78/2737 [Occultism]. Sennert, D. Verhandeling der Toover-Sieckten. Geschil Van de Schôot-en Steeck-vrije. Geschil van de Wapen-salve. Paracelsi Vrye-konst. Dutch transl. D. Jonctys. Amst., J. van Hilten, 1646, (28),331,(9)p., engr. frontisp., contemp. overlapping vellum, sm. 8vo.

- Frontisp. sl. dam. in outer corners and inner margin; outer margin of frontisp. strengthened on verso. A very good copy.

= Krivatsy 10958; Poggendorff II, p.907-908. Cf. Scheepers I, 571 and Waller 1541 (first ed. 1638). Dutch translation of this popular work on sorcery & witchcraft, magic potions, the power of imagination on (imagined) diseases etc. Includes a treatise on invulnerability in war, a magic salve for the treatment of wounds and a refutation of Paracelsus. The frontispiece depicts a magician laying magic bones at a sick-bed. "He was the first to introduce chemistry as a subject of the medical curriculum and to make a serious effort to harmonise the doctrines of the Galenic medicine with what he considered true in Paracelsus' doctrines. Though of immense learning and fully alive to certain current errors (...) he still believed in transmutation, in the application of astrology to medicine and in the supernatural origin of disease." (Ferguson, Bibl. Chemica 2, p.372). Rare.