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153429859Colophon: Basel apud Andream Cratandrum 1534. Folio. Nice hcalf from ab. 1750 richly gilt back gilt title-label. Corners a bit bumped. Slightly rubbed. Woodcut printer's device to title and last leaf. 282642 pp. With many smaller and larger woodcut initials. Small stamp at lower corner of the first 2 leaves. Some rather faint dampstainings to first and last leaves otherwise clean and with broad margins. Engraved book-plate inside front board Bibliotheque du comte Le Moyne de Martigny. <br/><br/><em>Very scarce edition of Theophrastus' two main works. It is one of the earliest Latin editions of Gaza's esteemed translation in reality it is the third printing of the first Latin edition first issued 1483 then 1529 in 8vo and now 1534 of the works which together constitute the foundation of scientific botany. By Linnaeus Theophrastus is called "the father of Botany". This edition comprises both botanical works The History of Plants and The Causes of Plants which have survived in their entirety and are the earliest books of this kind in world literature."It is very strange that so much botanic knowledge should have been accumulated by the end of the fourth century and that so little if anything was added to it in ancient times. Theophrastos is not only the first botanic writer but also the greatest until Renaissance of the sixteenth century in Germany.The botany of Theophrastos and the zoölogy of Aristotle represents the climax of natural history in antiquity." Sarton in A History.Vol. I p. 558. "No study of plants of such breadth and quality had previously been conceived: botany now first appears as a distinct science with a comprehensive yet clearly defined field of enquiry." A.G. Morton. - Stillwell No. 702 Note - Hunt No. 26 listing the 1529-edition in 8vo - Pritzel: 9189. - Not in Choulant Handbuch der Bücherkunde für die Ältere Medicin. </em> unknown
352612<p>Schreiben von warmen oder Wildbäderen. Jetzunder fleissig mit des authoris scripto collacioniert vnnd publiciert Durch Doctor Adamen von Bodenstein. 8° 163x103 mm. 94 pp. title printed in black and red. Modern boards. Slight dampstaining. Basel Peter Perna 1576.</p><p>Rare first edition of a collection of Paracelsus' balneological treatises compiled by the spagyricist and private physician to the Elector Palatine Adam von Bodenstein 1528-1577. It contains the six treatises of the Baderbuchlin of 1562 as well as the famous description of the spa at Pfäfers Von des Bads Pfeffers im Grawen Bundt tugenden; pp. 65-91. The latter was first printed in 1535 by Froschauer in Zurich and then by Christian Muller in Strasbourg in 1571; both editions are very rare and only three copies of the first printing are known to us ZB Zurich BSB Munich and Augsburg City Library. Paracelsus' treatises are among the earliest works on hydrotherapeutics and include treatments for gout women's diseases lameness leprosy etc. The spas described are: Baden in Aargau Pfäfers Leukerbad Bad Gastein Teplitz Plombieres Göppingen etc. - Bodenstein's postface is dated "Bartholomey 1576" i.e. 24 August.</p><p>References: Fürberth Bäder-Bibliographie n° 13.4; cf. Hieronymus Theophrast und Galen - Celsus und Paracelsus I 2005 n° 192; Perini La vita e i tempi di Pietro Perna 2002 278; Sudhoff 172; VD 16 P-418; Durling 3505; STC German 137; Reber 29; Kühlmann/Telle Der Frühparacelsismus 2001 I 534f.and n° 30. - Not in Waller und Wellcome.</p> Basel, Peter Perna, 1576
1603197541603. Strassburg Lazarus Zetzner 1603 Folio 12 1127 52; 8 691 32 pp.; Tit. rot/schwarz allegor. Titelbordüre mit Portr. 62 Holzschnitten Pergamenteinband d.Zt.; Papier bedingt gebräunt; sehr gutes Expl. Erste Straßburger Folio-Edition selten wie alle Erstausgaben in deutscher Sprache! Aureoli Philippi Theophrasti Bombasts von Hohenheim Paracelsi . Opera : Bücher und Schrifften/ so viel deren zur Handt gebracht: und vor wenig Jahren/ mit und auß ihren . Originalien collacioniert/ vergliechen/ verbessert / und durch Joannem Huserum Brisgoium in zehen unterschiedliche Theil/ in Truck gegeben jetzund aber von newem in ein Corpus zusammen gebracht gebessert und mit Registern versehen. Argentorati Typis Lazari Zetzneri Anno 1603. Der erster Theil enthält u.a. die grundlegenden medizinisch-theoretischen und naturkundlich-iatrochemischen Schriften: Paramirum Lehre von den fünf Entien der Krankheiten Paragranum Programmschrift zur Reform der Medizin De morbis invisibilibus von den unsichtbaren Krankheitsursachen das Buch von der Gebärung die sogenannten Kärntner Schriften Labyrinthus medicorum errantium Defensiones Chronica Kärnten die Traktate Vom Tartaro / De morbis ex Tartaro die Abhandlung De morbis amentium über Geisteskrankheiten die berühmten Bergkrankheiten drei Bücher De morbis fossorum metallicorum den Kommentar zu den Aphorismen des Hippokrates sowie zentrale iatrochemische Hauptwerke: die Archidoxis erster Teil De natura rerum neun Bücher De praeparationibus und De tinctura physicorum. Der zweite Teil bildet die Fortsetzung und ergänzt den ersten Teil durch die chirurgischen medizinisch-praktischen sowie magisch-astrologischen Schriften. - Enthält u.a. die Große Wundarznei Chirurgia magna und die Kleine Wundarznei Chirurgia minor mit weiteren Chirurgischen Büchern und Schrifften u.a. zu Brüchen Geschwülsten Ulcera Verbrennungen und Harn-/Geschlechtsleiden den Traktat De vita longa über die Lebensverlängerung zusätzliche Pest- und Seuchenschriften De pestilitate sowie die für den Paracelsismus charakteristischen Schriften zur Magia und occulta philosophia zur Geister- Engel- und Dämonenlehre Imagination Besessenheit Exorzismus und zur Astrologia medica Einfluss der Gestirne auf Körper Temperament und Krankheiten daneben mehrere kürzere medizinisch-praktische Traktate als Ergänzung zu den Hauptwerken. "Die Ausgabe beruht vollständig auf der von Johann Huser 1589-1591 in Basel hrsg. Quart - Gesamtausgabe der deutschen Werke des Paracelsus; Zetzner übernimmt deren Textgestalt und Anordnung der Schriften nahezu unverändert im Folioformat." First folio edition in German of the collected works of Paracelsus based on Johann Huser's Basel quarto edition 1589-1591. Paracelsus helped transform medicine by fusing close observation chemistry and theology into a new experience-based healing art. He became one of the most influential and provocative medical thinkers of the sixteenth century. Garrison & Morton No. 3805: "De generatione stultorum" 2: pp.174-182: "Paracelsus was the first to note the coincidence of cretinism and endemic goitre". VD17 12:168467C; VD17 12:168390P; Osler 526; Sudhoff Paracelsus 256 & 257 unknown
155211254Paris: Adrien Turnebe. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1552. First Edition. Vellum. 6 blanks 24; 4 25 3 6 blanks pp. A small quarto 8" x 5". Full vellum with very neatly handwritten title in brown ink on the spine. Covers have normal minor wear. The paper used for theend papers and blanks is a close match to the text paper but with slightly wider chain lines. The first book is in Greek; the second de igne Lib. Eiusdem in Eundem Adnotatiunculae with the date of 1553 and is the Latin translation. Except for a very slight bit of toning and very occasional foxing the paper is clean strong and unmarked. Inside front cover has the bookplate of Thomas Gaisford 1779-1855 Dean of Christ Church curator of the Bodleian and delegate of the Oxford University Press. The first separate edition of Theophrastus's treatise on fire beautifully printed by Turnebe a specialist in Greek textual criticism and Director of the Royal Press. Theophrastus studied under Plato and was Aristotle's successor at the Peripatetic school. He was interested in philosophy especially in how it related to the natural world and his works on botany are famous. Here he looks at fire and tackles the idea of it as a "simple body" or first principle and seems to come to the conclusion -- contra Aristotle -- that fire cannot be an "element" because it relies on other principles for its existence. An important landmark of classical scholarship and printing in the first separate edition -- in both Greek and Latin -- nicely printed and in very good condition with lovely provenance. OCLC 645152760 ; 4to 11" - 13" tall . Adrien Turnebe hardcover
15646012<p>8vo. 112 ff pages 2 and 110-112 are blank. Bound in modern paneled calf with gilt-stamped fleurons on front and back covers raised bands. Generally good.<br /></p><p>The first edition of this plague treatise by Paracelsus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim 1493-1541 the "Luther of Medicine" and one of the key figures in the history of medicine. Written originally in Nördlingen in 1529-1530 it remained unpublished during Paracelsus' lifetime and subsequently taken up and edited for publication by the Paracelsian scholar Adam von Bodenstein 1528-1577. The latter dedicated it to Johann Rudolph Stör von Störenberg Abbot of Murbach and Luders. In addition to the study on pestilence the text includes two short works by Paracelsus: "Vom Preservatiff durch den Schwebel" and "Von der Mummia."</p><p>In the primary tract Paracelsus for the first time presents his complex theory on the origins of the plague which he believed were the result of astrological and corporeal events set in motion by human sins. "This anthropocentric view of an individual disease is in harmony with Paracelsus' whole philosophy and indeed with Renaissance philosophy in general" Pagel p. 179. Paracelsus also postulates the importance of the principle of sulphur the corresponding agent of the planet Mars in pestilence's causation. He believed that sulphur hidden in three minerals—antimony arsenic and marcasite—affected three corresponding organs: the groin the axillae and the ears.</p><p>The chapters on causation are followed by sections on remedies. The doctor must cure the agent causing the disease rather than the symptoms of the disease Paracelsus writes. Humoral pathology and its insistence on diet is of no use. "Paracelsus' plague remedies include sulphur spirit of vitriol sulphur sublimate and metals also—for external treatment of boils—toads and decoctions of beetles designed to remove the evil of magnetic attraction but herbs and drugs as prescribed by Ficino and Agrippa are greatly amplified and still appear in a prominent place" Pagel pp. 180-181 n. 151.</p><p>The editor of this volume Adam von Bodenstein was one of the key figures in the revival of Paracelsian ideas in the German lands in the middle of the sixteenth century. A son of a radical reformer he believed in transmutation of metals into gold and played a key role in the publication of over 80 works by Paracelsus. For his Paracelsianism he was excluded from the faculty and council of Basel University.</p><p>OCLC records US copies at NYAM NLM Wash. U and UMn.</p><p>Karl Sudhoff <i>Bibliographia Paracelsica</i> Berlin 1894 60; Walter Pagel <i>Paracelsus: An Introduction to Philosophical Medicine in the Era of the Renaissance</i> Boston 1982 2nd revised edition; Georgiana D. Hedesan "Alchemy Potency Imagination Paracelsus's Theories of Poison" in John Arrizabalaga Ole Peter Grell Andrew Cunningham eds. <i>It All Depends on the Dose: Poisons and Medicines in European History. The History of Medicine in Context Series</i> New York 2018 pp. 81-102; Peter J. Forshaw "'Paradoxes Absurdities and Madness:' Conflict over Alchemy Magic and Medicine in the Works of Andreas Libavius and Heinrich Khunrath" <i>Early Science and Medicine</i> vol. 13 no. 1 2008 pp. 53-81.</p> Paul Messerschmidt hardcover
1573622841573. Argentorati = Basel Petrus Perna 1573 2° 12 223 1 28; 2 250 36 pp.; 2 263 5 pp Ledereinband d.Zeit mit Rückenvergoldung; vereinzelt fleckig feines Expl. Erste Ausgabe! PHILIPPI AVREOLI THEOPHRASTI PARACELSI BOMBAST EREMITAE SVMMI INter Germanos Medici & Philosophi. CHIRVRGIA MAGNA in duos tomos digesta. . Nunc recens à IOSQVINO DALHEMIO OSTOFRANCO Medico Latinitate donata. Tomus I : De vulneribus et fracturis libri III. De ulceribus libri III. De tumoribus et aperturis libri III. Tomus II : De Tumoribus Pustulis & Ulceribus / Morbi Gallici Lib. X. De Curatione & Imposturis Morbi / Gallici Lib. Octo. & Aureoli Philippi THEOP. PARACELSI CHYRVRGIA MINOR QVAM ALIAS BERTHEONEAM INTITVLAVIT. CVI ETIAM SEQVENTES TRACTAtus accesserunt eiusdem authoris. De Apostematibus Syronibus & Nodis. De cutis apertionibus. De vulnerum & ulcerum curis. De Vermibus Serpentibus 6c. ac amculis à natiuitrate ortis. Dieser Band enthält die "Chirurgia magna" in zwei Tomi in lateinischer Übersetzung von Josquinus Dalhemius tätig 2. H. 16. Jh. humanistischer Übersetzer paracelsischer Schriften sowie die kürzere "Chirurgia minor" "Bertheonea" in der lateinischen Fassung des flämischen Arztes Alchemisten und Paracelsisten Gerhardus Dorn ca. 1530-ca. 1584. - Gedruckt von dem aus Lucca stammenden seit den 1540er-Jahren in Basel tätigen Humanisten- und Reformationsverleger Petrus Perna ca. 1519-1582. Die Chirurgia magna ist das zentrale chirurgische Werk Paracelsus' und dokumentiert seine praktische Wundarznei ebenso wie seine Reinterpretation traditioneller Krankheitslehren. In ihr treten seine Abkehr von der bloßen Galen Exegese sein empirisches Vorgehen am Krankenbett und sein Einsatz chemischer Präparate deutlich hervor; sie ist für das Verständnis der paracelsischen "Reformation der Medizin" unverzichtbar. Paracelsus betont systematisch die Bedeutung gründlicher Wundreinigung Drainage und Verhinderung von Fäulnis; die "gute Eiterung" der traditionellen Chirurgie wird kritisch relativiert und der Fokus stärker auf rasche "spezifische" Heilung gerichtet. Er beschreibt Trauma Frakturen Ulzera und Tumoren in enger Verbindung mit Umwelt und Stoffeinflüssen; damit wird die spätere Toxikologie vorbereitet Stichwort "Die Dosis macht das Gift" und eine spezifische substanzgebundene Krankheitsauffassung gefördert. Von besonderem Interesse auch für die frühe Geschichte der Neurochirurgie: Paracelsus behandelt in der Chirurgia magna Kopf- und Schädelverletzungen inkl. Indikationen zur Trepanation im Rahmen einer empirisch orientierten Wundchirurgie und verknüpft traumabedingte Lähmungen und Krampfzustände mit lokalen Strukturverletzungen statt ausschließlich mit humoral-systemischen Ursachen. Die Chirurgia minor ist der Teil des paracelsischen chirurgischen Werkes der am ehesten dem späteren Feld der Dermato-chirurgie und der frühen plastisch-rekonstruktiven Bemühungen entspricht - durch ihren Fokus auf Haut Weichteile Wunden Verbrennungen und Narbenführung immer vor dem Hintergrund von Paracelsus' chymischer Pathologie und spezifischer Arzneitherapie. Die Perna-Ausgabe von 1573 ist die erste große lateinische Gesamtausgabe der paracelsischen Chirurgie: Sie überführt die ursprünglich deutschsprachigen Wundarznei-Schriften Große und Kleine Chirurgie in ein gelehrtes europaweit rezipierbares Format und ist damit ein Schlüsselstück der frühen Paracelsus-Rezeption. Chirurgiegeschichtlich markiert der Band den Übergang von handwerklich-zunftgebundener Wundbehandlung zu einer spezifischen substanzgebundenen Therapieauffassung Toxikologie organspezifische Wirkungen Kritik an der "guten Eiterung" und ist für die Geschichte der Chirurgie wie der Pharmakologie gleichermaßen bedeutend. First major Latin edition of Paracelsus' surgical works containing the two tomes of the "Chirurgia magna" and the shorter "Chirurgia minor" in one folio volume. Translated into Latin by Josquinus Dalhemius and Gerard Dorn and printed by the Basel humanist printer Petrus Perna in 1573. Covers wounds fractures ulcers tumours and related conditions combining practical wound surgery with Paracelsus' innovative chymical pathology. Key document in the spread of Paracelsian medicine from German vernacular surgery into the international learned medical world. VD16 P 469; VD16 P 479 Sudhoff "Bibliographia Paracelsica" Nr. 146-148 unknown
7301Finely engraved title-page a trifle shaved at outer edge & 675 woodcuts in the text. 11 p.l. incl. engr. title 1187 i.e. 1185 87 pp. Folio cont. Dutch vellum over boards upper joint with small split of 7 cm. at foot minor pale dampstaining to first 20 leaves & last third of book panelled in blind central arabesque in blind to each cover ties gone. Amsterdam: H. Laurentius 1644.<br/> <br/> First edition to be edited by Joannes Bodaeus à Stapel; it “is one of the best and most thoughtfully prepared of all the editions of Theophrastos.â€â€“Hunt 240.<br/> <br/> H.H. Bartlett wrote in his Fifty-five Rare Books Ann Arbor: 1949 of this edition: “It is interesting not only because of the brilliance of the editing but curiously enough to the American botanist as well for involving in the discussion certain species from Virginia other parts of the New World and Asia. The illustrations of these plants have been largely overlooked in botanical history because of their incidental presence in a work which might not be expected to contain anything of the sort. Some were merely borrowed from l’Escluse or de Lobel but others seem to be original in this work.â€<br/> <br/> A fine and crisp copy. Bookplate of Piergiorgio Borio M.D.<br/> <br/> ⧠D.S.B. XIII pp. 328-34. See Garrison-Morton 1783. unknown
1644M14453Amstelodami: apud Henricum Laurentium 1644. 1644. Folio in 6s. 20 418 417-694 495-529 730-994 997-1187 1 88 pp. Numerous mispaginations noted. With the magnificent engraved title and 600-700 decorative botanical woodcuts. Text in 2 columns index not paginated parallel texts in Greek and Latin. Bound recently in full antique-style speckled calf richly gilt-tooled in a masterfully elegant binding; some neat paper mends to gutter front & back leaves some leaves variously stained at edges in the rear pages 950-988 browned. New endleaves. The splendid Bodaeus van Stapel edition of Theophrastus' seminal work Enquiry into Plants beautifully illustrated with hundreds of fine woodcuts of all the known plants. This is the first edition by edited by Johannes Bodaeus van Stapel 1602-1636 who died prior to the book being issued. This edition of Bodaeus van Stapel is the most important and influential edition of Theophrastus. The book is the first comprehensive systematization all known plants and as such important in the history of plant science. Plants of the new world America Asia and Africa are included. / The editor Bodaeus van Stapel is known for this particular work the Latin version of Theophrastus' Historia plantarum the text completed before his death in 1636 and published posthumously in Amsterdam in 1644 by his father. / Thomas Frognall Dibdin wrote of this edition: "This edition displays great care and research; the notes are numerous and learned and all botanical information to be gleaned from Aristotle Pliny Dioscorides and other ancient writers seems to be embodied in this work. The conjectures of Scaliger Constantine and Salmasius and also incorporated; and although Haller has censured Bodaeus for occasionally wandering from his subject and introducing a few errors the present this edition of 1644 is nevertheless an edition well deserving of the curious botanist's attention: for it has collected into one body the opinions of the old writers on the subject of plants. It contains some wood-cuts of the rarer species which are much better uncoloured than coloured." - Thomas Frognall Dibdin An Introduction to The Knowledge of Rare and Valuable Editions of the Greek and Latin Classics . . . London 1808 vol. II p. 285. / This edition of Theophrastis is "one of the best and most thoughtfully prepared of all the editions of Theophrastis" - Hunt. / "It is interesting not only because of the brilliance of the editing but curiously enough to the American botanist as well for involving in the discussion certain species from Virginia other parts of the New World and Asia. The illustrations of these plants have been largely overlooked in botanical history because of their incidental presence in a work which might not be expected to contain anything of the sort. Some were merely borrowed from l'Ecluse or de Lobel but others seem original in this work." - Harley Harris Bartlett Fifty-five Rare Books for the botanical library of Mrs. Roy Arthur Hunt. Clements Library 1949. / SEE: Theophrastus. Enquiry into Plants. With an English translation by Arthur Hort. Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1916. / McDiarmid J. B. 'Theophrastus.' In: Dictionary of Scientific Biography edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie. New York 1976. Vol XIII pp. 328-334. / Morton Alan G. History of Botanical Science. London and New York 1981. / Negbi Moshe. 'The scientific cradle of botany - Theophrastus and other pioneers.' In: Israel Journal of Plant Sciences vol 58 pp. 309-18. 2010. / Sharples Robert W. Theophrastus of Eresus. Sources for this Life Writings Thought and Influence. Commentary Vol. 5. Sources on Botany. Leiden: Brill 1995. apud Henricum Laurentium, 1644. unknown
164450986Amsterdam Heinric Laurentius 1644. Folio. Contemporary full vellum with neat later 19th century rebacking. Six raised bands and gilt title to spine. Some wear to extremities. Internally a fresh and clean copy with only a bit of occasional brownspotting. Endpapers with a bit of soiling. 2 bookplates to inside of front board: Gilbert Redgrave London dated 1894 & Gorden M. Jones Virginia. Text in Greek and Latin. Woodcut title-page numerous woodcut intials throughout and more than 600 woodcut illustrations in the text. 20 1187 1 88 - Index pp. <br/><br/><em>First edition thus being the most important and influential edition of Theophrastus' seminal work "Enquiry into Plants" - the first systematization of the botanical world and the most important contribution to botanical science up until the Renaissance. Bodaeus von Stapel's groundbreaking edition constitutes the first illustrated edition of Theophrastus' masterpiece as well as the first with both Greek and Latin text. Furthermore von Stapel has not only collected all relevant commentaries and knowledge he has also added corrections and much foundational information turning the work into one of the most influential botanical works of the 17th century profoundly influencing the likes of Linnaeus and contributing significantly to the development of modern scientific botany. "This edition displays great care and research; the notes are numerous and learned and all botanical information to be gleaned from Aristotle Pliny Dioscorides and other ancient writers seems to be embodied in this work. The Greek text is Heinsius's; the Latin version is that of the editor who has placed Gaza's in the margin with frequent corrections. The conjectures of Scaliger Constantine and Salmasius are also incorporated. it has collected into one body the opinions of the old writers on the subject of the PLANTS. It contains some wood-cuts of the rarer species which are much better uncoloured than coloured." Dibdin II:498. The numerous woodcut plant illustrations were partly copied from other sources and partly made especially for this edition. Thus apart from being "one of the best and most thoughtfully prepared of all the editions of Theophrastos" Hunt our editor has also made original contributions that are of great importance. "It is interesting not only because of the brilliance of the editing but curiously enough to the American botanist as well for involving in the discussion certain species from Virginia other parts of the New World and Asia. The illustrations of these plants have been largely overlooked in botanical history because of their incidental presence in a work which might not be expected to contain anything of the sort. Some were merely borrowed from l'Ecluse or de Lobel but others seem original in this work" H.H. Bartlett: Fifty-five Rare Books - quoted by Hunt.At the height of the Renaissance with the expansion of the known world and the spreading of the book due to the invention of the printing press many new publications on plants appeared. Most of these publications however were primarily concerned with the medicinal qualities of individual plants and only few authors or editors took an interest in the general nature of the plants and how they could systematically be classified. One of the few exceptions was Bodaeus von Stapel. With his seminal 1644 edition of "Historia Plantarum" he focused on the overarching classification system of plants and took Theophrastus' work a step further adding essential commentaries and illustrations - illustrations that were to be copied for centuries after. These illustrations remain the standard illustrations of Theophrastus' foundational work. This edition of Theophrastus' "Historia Plantarum" became the standard edition of that earliest work on systematic botany and the edition that all serious scientific botanists of the 17th and 18th centuries will have studied. "Linnaeus in the practice of his favourite art of systematizing classified not only plants but the writers about them. The writers he distinguishes primarily as Botanists and Plant Lovers recognizing as Botanists only such as treat of plants from some philosophic or scientific point of view. Choosing his illustrations from annals of remote antiquity he names among the earliest of the Greeks who wrote of plants Hippocrates; but because he wrote of plants only in the interests of medicine Linnaeus styles him Father of Medicine. Similarly Aristotle. is down in the Linnaean list of ancient celebrities as Prince of Philosophers. To Theophrastus however he accords the title Father of Botany. From this opinion far from having been newly promulgated in Linnaeus's time there has been no dissenting voice. On the contrary Albert Haller one of the most learned men in Europe in his day and a botanist of such renown that Linnaeus held him in reverence and also in some fear denominates Theophrastus "the first of real botanists in point of time." Kurt Sprengel in the nineteenth century having rehearsed the names of a long line of ancient authors who had written more or less concerning plants says: "But the most illustrious of them all and the true father of botany was Theophrastus Eresius…." Greene Landmarks of Botanical History I:128.It is no wonder that Linnaeus should find in Theophrastus the Father of his own field - The "Historia Plantarum" was not only the earliest work on systematic botany it also contained Theophrastus' description of the formation of the plant seed the earliest account known and the best that was made for 2000 years.Hunt: 240; Pritzel: 9197; BM: V:2091; Dibdin: II:498. </em> hardcover
1548642CKI1RIA1QFlorence 1548. 4to. Lorenzo Torrentino Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment straight sewn on 3 wittawed thongs laced through the joints manuscript title down the spine with 4 fragments of a Latin manuscript in an upright humanistic hand on vellum used as spine lining. With 2 large woodcut historiated initials and a vine leaf ornament by Granjon Vervliet 178: 1st recorded in this year. Set in roman types with whole paragraphs in Greek 2 sizes and the dedication and some end matter in italic. 197 3 pp. First edition of one of the earliest printed books about colour translated from the Greek into Latin and with commentary by the Neapolitan physician and philosopher Simone Porzio 1497-1554. Usually attributed to Aristotle it is now thought to be the work of the peripatetic scholar and pupil of Aristotle Theophrastus.''As the author states at the end of the treatise it is intended rather to supply data for a detailed examination into the scientific theory of colour than to expound a complete thesis. He has realized that the development of colour in animals and plants depends to some extent on heat and he seems to suggest that heat and moisture are the controlling factors. It is of more value as a collection of observed facts than for any theory of the origin and development of colour in physical life'' Aristotle Minor Works Cambridge and London Loeb Classical Library 1936 p. 3.With some spotting on the title-page and some marginal tears not approaching the text but otherwise in very good condition and with large margins. Binding with the sewing supports broken a tear in the backstrip and some small stains. An important treatise on colour and one of the earliest.l Adams P1958; Caillet 8881; EDIT16 CNCE 16133; Hoffman I 289 "rare and very important"; Kemp The science of art p. 264; Schwab Bibliographie d'Aristotle 3503; USTC 803281. hardcover
1562676901562. Franckfurt am Mayn bey Weygand Han und Georg Raben 1562. 4º. 3 Teile in 1 Band: Teil: 12 115 Bl.; Teil: 12 129 1 Bl.; Mühlhausen im oberen Elsaß durch Peter Schmid 1562. 4º. 32 Bl. Schweinsledereinband d.Zt. mit Schliessen. Paracelsus Theophrastus Philippus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim. Erster - dritter Theil der grossen Wundartzney deß weitberhümpten bewerten vnd erfahrnen Theophrasti Paracelsi von Hohenheim der Leib vnd Wundartzney Doctoris. & Angebunden: Baderbüchlin. Sechs köstliche Tractat armen und reychen nutzlich und notwendig von wasserbädern . Mit fleyß und müe Doctor Adams von Bodenstein zu einem guten neuwen Jar publicirt. Die "Grosse Wundartzney" gehört zu den einflussreichsten chirurgischen Schriften der frühen Neuzeit und markiert einen Wendepunkt in der praktischen Wundbehandlung in der Ablehnung scholastischer Autoritäten und in der Hinwendung zu einer erfahrungsbasierten am Krankenbett gewonnenen Chirurgie. Der Frankfurter Druck von 1562 bietet in drei Teilen Paracelsus' Lehre von Wunden Schussverletzungen Brandwunden Knochenbrüchen Geschwülsten und anderen chirurgischen Erkrankungen dazu die ausführliche Abhandlung zur "Frantzosischen Kranckheit" Syphilis. Bei der vorliegenden Ausgabe handelt es sich um einen Nachdruck der zweibändigen "Grossen Wundartzney" nach der Augsburger Ausgabe von 1537. Den dritten Teil bildet die Schrift "Von der frantzosischen Kranckheit"; hierfür nutzten Weygand Han und Georg Raben den Nachdruck von 1553 als Vorlage und übernahmen Dessen Druckbogen aus dem Nachlass des Frankfurter Druckers Heinrich Gulfferich für einen Teil der Auflage sogar unverändert. Das angebundene "Baderbüchlin" in der Bearbeitung durch Adam von Bodenstein ist eine eigenständige sehr seltene Publikation über Wasser und Mineralbäder die Paracelsus' balneologische Vorstellungen popularisiert. In sechs "köstlichen Traktaten" richtet sich die Schrift ausdrücklich an "arme und reiche" um den Nutzen der Bäder für Prävention und Therapie verschiedenster Leiden darzulegen. Der Druck bei Peter Schmid in Mühlhausen im oberen Elsass ebenfalls 1562 steht in enger zeitlicher und inhaltlicher Nachbarschaft zur Wundartzney und ergänzt diese ideal um den Bereich der Badetherapie. Die Kombination von vollständiger Frankfurter Wundartzney alle drei Teile und dem zeitgleichen Mühlhauser Baderbüchlin in einem prachtvollen zeitgenössischen Schweinsledereinband mit Schnallen ist äußerst selten. VD16 P 458 Wundartzney; VD16 P 413 Baderbüchlin. Sudhoff Bibliographia Paracelsica Nr. 45 Baderbüchlin und Nr.49-51 Wundtarzney. Ferguson Bibliographia Paracelsica. Schubert Paracelsus Library Drexel Katalog Nr. 25. Fürberth Bäder-Bibliographie Nr. 37. unknown
352610<p>Baderbüchlin. Sechs köstliche Tractat armen und reychen nutzlich und notwendig von wasserbädern . Mit fleyß und müe Doctor Adams von Bodenstein zu einem guten neuwen jar publicirt. 4to 202 x 153 mm. 32 ff. A-H4 last blank title in red and black 2 fine woodcuts bathing scenes the larger one repeated printer's device. Modern red morocco 2 gilt fillets and fleurons on boards spine on raised bands decorated with gilt fleurons edges gilt. Small dampstain on the title page. Mülhausen Peter Schmid 1562.</p><p>The eminently rare first edition of one of the earliest works on hydrotherapy. The treatise is about water-baths thermal springs hot baths etc. and their uses — for rich and poor — describing how they are useful and necessary for health. Paracelsus discusses the therapeutic effects of bathing in water for various illnesses and includes treatments for gout gynaecological disorders paralysis leprosy etc. Some of the most famous health resorts and healing springs are described in: Baden in Aargau Pfäffers Leukerbad Bad Gastein Teplitz Plombières Göppingen and others. The work was published by Adam Bodenstein 1528-1577 who Studied medicine in Basel Freiburg im Breisgau Leipzig and Mainz. In 1553 he entered the service of Otto Heinrich Elector Palatine who urged him to study the Paracelsus manuscripts kept in Neuburg an der Donau. He edited more than forty works and to facilitate understanding of Paracelsus' unusual language wrote an Onomasticon.</p><p>Fine copy with ample margins one of the earliest book printed at Mulhouse.</p><p>Provenance: Dr Maurice Villaret 1877-1946 French neurologist known for his work on the localisation of cerebral vascular lesions; with his bookplate "Morte/ Vita engraved on wood.</p><p>References: Fürberth Bäder-Bibliographie Nr. 37. Sudhoff 45 ; Graesse V 127 ; VD16 P-413</p> Mülhausen, Peter Schmid, 1562.
1589676841589. Conraf Waldkirch 1589-1599 4° mit 10 sich wiederholenden Portraits und Textholuschnitte im letzten Teil Astrologica. 5 geprägte Schweinsledereinbände d.Zt.; vereinzelt Wurmlöcher ohne Textverlust sehr geines Exemplar. Erster bis Zehender Theil der Bücher und Schrifften. Jetzt auffs new auß den Originalien und Theophrasti eigner Handschrifft an tag geben: durch Joh. Huserum. 10 Teile und die Appendices zu Teilen V und X letzterer in 2 Teilen in 5 Bänden. Mit 12 ganzseitigen wiederholten Porträtholzschnitten des Autors mehrfach wiederholten Wappenholzschnitten Druckermarken und 62 Textholzschnitten im Appendix zu Teil X. Titel in Rot und Schwarz. Reich blindgeprägtes Schweinsleder der Zeit Basel Conrad Waldkirch 1589-1591. Seltene erste deutsche Gesamtausgabe der Werke des Theophrast Bombast von Hohenheim genannt Paracelsus 1493-1541 die sog. "Huser'sche Quartausgabe" in der zahlreiche Schriften zum ersten Mal im Druck erschienen und deren Text für alle späteren Ausgaben maßgeblich wurde. Sie kam mit Unterstützung des Kurfürsten und Kölner Erzbischofs Ernst Prinz von Bayern zustande und wurde von dem Paracelsisten Johann Huser 1545-1600 Arzt aus Waldkirch im Breisgau und kurfürstlich-kölnischem Rat herausgegeben vgl. Hirsch-Hübotter III 350. "Wenn man ohne Voreingenommenheit diese Huser'schen Darlegungen über die bei der Sammelausgabe angewendeten Grundsätze und Massnahmen überblickt so kann man ihm die Anerkennung nicht versagen dass er mit Umsichte und Gründlichkeit an die Lösung seiner Aufgabe gegangen ist" Sudhoff S. 374. Die Ausgabe gliedert sich in medizinische Werke Teile I-VI dann die "Bücher in welchen fürnemlich die Kräfft Tugenden und Eigenschafften Natürlicher dingen auch derselben Bereitdungen betreffend die Artzeney beschriben werden neben eingemischten sachen zur Alchemey dienstlich" Teil VII. Es folgen die philosophischen Schriften Teile VIII-X. Der 5. Teil enthält ein Sudhoff unbekannt gebliebenes Sonderblatt eine "Schedula" zu S. 290 sowie einen 228 Seiten und 21 umfassenden Appendix. Mit der häufig fehlenden Foliotafel im 10. Teil zu S. 68 ferner dem Appendix und einem zweiten Anhang mit dem "Fasciculus Prognosticationum Astrologicarum". Zum Appendix gehören auch die Textfiguren und Holzschnitte davon 30 zur "Auslegung der Magisten Figuren im Carthäuser Kloster zu Nürnberg" und 32 "Figurae Magicae Theophrasti" zur "Prognostication auf XXIIII Jahr zukünfftig". Das vorliegende Exemplar enthält alle erschienenen Teile bis auf den Appendix zu Teil VIII jedoch die Appendices zu Teilen V und vor allem X mit dem genannten "Fasciculus prognosticationum astrologicarum". Kollation: Band I Teil I: 10 Bl. 426 S. 1 Bl.; Teil II: 342 S. 1 w. 28 Bl.; Teil III: 4 Bl. 420 S. 51 Bl.; Teil IV: 417 S. 53 Bl.; Teil V: 4 Bl. 332 S. 48 Bl.; 228 S. 21 Bl.; Teil VI: 4 Bl. 440 S. 12 Bl.; Teil VII: 6 Bl. 439 S. 4 Bl.; Teil VIII: 6 Bl. 363 S. 4 Bl. ohne S. 365-428 Appendix zu VIII; Teil IX: 4 Bl. 459 S. 4 Bl.; Teil X: 4 Bl. 491 S.; 275 S. 4 Bl. letztes weiß 106 S. 1 Bl. VD16 P 365 367 369 371 373 375-379. Mook 154-163. Sudhoff 216-225 220a und 225a. Hirsch-Hübotter IV 499. Garrison-Morton 57 Anm. Durling 3514 unvollständig. - Nicht bei Osler Wellcome Waller. Not in Neville Historical Library; not in Maggs 520 and Ferguson; Durling 3514 imperfect; Heirs of Hippocrates only later complete editions not in Osler Wellcome Waller. unknown
