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Geneva: Samuel de Tournes, 1676-1677. Good. Three titles in one volume. Quarto (23 cm). De anima brutorum, [32], 333, [11] pages, and 8 engraved plates (three of them folding); Pharmaceutice rationalis I: [16], 204, [4] pages, and 6 engraved plates (five of them folding); Pharmaceutices rationales pars seconda: [16], 266, [6] pages, and 8 plates (3 of them folding). Printer's device on title pages; engraved initials, headpieces and tail-pieces. In contemporary full calf, rather worn, with gilt-tooled decorations on spine quite faded. Leather title label reads "Opera WIllis Medic. Tom. II," indicating that the works were bound as part of a set (The Geneva editions of 1676 and 1677 were issued as separate titles that could be bound together to form a set). Small finger-chip at head of spine. Scattered foxing, noticeable in places. Bookplate of Dr. Alfred Jerome Brown (1878-1960) designed and engraved by Edwin Davis French. References: Garrison-Morton, 62; Kivatsky, 12998. First published… Read More

1674. Amstelodami, Apud Joannem à Someren, 1674, 12°, (48), 552, (20) pp., 8 fold. plates, parchment binding of the time; fine copy. De Anima Brutorum Quae Hominis Vitalis ac Sensitiva est, Exercitationes Duæ : Prior Physiologica Ejusdem Naturam, partes, Potentias & Affectiones tradit; Altera Pathologica Morbos qui ipsam, & sedem ejus Primariam, Nempe Cerebrum & Nervosum Genus afficiunt, explicat, eorumque Therapeias instituit ; cum Figuris Æneis / Studio Thomæ Willis ... A fine copy of the first continental issue, of a foundational work of neurology. In this treatise, Thomas Willis (1621-1675), who coined the term neurology, "recapitulated the neurological concepts he had introduced in Cerebri anatome, particularly localization, and extended them to invertebrates with some of the first detailed dissections made of the oyster, earthworm, and lobster. He attributed a wide range of diseases to neurological disturbances, among them headache, lethargy, melancholy, apoplexy, frenzy, and… Read More

Oxford: Richard Davis at the Sheldonian Theatre, 1672. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Two parts in one volume. 4to (197 x 149 mm). [56], 16, 33-565 (i.e. 563), 11 pp., 8 engraved plates of brain anatomy (5 folding); imprimatur leaf bound opposite title, longitudinal half-title g2 bound before the divisional title g1 for part one; page 563 misnumbered 565; general index at the end. Signatures: [pi]2 A4 b-f4 g2 2A-Z4 Aa-Zz4 Aaa-Yyy4 Zzz4(Zzz1 + "Zzzz Aaaa"4, Bbbb2). Bound in full contemporary speckled English calf, rebacked with new morocco spine label lettered in gilt, corners mended, endleaves renewed, dark sprinkled edges (rebacking rubbed, joints cracking). Text with light even browning, occasional spotting mostly to outer margins; instances of very faint blue vertical bands on some leaves, perhaps offsetting from bookmarks that are no longer in place; book block mostly split before p. 87; leaf Zzz4 with small patch of paper torn at fore-margin not affecting text.… Read More