PARACELSUS.

Volumen Medicinae Paramirum...de Medica Industria, von des Artzt geschickligkeyt.

      Woodcut printer's device on verso of final leaf. 8 p.l., 141 (i.e. 139), [1] pp., 2 blank leaves. Small 8vo, antique panelled calf (title with two patches to blank portions of leaf), richly blindstamped by Aquarius. Strasbourg: C. Müller, 1575. First edition and very rare. "The Volumen Paramirum...is one of the first works of Paracelsus. It is also one of the most important ones in that it exhibits clearly both the medical and ethical thinking of this great philosopher-physician...[it] strikes us almost as a propaedeutic to his vast conceptions."­Kurt F. Leidecker in his "Preface" to Volumen Medicinae Paramirum of Theophrastus von Hohenheim called Paracelsus (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1949). Apart from the early repairs to blank portions of the title, a fine copy. A4 Sudhoff 163