PARACELSUS (1493-1541)

Etliche Tractaten zum ander mal in Truck aufgangen. Vom Podagra und seinen speciebus. Vom Schlag. Von der Fallender Sucht. Von der Daubsucht oder unsinnigkeit. Vom Kaltenwehe. Von der Colica. Von dem Bauchreissen. Von der Wassersucht. Vom Schwinen oder Aridura. Vom Schwinen oder Schwindtsucht, Hectica. Von Farbsuchten. Von Würmen. Vom Stullauff. Item newlich hinzu getruckt: Von den Podagrischen Kranckheiten, und auch was in anhengig ein Fragmentum. Gedruckt zu Cöln, durch die Erben Arnoldi Birckmanni. Anno 1567... [Colophon:] Zu Cöln truckts Gerhart Vierenduntk, in verlegung Arnoldi Birckma...

Cologne: Gerhard Virendunck for the heirs of Arnold Birckmann, 1567.
4to: A--2N4 2O2, 146 leaves, pp. [8] 270 (i.e. 281, numerous errors in pagination) [3] last page blank. Gothic letter with Roman headings. Full page woodcut portrait on verso of title. [bound with:] *Astronomica et astrologia* ... Getruckt zu Cöln, bey Arnoldi Byrckmans Erben, Anno 1567. [Colophon:] Zu Cöln truckts Gerhart Vierendunck, in verlägung Arnoldi Birckmans Erben. *Cologne:* Gerhard Virendunck for the heirs of Arnold Birckmann, 1567. 4to: *4 A6 B--2H4, 130 leaves, pp. [20] 235 (i.e. 236) [4] (last page blank). Title within a border of fleurons, full-page woodcut portrait on A5v, astrological diagram on p. 197, author's arms on 2H3v and a full-page portrait on 2H4r dated 1538 (a different portrait from that on A5v). Leaf size and condition: 197 x 142mm. I: Short tear in upper margin of title; light browning, tear in M4 repaired without loss. A very good fresh copy. II: upper margins of first two leaves strengthened, short tears in upper margins of titles; moderately heavy foxing or browning. Good fresh copies. Binding: Contemporary blindstamped calf over wooden boards, lettered on upper board 'Des hochgelerten Theophrasti', brass clasps, three raised bands on spine. Worn, headcap chipped front free endleaf removed. Provenance and annotation: Alchemical symbols in the margins of a 9 pages. Walter Pagel (1896--1983); B. E. J. Pagel (1930--2007). References: I: Sudhoff 92; Ferguson Paracelsus 59; VD16 P443; Durling 3478; II: Sudhoff 85; Ferguson, Paracelsus 56; VD16 P402.
Second edition of Etliche tractaten (first 1564); first edition of Astronomica et astrologia.
§ Two works by Paracelsus in a splendid, and unrestored, contemporary blind-stamped calf binding. Etliche tractaten. A collection of 14 medical tracts, the first and last of which deal with gout. Paracelsus was the first to suggest that the gout was due to a defect in metabolism. Gout was central to discussions of the efficacy of the new chemical remedies as it was a condition which traditional drugs were unable to treat. Astronomica et astrologia. A work dealing with astrology and prognostication and including a chapter explaining solar eclipses, edited by Balthassar Flöter. 'Paracelsus believed that the microcosmic sate of man permitted the study of the universe, so that science and knowledge are possible. He called the study of nature and medicine "astronomy," and urged that every physician be an astronomer -- that is, that he study the astra. Paracelsus' term astra deonted not so much the stars themselves and their influences on sublunary objects (so important in traditional astrology) as their essential virtues and functions of individual objects and their correspondences within all realms of nature, including the stars.' (Walter Pagel, DSB 10:308b.)

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