquiring and preserving health and strength without apparatus, by a fifteen minutes' morning exercise / Arthur Edmund Tanner.

    • Tanner, Arthur Edmund.
    Date
    1894
    • Books
    • Online
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