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by or Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim Paracelsus

$6,500 · Offered by Martayan Lan

First edition

8vo. 112 ff, pages 2 and 110-112 are blank. Bound in modern paneled calf, with gilt-stamped fleurons on front and back covers, raised bands. Generally good. The first edition of this plague treatise by Paracelsus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, 1493-1541 , the “Luther of Medicine” and one of the key figures in the history of medicine. Written originally in Nördlingen in 1529-1530, it remained unpublished during

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