Paracelsus
Rare Books, Maps and Manuscripts
Auction: 11 January 2012 at 11:00 GMT
£1,000
Description
Operum medico-chimicorum sive paradoxorum. Frankfurt: Collegio Musarum Palthenianarum, 1603-05. Volumes 1-9 [of 11] in 3, 4to, edited by Zacharias Palthenius, contemporary vellum, woodcut portrait illustration of Paracelsus repeated in several volumes, 1 folding table, browned and dampstained, preliminary leaves of volume 5 frayed and title repaired with loss of a few letters, library stamp to some titles, vellum slightly soiled, one torn at yapp edge, lacks ties
Footnote
Note: Wellcome Library Record No: 14308322