Sammelband with 3 rare works all in first edition

PARACELSUS, Theophrastus (Bombast von Hohenheim).

Dreyzehen Bücher des hoch gelehrten und weit beruempten Herren D. Theophrasti Paracelsi... / Drei Bücher von wunden und schäden, ... / Archidoxorum des Hochgelehrten und weit berümptesten Herrn D. Theophrasti Paracelsi X. Bücher.

Basel: Peter Perna, 1563.

1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Item #002230

I. Dreyzehen Bücher des hoch gelehrten und weit beruempten Herren D. Theophrasti Paracelsi inn welchen gemelt wirt volkomne und warhaffte Cur vieler und schwerer Kranckheyten so bis anher von andern Artzten fuer unheilsam geacht worden. Basel: Peter Perna, 1571. 48 unnumbered leaves. Signatures: A-M⁴. Title with woodcut illustration. Internally little browned, a few faint dampstains, closed tear to E4, final 4 leaves folded-in to protect catchwords. [Bound after:] II. Drei Bücher von wunden und schäden, sampt allen jren zufellen, und derselben vollkommener Cur. Frankfurt: Heirs of Christian Egenolph, 1563. [16], 68 pp. Signatures: a-b⁴ A-R⁴. Colophon on R4r. Title printed in red and black and with woodcut vignette, 2 fine full-page woodcut illustrations on recto and verso of leaf b4 (one depicting a surgeon's equipment), a few leaves folded-in to protect marginals, margins trimmed close just touching two marginal letters on p.2. Internally little browned, faint dampstains to fore-margin, lower corner of leaf Q2 torn with loss (not affecting text). [Bound before:] III. Archidoxorum des Hochgelehrten und weit berümptesten Herrn D. Theophrasti Paracelsi X. Bücher... Basel: Peter Perna, 1572. 43 (of 121) unnumbered leaves only (signatures H2-F3), lacking the 8 preliminary leaves (including title), 78 unnumbered leaves. Little browning, one leaf with underlings in ink. 4to (172 x 133 mm). Bound in 19th century simple three-quarter sheep, spine handlettered (rubbed, soiled and chipped at extremities), rear pastedown with recipe in contemporary hand. Provenance: Selbourne library (small stamp on J4r). The first two works collates complete, the third work is a fragment of two tracts which are complete in itself. -----

I. Sudhoff 130; Wellcome 4784; not in NLM/Durling. First Edition. This book contains medical works, he writes about cures of serious illness which "up to now have been considered incurable by the physicians".
II. Sudhoff 53; NLM/Durling 3459 (imperfect); not in Wellcome. First edition. Deals mainly with the surgical treatment of military wounds.
III. Sudhoff 142; not in Wellcome or NLM/Durling. Here present a fragment of the Archidoxorum comprising the first two tracts "De Tempore" and "De Imaginibus", both in first edition.

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