Paracelsus.- Fioravanti (Leonardo) Three exact pieces of...viz. his rationall secrets, and chirurgery, reviewed and revived. Together with a book of excellent experiments and secrets...Whereunto is annexed Paracelsus his one hundred and fourteen experiments, 4 parts in 1, general title within woodcut typographic border, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, general title with hole (with loss of 1 letter) and frayed at outer edge, with loss of border, some fraying / nibbling to outer margins from start to around sig. Q., final 2 ff. repairs with archival tape within text, without loss, occasional pencil scribbles within text to last few ff., water-stained, some damp-staining and spotting, lightly browned, 20th century brown half morocco over light blue boards, printed paper label to spine, [Wing F953 (with different imprint); Norman 797; Wellcome III, p.27; Partington ii, 29; Sudhoff Bibliographia Paracelsica 370; Heirs of Hippocrates 314.3], small 4to, Printed by G.D., 1652. sold not subject to return.

⁂ Our copy with a variant imprint to that of Wing F953. 'Fioravanti is a fascinating figure on the darkened fringes of the emerging medical world of the second half of the 16th century. Divided into four parts...the present work offers numerous case studies of disease and recipes for their cures in the tradition of harnessing, rather than opposing, nature pioneered by Paracelsus' (Heirs of Hippocrates).