Archidoxorum Aureoli Ph. De secretis naturae mysteriis libri decem, quorum tenorem versa pagella dabit.

8vo: [16]-460-[19] pp. (title and margins soiled, damp stains in first quires).

Contemp. brown sheep (sl. rubbed), gilt orn. spine with 4 raised bands (joints sl. rubbed, tiny wormhole on lower spine), sp. edges.

Latin translation by the Flemish physician and alchemist Gérard Dorn (b. Mechelen, ca. 1530), one of the most prominent vulgarizers of works by Paracelsus (1493/94-1541), Swiss physician, alchemist, lay theologian, and philosopher of the German Renaissance. One of his rather rare works devoted to medical alchemy.
Ref. Adams P-263. - Cp. Durling 3510. - VD16 P-398. - Wellcome I:4774. Not in Caillet.
Bound with: Id. - Aureoli Philippi Theophrasti Paracelsi philosophorum atque medicorum excellentissimi, De summis naturae mysteriis libri tres, lectu perquam utiles atque iucundi. Ibid., id. [12]-174-[1] pp. (8 and a1 missing, some browning, some contemp. ms. annotations). Portrait of Paracelsus at the end. Ref. VD16 P-565. - Cp. Durling 3512.
Joined: Id. - Aureoli Theophrasti Paracelsi eremitae, philosophi summi operum Latine redditorum tomus II. Basel, P. Perna, 1575. 2 parts in 1 vol., 8vo: [16]-707 [= 797]-[1 bl.], 143 pp. (title and prelim. pp. def. and partly underlaid, tears repaired with sellotape, last p. underlaid, dampstaining). Old blindruled and blindst. vellum (recasing), spine with 3 raised bands, mod. endpapers. Part two only of this very rare work of the Swiss physician. Ill. with a woodcut portrait of the author. Ref. VD16 P-382. - Not in Adams, STC German (BL). Prov. Ms. entry on title. (2 vol.)