Important Sammelband in original binding including Paracelsus' Opus chyrurgicum in 1st edition

PARACELSUS, Theophrastus (Bombast von Hohenheim) / RYFF, Walther Hermann / HOULLIER, Jacques (HOLLERIUS, Jacobus).

Opus chyrurgicum, warhaffte unnd vollkomne Wundartznei ...; darinn begriffen wie die Wunden, offnen Schäden, Gewächs, Gebresten, Frantzosen, Blatern, Beulen, Lähmi, allerley Zufäll unnd Kranckheiten, auch kalter und warmer Brandt, Fistel und Wolff ... curiert werden sollend / Die grosz Chirurgei, oder volkommene Wundtartzenei; chirurgischen Handtwirckung eigentlicher Bericht, und Inhalt alles so der Wundartznei angehörig; mit künstlicher Fürmalung, klarer Beschreibung . . . aller hierzu dienlicher und gebreuchlicher Instrument oder Ferrament / De Materia chirurgica libri tres, recens aucti authore atque recogniti.

Strassburg / Frankfurt am Main / Paris: Messerschmidt / Egenolff / Wechel, 1564.

1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Item #003467

PARACELSUS, Theophrastus (Bombast von Hohenheim). Opus chyrurgicum, warhaffte unnd vollkomne Wundartznei . . .; darinn begriffen wie die Wunden, offnen Schäden, Gewächs, Gebresten, Frantzosen, Blatern, Beulen, Lähmi, allerley Zufäll unnd Kranckheiten, auch kalter und warmer Brandt, Fistel und Wolff ... curiert werden sollend. Strassburg: Paulo Messerschmidt, 1564. [20], CCCCLXII (i.e. CCCCLXIV) pp., CCCCLXIIII-CCCCCXV (i.e. CCCCCXVI) ff. Signatures: *⁴ A-Z⁶, Aa-Zz⁶, AA-BB⁶, CC⁴. Title printed in red and black, woodcut initials, including blank leaf *4. [Bound after:] II. RYFF, Walther Hermann. Die grosz Chirurgei, oder volkommene Wundtartzenei; chirurgischen Handtwirckung eigentlicher Bericht, und Inhalt alles so der Wundartznei angehörig; mit künstlicher Fürmalung, klarer Beschreibung . . . aller hierzu dienlicher und gebreuchlicher Instrument oder Ferrament. Frankfurt am Main: C. Egenolff, 1545. [6], CLXXXIX ff. Signatures: [trefoil]⁶, a-z⁶, A-H⁶, I⁴. Title printed in red and black and with large woodcut illustration printed in red and black, woodcut initials, final blank leaf I4. [Bound before:] III. HOULLIER, Jacques (HOLLERIUS, Jacobus). De Materia chirurgica libri tres, recens aucti authore atque recogniti. Paris: Christian Wechel, 1552. [20], 154, [2] pp. Printer's device on title page and leaf N6 verso, general index and final errata leaf, woodcut initials. Signatures: a⁶, b⁴, A-N⁶. Text generally crisp and clean with very little even browning throughout, a few short tears to blank margins, few occasional ink smudges, wormtrack to lower blank margin of final gatherings C-I. Bound in contemporary blind-tooled pigskin, spine lettered in ink and with 4 raised bands, upper board with additional ink lettering and blind-stamped and silver supralibros (monastic coat of arms monogrammed M.A.L., silver oxidized), ties gone, original untouched endpapers (minor rubbing of extremities, corners bumped and worn, some worming of inner boards and pastedowns). Text generally quite crisp and clean with only very little browning and occasional very minor spotting, the first 3 leaves somewhat frayed at fore-edge, minor worming at lower blank margin of final leaves well away from the text field. Provenance: Johann Baptist Werloschnig* (inscribed and dated on first title "Joan Bapt. by Werloschnig phil. and med. D[octo]ris Austriaci medici et physici Vücklapontani ordinarii 1702"), illegible ink stamp on first title. The entire text copiously annotated and marked in black ink, most likely by former owner Werloschnig. An exceptionally well preserved Sammelband in untouched original binding. ----

Rare collection of three surgical works which are among the most important of its time.
I. VD16 P 460; Sudhoff, Bibliographia Paracelsica 62, NLM/Durling 3464; Not in Wellcome and Waller. EXCEPTIONALLY RARE FIRST EDITION of Paracelsus' works in five books on surgery and the tratment of infectious diseases including syphilis, edited and published by Adam von Bodenstein, and printed in Strassburg by Messerschmidt. Bodenstein originally planned the publication in Frankfurt timely to the autumn book fair, but this was abandoned possibly because of conflicts with the Frankfurt editors and privilege owners of parts of the text (see Sudhoff, p.96). However, an unauthorized reprint appeared the following year in Frankfurt by Feyerabend and Hüter (Sudhoff 69). Bodenstein was one of the most influential translators of the works of Paracelsus. He published over 40 Paracelsian titles from 1560, which had a tremendous influence on the later development of Paracelsianism. Since he published these texts without the consent of the Basel medical faculty, he was expelled from 'Facultet & Consilio' of the Basel University.
II. VD16-R 3910; Benzing, Ryff 158; NLM/Durling 4016; Waller 8346; Cushing R345; not in Wellcome. RARE FIRST EDITION by the physician and pharmacist Walther Hermann Ryff (c. 1500-1548). "Ihm erst ist das medizinische Hausbuch schlechthin gelungen" (only he succeeded in creating the medical house book), (Benzing). The title woodcut shows a leg amputation, the text woodcuts with depictions of various medical instruments and their use. While Ryff became famous (or notorious) for his adaptations of Vesalian anatomical illustrations, this work contains illustrations borrowed from Gersdorff and Phryesen, but none with Vesalian association.
III. NLM/Durling 2489. Not in Wellcome and Waller. RARE THIRD EDITION of a work first published in Paris in 1543 as book 6 of J. Tagault's De chirurgica institutione.
* Johann Baptist Werloschnig (1670- circa 1750), Austrian physician, trained at the University of Graz; he practiced in this city as well as in Linz and Ljubljana.

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