Aureoli Philippi Theophrasti Bombasts von Hohenheim Paracelsi ... Opera Bücher vnd Schrifften
Subtitle: so viel deren zur Hand gebracht, vnd vor wenig Jahren, mit vnd auss ihren glaubwürdigen eygener handgeschriebenen Originalien, collacioniert, vergleichen, verbessert
By: und durch Joannem Huserum Brisgoium in zehen vnderschiedliche Theil in Truck gegeben ; jetzt von Newem mit Fleiss vbersehen ...
Contributors: Huser, Johannes, active 1600
Publisher: In Velegung [sic] Lazari Zetzners seligen Erben
Published: 1616
Place of publication: Strassburg
Language: ger
Subjects: Occultism; Magic; Medicine; Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric; Early works to 1900; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Opera, Bücher vnd Schrifften; Opera, Bücher und Schrifften; Opera, Bücher und Schriften; Opera, Bücher vnnd Schrifften
Work titles: Selections
Notes: The 1st 2 vols. of Zetzner's 3-vol. ed. of Paracelsus, the 3rd being the Chirurgische Bücher of 1618. First issued in 1603 and based on Huser's 10-vol. ed. of 1589-1591. Cf. Hogart.

T.p. (v. 1) in red and black within ornamental woodcut border, incorporating a port. of Paracelsus at the top, publisher's device at bottom with motto "Scientia immvtabilis," the initials "C M / L + F" on bellows at lower right. Publisher's device on t.p., v. 2.

Section XXIII of v. 2, the Archidoxa, includes woodcut magical diagrams within circles, squares and triangles, and 2 pictorial series. The first consists of 30 woodcuts with representations of the Pope and the running title: Ausslegung der magischen Figuren im Carthäuser Kloster zu Nürnberg. The second consists of 31 woodcuts on various subjects with the running title: Figvrae magicae Theophr.

Includes index.

Hogart, C.  Alchemy, 121

Binding: old vellum over pasteboard. Spine title tooled in gold: Theophrast. Paracels. / Opera / tom. I (... II). Back strip of v. 1 detached.

Library's copy has 2 inscriptions in ink on t.p.'s of both vols.: T.R. Prater / F.T.S. 1905; and: G.O. Kiger 1840 (v. 2 has: Jan. 1840).