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Hardcover, bound in genuine red top-grain cowhide, with all edges gilt and covers stamped in 22kt gold. Additional refinements include bound in silk ribbon marker and specially commissioned marbled end-papers by Richard J. Wolfe. A facsimile of the 1941 edition, “Four Treatises of Theophrastus von Hohenheim called Paracelsus”, edited, with a preface, by Henry E. Sigerist and collected from various sources and translated by various hands. Specially published for The Classics of Medicine Library, first limited edition thus. Personalized subscriber’s card laid in loose indicating that this is copy 921 along with small “Notes from the Editors” 23 page explanatory pamphlet. No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh, unmarked and unread copy. As new.