Paracelsus - (OCCULT & ALCHEMY) Archidoxa (bound with)//: - 1570

Paracelsus

Archidoxa D. Philippi Theoprasti Paracelsi

Munich - 1570 -
Adam Berg

(130) c.
Sign. +4 *4 A-Z4 a-g4

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Several small treatises on the Archidoxa belong.

Munich - 1570 -
Adam Berg

(36) c.
Sign. A-I4 (I4 white)

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Thirteen books of this learned and
widely famous

Basel - 1571 -
Peter Perna

(48) c.
Sign. A-M4

In 40 - 21 x 15 cm.

Without lamination.
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The curative talismanic arts involving metals, planets, and zodiac signs.

Stunning collection of 3 complete texts by Paracelso, including the very rare second edition of Archidoxa (the first edition, practically unknown, from the previous year in Krakow 1569), as well as the highly valuable supplement and another important Basel esoteric text from 1571.

The text is embellished with two very interesting and substantial manuscripts, containing distillations and preparations on the alchemical subject, most likely contemporary, by two different hands. The first is located at the beginning of the volume and comprises 12 full pages, while the second, consisting of nine full pages, is positioned at the end (see photo).

The Archidoxa is one of Paracelso's most read writings in the 16th century, probably the most
exclusively Paracelsian alchemy
THORNDIKE V, 625
SUDHOFF 118
MULLER 32
RITTER 1772
BRUNING 411
VD16 p. 35

Archidoxa is the work on which his reputation as the founder of chemistry is based, and it contains most of his work in the field of chemistry.
It is a collection of healing arts involving talismanic practices to obtain relief and healing with the 7 classical metals, the 7 planets, and the zodiac signs on the seals, along with mysterious signs for many illnesses and disorders.

Paracelso was the first to attempt a system of chemistry; his system dealt with all the chemical substances known to him and involved a classification of materials and operations.

Although the influence of medieval alchemy is clearly evident in Paracelso's chemical work, it is balanced by some genuine advances: he pursued a systematic chemical research that incorporated metallurgy and pharmacology, introduced new laboratory methods, and devised new ways to make therapeutic chemical preparations less harmful.
His chemical successes constitute the link between medieval alchemy and the powerful Paracelsian movement of the 1970s.
from the Cinquecento, which culminated in the rise of
iatrochimica between the late 16th and 17th centuries.
(NORMAN)

The present first edition of the Supplement to Archidoxa, very rare to find together, includes treatises on the use of magnets in medicine, on occult philosophy, on the proper administration of drugs, and on how to extract poisons from venomous animals.
BM/STC German 137 p.
SUDHOFF 128
WELCOME 4779a
NORMAN 1638

The third text, also in the first edition (Basel 1571), edited by Peter Perna, is another important treatise, containing numerous and valuable distillations and preparations.

Good, integral, and solid seventeenth-century binding in rigid parchment, with covers covered in green cardboard.
All five passing straps at the back are present and preserved, in good patina, with a decorated double frame plaque bearing the title and the gold-leafed author.

Good preservation of the interiors as well, with documents generally well preserved.
There are slight and consistent browning, mostly marginal, with minor humidity stains that are not bothersome, more pronounced on the sheets containing the two manuscripts.
However, texts and manuscripts are perfectly accessible.
Numerous contemporaneous marginal notes in the text, some slightly trimmed.
Three independent title pages, with a woodcut portrait of Paracelsus on the first frontispiece and on the verso of the second frontispiece; then, on *2v, the portrait of Paracelsus is repeated with decorative frames, while on *3r, the portrait of Joannes Albertus Wimpineus, the editor of the texts, appears.
Some woodcut diagrams in the Supplementum, besides ornaments.
Stain, without any obstacle to reading.
a S4.
Rare marginal galleries or border galleries.
Cuts sprinkled with lemon.
Contemporary guards preserved.

Most valuable and unfindable text, complete in every part.
Settled. Complete.