THE PARACELSUS COLLECTION OF THE ST. LOUIS MEDICAL SOCIETY (ROBERT E. SCHLUETER COLLECTION)
Book Details + Condition: Johns Hopkins University. Institute of the History of Medicine (Baltimore, MD). First Edition, 1941. Softcover. Small quarto. Paginated 545-579. Introductory essay by Henry E. Sigerist. 11 b&w plates. All except one are full-page photographs, mostly of title-pages of rare editions etc. An offprint from the Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Vol. 9, No. 5, 1941. An introduction to and catalogue of the Robert E. Schlueter Paracelsus Collection, published to coincide with the 400th anniversary of the death of Paracelsus. It was considered the best such collection at the time, and details some 510 works by and relating to Paracelus divided into 5 sections. There is also an interesting appendix listing works in the collection that are "not included in Karl Sudhoff's Bibliographia Paracelsus." An overall firm and clean copy, with light wear to covers; interior is clean and free of markings.
