Erster [-Zehender] Theil der Bücher und Schrifften, des edlen, hochgelehrten und bewehrten Philosophi unnd Medici, Philippi Theophrasti Bombast von Hohenheim, Paracelsi genannt : jetzt auffs new auss den Originalien, und Theophrasti eigner Handschrifft, souiel derselben zubekommen gewesen, auffs trewlichst vnd fleissigst an tag geben / durch Iohannem Huserum Brisgoium.

[Basel] : Gedruckt zu Basel, durch Conrad Waldkirch, Anno 1589-1591.

10 volumes : illustrations, portrait (woodcuts) ; 23 cm (4to)

Sudhoff 216-225a

Text in German and Latin

Titlepages printed in red and black

Includes indexes to each volume

Vols. 1-5: 1589; v. 6-8: 1590; v. 9: 1591; v. 10: 1590

Noted by Sudhoff: v. 2, p. [343-4] blank; v. 5 with additional unpaginated leaf pasted in (fol. 5O2 bis, to follow p. 289); v. 5 appendix with errata leaf after p. 228; v. 9, t.p. dated 1591 (variant issue dated 1590); v. 10 with folding table at p. 68

Not noted by Sudhoff: v. 3 pagination omits p. [54-5]; v. 5, p. 177-8 printed on one side of a folding leaf (verso blank)

Vol. 3 includes a letter to Erasmus and his reply; v. 5 includes a commentary on Hippocrates' Aphorisms.

Copy 1 Vol. 1-2 Supplier/Donor: Quaritch Note: Imperfect: wanting ff. B3-4 (p. [xiii-xvi], i.e. end of Huser's address to the reader and two verse eulogies). First few leaves of text with brief early marginal notes (cropped). Binding: old vellum, recent endpapers. Bound uniform with v. 7-9 & 10, probably recently and apparently to match earlier vellum bindings on v. 3-4 & 5-6

Copy 1 Vol. 3-4 Note: Binding: early vellum, lettered in gilt on upper cover "H C V S" and "1 6 2 0", remains of green cotton ties, recent endpapers

Copy 1 Vol. 5-6 Note: Binding: as v. 3-4. Vol. 5 folding table (p. 177-8) cut across fold with minor loss of text

Copy 1 Vol. 7-9 Note: Binding: as v. 1-2. Cropping occasionally affects running titles. Vol. 7 with frequent highlighting in early ink, and t.p. ownership inscription "Sum ex libris Caspari Gölzii". Vol. 8 with occasional and brief early marginal notes, and t.p. ownership inscriptions "J P Burggrave / 1695" (i.e. Johann Philipp Burggrave the elder, 1673-1746); "John Samuel B[illegible]" (surname struck through); and "Dono dedit Dn. Com. Schlosser 169[5?]" (cropped). Inscription at foot of page (heavily inked over) beginning "Mr Phillips ... ". Vol. 8 index bound before p. 365. Vol. 9 with occasional early marginal notes

Copy 1 Vol. 10 Note: Binding: as v. 1-2. T.p. inscribed "ad Conv. D. Joseph. Ord. Serv. [two words illegible] 1799"