HARGRAVE, John. The Life and Soul of Paracelsus.

(London): Gollancz, 1951.  First edition. Hardback.  22cm by 14.3cm.  253 pages.  A biographical and interpretative study of the sixteenth-century physician, alchemist, and reformer Theophrastus von Hohenheim (Paracelsus). Hargrave presents Paracelsus as a visionary precursor of modern scientific and spiritual thought, tracing his life, travels, and conflicts with orthodox medicine and theology. Explores his ideas on nature, healing, and the unity of body and soul, with discussion of his influence on later mystics, Romantics, and holistic thinkers.  A very good copy, Atlantis Bookshop label to front pastedown, in a very good dustwrapper.  Dustwrapper a little grubby on rear panel.