Basel 1582 Contemporary vellum soiled and loosening to inner hinge. Title page. Introduction and index 22pp . Text 1-415.Text in Latin. Last gathering detached. Wood showing to inner board. This is a source work of medieval magic that gives complete sets of zodiacal lames characters and planetary sigils with full details for their manufacture and consecration often omitted by later writers. Paracelsus is essentially concerned with the practical applications of magic especially with regard to healing rather than the extravagant fantasies of theorists. His sections on alchemy include details of the planetary spirits the conjunction of the male and female principles and each step on the path to the Tincture - -one of the most complete descriptions in the whole Hermetic canon. Paracelsus outlines techniques for the exorcism of evil spirits conjuration and counteracting witchcraft. Basel 1582 hardcover
Strassburg: Heirs of Lazarus Zetzner 1618. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Four parts and appendix in one volume. Folio. 12 148 2 149-329 1 2 330-523 1 3 525-795 39 pp. Without the final blank. Signature: :6 A-L6 M-N4 O-Z6 Aa-Dd6 Ee8 Ff-V6 Xx8 Yy-Zz6 Aaa-Yyy6 Zzz4 Aaaa4 Bbbb6 -4Bbbb6. Woodcut title-page in red and black by Ludwig Frig after Christoph Murer portrait of Paracelsus 3 separate part titles with large printer's devices 3 text illustrations. Contemporary elaborately blind-tooled pigskin with original clasps present but lacks one piece of the front cover clasp-end front free endpaper torn from damp and repaired owner's entry dated 1717 on title-page old stamp and inscription partly pasted over with paper; light dampstains in upper and lower margin front and rear endpapers and final few leaves affected from mold in lower margin some browning and occasional spotting margins stronger affected. Provenance: Krown & Spellman Collection. Still a very good copy in original binding. ---- VD17 3:301630V; Sudhoff 302; Bruning 1262; Ferguson Paracelsiana 146; Mook 192; BL 17th German B1812; Wellcome I 4812; Krivatsy/NLM 8568; Brunet IV 357. Graesse V 127. - Second Collected Strassburg Edition with added materials. "Paracelsus was one of the most controversial and dazzling figures on the threshold between the Middle Ages to Modern Times. Trained as a physician and surgeon he tried to overcome certain medical and philosophical concepts common at his time. He replaced them with a natural philosophy comprising a peculiar mixture of Neoplatonic lore and Christian thought based on the Biblical word. Deeply influenced by the ideas of medieval alchemy both theoretical and practical he believed in the importance of experience in contrast to mere speculative theories. Following alchemical guidelines he introduced a number of new medicinal preparations which would become influential for centuries. His attempt to explain bodily processes as alchemical operations smoothed the way for a new insight into the physiological functioning of the human body. Disappointed by the lack of approval by his colleagues Paracelsus at times resorted to theology wandering about as a lay-preacher philosophically interpreting the Bible and writing religious tracts. During his lifetime only a very few of his writings appeared in print the bulk to be edited after his death between 1560 and 1600. Surpassed in Early-Modern times only by Martin Luther Paracelsus as a German language writer produced a multiplicity of treatises the medical and natural philosophical tracts equaling the theological ones in number." Urs Leo Gantenbein The Zurich Paracelsus Project. "Dieser chirurgische Band der deutschen Folioausgabe ist ganz anders zu beurteilen als die beiden medicinisch - philosophischen B�nde: er ist abgesehen von der Gro�en Wundarznei ein vollst�ndig neues Werk nach Husers Handschrift gedruckt und von allergr��tem Werte f�r die Kenntniss Hohenheims f�r die er mit den 11 B�nden der Baseler Quartausgabe die wichtigste Grundlage bildet" Sudhoff. Heirs of Lazarus Zetzner hardcover
Kessinger Publishing LLC. PAPERBACK. 1425350445 Kessinger large paperback; underlined; writing in text and on back cover . Good. Kessinger Publishing, LLC paperback
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