Paracelsus, Theophrast. Opus chyrurgicum. Wound and Artzney Book. Within it, which masses understood all kinds of wreaths, remnants and defects, so as to wait daily for the human sex. Collects four books so only now to be added. Put in truck, through Adamum von Bodenstein. 14 Bl., CCCCCCCVI S., 1 Bl. Title in black and red. With woodcut portrait on the title, woodcut printer mark at the end and 35 text woodcuts, mostly by Jost Amman. 31 x 19.5 cm. Blind embossed pig leather band d. C. (worm-stitched, a little flecky and rubbed) with hs. Title. Frankfurt, Martin Lechler for Siegmund Feyerabend and Simon Hüter, 1566 (Imprint: 1565). VD 16 P 462. Sudhoff 81. – Title edition of the first illustrated edition from 1565, in which only the prefaces were extended from 9 to 14 sheets; the unillustrated first print was published in Strasbourg in 1564. Collection of surgical writings by the eminent Swiss physician, natural philosopher and alchemist Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim, called Paracelsus (1493-1541). – Weakly tanned or brownish, at the end with a stronger brown spot in the bow, the last leaf also with a small worm trace in the white margin. Resolutions more leimschattig. Overall well preserved. – Pre-bound: The same. Astronomia magna: Or the great philosopheria sagax of the big and small world. In it he teaches the glaring natural power, and inability, even all philosophical, and astronomical secret nuts of the big and small world. 16 nn., 165 nm., 1 nns. Bl., 1 w. Bl. Title in red and black. With 2 repeated woodcut printer brands. Frankfurt, Martin Lechler for Hieronymus Feyerabend, 1571. - VD 16 P 401. Sudhoff 131. Wellcome I, 4782. Zinner 2551. - First edition. "The main work of his whole life. Astronomia magna is as much like spiritual natural history, an adaptive philosophy that art can see through that finds under the surface the moving secret forces. This is the source of the great dream of the 16th and 17th centuries. The white magic" (Peuckert, Paracelsus, p. 365). - At first with a slightly stronger, then weaker brown spot in the bow. Title with somewhat deeper marginal tear and smaller worm track, recto old stamped and with old library shield (exemplary from the historical library of the Minoritenkloster in the Bavarian Maihingen). Otherwise only slightly tanned.