A New Method of Physick: or, a short view of Paracelsus and Galen?s practice; in 3. treatises. I. Opening the nature of physick and alchymy. II. Shewing what things are requisite to a physitian and alchymist. III. Containing an harmonical systeme of physick. Written in Latin by Simeon Partlicius? Translated into English by Nicholas Culpeper, Gent?

PARTLIZ, Simeon.

Published by London: Printed by Peter Cole in Leaden-Hall, and are to be sold?by S. Howes, J. Garfield, and R. Westbrook., 1654

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Small 8vo, 10 leaves, 548 pages [i.e. 348, pagination jumps from 191 to 392], engraved frontispiece portrait of Culpeper. Signatures jump from Q to U but pagination is continuous. With the longitudinal title (a cancel pasted to the stub of B1), title within typographical border (shaved off at lower edge), typographical head- and tailpieces. Contemporary sheep, ruled in blind, unlettered, red edges. Paper flaw at lower corner of X1 with loss of one word and several letters, margins cut close in several places, signature P a little browned, otherwise a lovely copy. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of Medici systematis harmonici (Frankfurt, 1625) by the German physician, mathematician, astronomer and hermeticist Simeon Partliz von Spitzberg, who was born in Triesch (now Trest in the Czech Republic) circa 1590, and probably died in Trencín (now in Slovakia) circa 1640. This was one of Culpeper?s last works (he died in January 1654) and probably posthumous as the ODNB notes that ?new works, mainly translations, continued to pour forth posthumously, mostly issued by Culpeper?s usual printer, Peter Cole, and with the blessing of his widow.? Concerned with medicine, hermeticism and astrology, Partliz?s book was very much in Culpeper?s traditional sphere of subjects. Wing P612. COPAC records 4 copies; most copies appear to have 9 preliminary leaves, so probably do not have the longitudinal title. Sudhoff, Bibliotheca Paracelsica, p. 578, noting that Partliz?s original did not mention Paracelsus on the title-page. This was the only English edition.

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• Title: A New Method of Physick: or, a short view of Paracelsus and Galen?s practice; in 3. treatises. I. Opening the nature of physick and alchymy. II. Shewing what things are requisite to a physitian and alchymist. III. Containing an harmonical systeme of physick. Written in Latin by Simeon Partlicius? Translated into English by Nicholas Culpeper, Gent?
• Publisher: London: Printed by Peter Cole in Leaden-Hall, and are to be sold?by S. Howes, J. Garfield, and R. Westbrook.
• Publication Date: 1654