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FIORAVANTI, Leonardo (d. 1588). Three Exact Pieces of...together with a Book of Excellent Experiments and Secrets...whereunto is Annexed Paracelsus his One hundred and fourteen Experiments...Also Isaac Hollandus his Secrets... Translated by John Hester. London: G. Dawson for William Nealand, 1652.
4 parts in one volume, 4o (180 x 135 mm). (Main title-page browned and chipped at edges, short tear on H1 with loss of a few letters, some smoke-darkening at extremes of margins.) Contemporary English calf (rebacked, later endpapers). Provenance: "Phioraunts Secrets in Surgery" (early inscription on title-margin).
First Collected Edition. Translated by John Hester (d. ca. 1593), one of the leading popularizers of Paracelsian medicine, this work includes several works by the Italian Paracelsian Leonardo Fioravanti. Fioravanti was a native of Bologna where he was born in the earlier part of the sixteenth century. He studied medicine and practiced in Palermo from 1548 to 1550, before travelling and eventually returning to Bologna. This collection also includes a printing in English of experiments and cures of Paracelsus. Hester's translations were the only English versions of Paracelsian thought available until the middle of the 17th-century. Sudhoff 370; Wing F-953; Norman 797.
4 parts in one volume, 4o (180 x 135 mm). (Main title-page browned and chipped at edges, short tear on H1 with loss of a few letters, some smoke-darkening at extremes of margins.) Contemporary English calf (rebacked, later endpapers). Provenance: "Phioraunts Secrets in Surgery" (early inscription on title-margin).
First Collected Edition. Translated by John Hester (d. ca. 1593), one of the leading popularizers of Paracelsian medicine, this work includes several works by the Italian Paracelsian Leonardo Fioravanti. Fioravanti was a native of Bologna where he was born in the earlier part of the sixteenth century. He studied medicine and practiced in Palermo from 1548 to 1550, before travelling and eventually returning to Bologna. This collection also includes a printing in English of experiments and cures of Paracelsus. Hester's translations were the only English versions of Paracelsian thought available until the middle of the 17th-century. Sudhoff 370; Wing F-953; Norman 797.