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PARACELSUS. Chirurgische Bücher und Schrifften. [16], 680, [39] pages, including title in red and black within woodcut historiated border, and woodcut portrait on next leaf; lacks the 115-page alchemical and pharmaceutical appendix. Folio, 328x207 mm, contemporary vellum boards with remnants of thong ties, joints reinforced at top. Early ownership inscription of Franciscus Joel on title; bookplate of Anton Roth. Strassburg: Lazarus Zetzner, 1605
first complete edition of the surgical writings of Paracelsus, from the first Strassburg folio edition of his collected works in German. The medical and philosophical works were published in 2 volumes in 1603. Sudhoff (page 694) describes this edition as the most complete, and indispensable for the surgical volume. Krivatsy 8562; Sudhoff 267.
