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PARACELSUS (ca. 1493-1541). Etliche Tractetlein zur Archidoxa gehrig. [Edited by Joannes Albertus Wimpineus]. Munich: Adam Berg, 1570.
4o (205 x 149 mm). Collation: A-I4. 36 leaves, unfoliated. Woodcut portrait of Paracelsus on title verso, 2 woodcut diagrams in text. (Some mostly marginal dampstaining.) Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over pasteboard (rebacked).
FIRST EDITION of this supplement to Archidoxa (and sometimes bound together). It includes tracts on the use of magnets in medicine, occult philosophy, the correct administration of medicine, and how to extract poisons from venemous animals. BM/STC German p. 137; Sudhoff 128; Wellcome 4779a; Norman 1638.
4o (205 x 149 mm). Collation: A-I4. 36 leaves, unfoliated. Woodcut portrait of Paracelsus on title verso, 2 woodcut diagrams in text. (Some mostly marginal dampstaining.) Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over pasteboard (rebacked).
FIRST EDITION of this supplement to Archidoxa (and sometimes bound together). It includes tracts on the use of magnets in medicine, occult philosophy, the correct administration of medicine, and how to extract poisons from venemous animals. BM/STC German p. 137; Sudhoff 128; Wellcome 4779a; Norman 1638.