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Paracelsus; Johannem Huserum Brisgoium : Erster Theil Der Buecher und Schrifften des Edlen / Hochgelehrten un Bewehrten Philosophi anno Medici. Philippi Theophrasti Bombast von Hohenheim / Paracelsi genannt: Jetzt auffs nem auss den Originalten, und Theophrasti cigner Handschifft / Souiel Derselben zubefommen gewesen / auffs trewlichst und fleissigst an tag geben: Durch Johannem Huserum Brisgoium Chursuerstlichen Coelnischen Rhat unnd Medicum. In diesem Theil warden begriffen die Buecher welche von Disprung und hergoomen aller Brancthessen banddnin Genere: Deren Catalogus nach det Draesation an den Leser zufinden

Conrad Waldkirch, Basel, c. 1589.

Rebacked skillfully saving late 18th-century marble boards, recent ¼ calf, spine in six compartments of raised bands and blind-tooled floral motifs, gilt text on two, three and six. , Lacks portrait; margins extended to first 13 leaves; tears to lower margin with old repairs on final 54 leaves, starting from marginal repairs in the earlier leaves and culminating to loss of 1/3 of text by the final leaf; browning and foxing throughout; a poor copy., Small thick 4to., P. Book One. title, blank, “Dem Hochweierdigste� (5), “huserus� (4), “ermstum� (2), to the reader (3), contents (2), 1-426; Book 2. “epitaphium�, frontis, title, 4-342, (2), index (54); Book 3. title, “Philippus Theophrastus Bombast Hohenheimensis�, “Et rapti furiis�, contents (2), to the reader, 1-53, 56-420, index (106), (2)., With in-text woodblock shields. Titles in red and black inks., Volume : Three books in one.

Pagination jumps from p. 53 to 56 in the third book with no loss to text or variation in foliation.
This is a collection of three books written by the scientist and philosopher Paracelsus (or Phillippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, 1493-1541), and edited by Johann Huser. In Germany, Paracelsus is known as the father of toxicology, having coined the German equivalent of the phrase, “The dose makes the poison.� He delved much into astrology and alchemy, and gave the name “zink� to the element known today as “zinc�. He also was the first academic to suggest the existence of an “unconscious� mind. He often disagreed with his contemporaries and was eventually banished from Basel, where he had served as the university’s chair of medicine. The Cambridge History of Science states: “The reaction to Paracelsus was not one of immediate appreciation…. During the 1560s and 1570s, however, the German followers … began to publish his works. This publishing effort reached a climax in the 1590s with the monumental collection of Paracelsus’s works edited by Johann Huser, entitled ‘Bücher und Schrifften’ (Books and Writings)� (506).
, Porter, Roy, Katharine Park, and Lorraine Daston. The Cambridge History of Science: Early Modern Science. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2006. 506.

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