Paracelsvs of the supreme mysteries of nature. : Of the spirits of the planets. of occult philosophy. The magical, sympathetical, and antipathetical cure of wounds and diseases. The mysteries of the twelve signs of the zodiack.
Robert Turner's 1656 English translation of works attributed to Paracelsus on planetary spirits, occult philosophy, wound cures and the zodiac, printed in London by J. C. for the booksellers N. Brook and J. Harison for physicians and students of magic. The plates are small woodcut talismans shown as obverse-and-reverse pairs: double-ruled circles enclosing planetary characters, crosses, arrows and invented letterforms, with names lettered around the rim, useful as seal motifs, roundel borders and cryptic alphabets.
