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PARACELSUS, Theophrastus Philippus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim (c.1493-1541). A hundred and foureteene Experiments and Cures of the famous Physitian Philippus Aureolus Teophrastus Paracelsus. London: Valentin Sims, 1596.
4° (180 x 130mm). Title within typographical border and with small woodcut printer's device. (Small wormhole to title, tiny paperflaw to printed surface of B1, a few printed sidenotes cropped.) 17th-century speckled calf (rebacked). Provenance: Mercantile Library Philad[elphia] (red stamp on lower margin of final page and verso of title).
RARE SECOND EDITION, THE FIRST OBTAINABLE, OF ONE OF THE VERY FEW 16TH CENTURY PARACELSIAN TEXTS IN ENGLISH. This collection of iatrochemical treatises was translated by the 'practitioner in the Spagericall Arte', John Hester, from the Centum quindecim curationes of 1582. The undated first English edition appeared in 1583 or 1584. Sudhoff (505) had not seen a copy, and refers to Ferguson's Bibliographia Paracelsica, which locates a copy at the Bodleian. This is confirmed by STC to be the only recorded copy of the first English edition. The main text gives 114 short case histories, where Paracelsus successfully cured different diseases, followed by a collection of Penot's iatrochemical preparations. A Fragment out of the Theorickes of Johann Isaac Hollandus deals predominantly with the production of the Quinta Essentia, mainly by means of distillation. The concluding text by Joseph Duchesne is on the cure of gunshot-wounds. Durling 3517; STC 19180; Sudhoff 239; Wellcome 4805.
4° (180 x 130mm). Title within typographical border and with small woodcut printer's device. (Small wormhole to title, tiny paperflaw to printed surface of B1, a few printed sidenotes cropped.) 17th-century speckled calf (rebacked). Provenance: Mercantile Library Philad[elphia] (red stamp on lower margin of final page and verso of title).
RARE SECOND EDITION, THE FIRST OBTAINABLE, OF ONE OF THE VERY FEW 16TH CENTURY PARACELSIAN TEXTS IN ENGLISH. This collection of iatrochemical treatises was translated by the 'practitioner in the Spagericall Arte', John Hester, from the Centum quindecim curationes of 1582. The undated first English edition appeared in 1583 or 1584. Sudhoff (505) had not seen a copy, and refers to Ferguson's Bibliographia Paracelsica, which locates a copy at the Bodleian. This is confirmed by STC to be the only recorded copy of the first English edition. The main text gives 114 short case histories, where Paracelsus successfully cured different diseases, followed by a collection of Penot's iatrochemical preparations. A Fragment out of the Theorickes of Johann Isaac Hollandus deals predominantly with the production of the Quinta Essentia, mainly by means of distillation. The concluding text by Joseph Duchesne is on the cure of gunshot-wounds. Durling 3517; STC 19180; Sudhoff 239; Wellcome 4805.
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