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WILLIS, Thomas (1621-1675). Cerebri anatome: cui accessit nervorum descriptio et usus. London: Ja. Flesher for Jo. Martyn and Ja. Allestry, 1664.
4o (202 x 150 mm). Engraved portrait of author tipped in on verso of imprimatur. 15 engraved plates (11 folding), unsigned, but drawn by Sir Christopher Wren (1632-1723) and Richard Lower (1631-1691), and probably engraved by David Loggan (1635-1692) (some pale offsetting). (Title trimmed at head excised ownership inscription, some occasional pale spotting.) Contemporary calf (rebacked). Provenance: Jonathan Thompson? (signature dated 1749 on title); Hugh Macdonald Sinclair (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION. "The most complete and accurate account of the nervous system which had hitherto appeared, and the work that coined the term "neurology" (Garrison-Morton). Willis, Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosphy at Oxford University, was dissatisfied with existing accounts of the brain, and so conducted brain dissections himself, with the aid of his students Christopher Wren, Richard Lower and Thomas Millington (an early recorded instance of collaborative scientific research). Garrison-Morton 1378; Grolier Medicine 32A; Heirs of Hippocrates 538; NLM/Krivatsy 13009; Norman 2243; Waller 10315; Wing W-2824.
4o (202 x 150 mm). Engraved portrait of author tipped in on verso of imprimatur. 15 engraved plates (11 folding), unsigned, but drawn by Sir Christopher Wren (1632-1723) and Richard Lower (1631-1691), and probably engraved by David Loggan (1635-1692) (some pale offsetting). (Title trimmed at head excised ownership inscription, some occasional pale spotting.) Contemporary calf (rebacked). Provenance: Jonathan Thompson? (signature dated 1749 on title); Hugh Macdonald Sinclair (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION. "The most complete and accurate account of the nervous system which had hitherto appeared, and the work that coined the term "neurology" (Garrison-Morton). Willis, Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosphy at Oxford University, was dissatisfied with existing accounts of the brain, and so conducted brain dissections himself, with the aid of his students Christopher Wren, Richard Lower and Thomas Millington (an early recorded instance of collaborative scientific research). Garrison-Morton 1378; Grolier Medicine 32A; Heirs of Hippocrates 538; NLM/Krivatsy 13009; Norman 2243; Waller 10315; Wing W-2824.