WILLIS, THOMAS. 1621-1675.


Cerebri anatome: cui accessit nervorum descriptio et usus. London: Thomas Roycroft, for J. Martyn & Ja. Allestry, 1664. 8vo (138 x 93 mm). 15 folding plates. Contemporary vellum, endpapers renewed. With unnumbered leaf (to accompany unnumbered plate between pages 56 and 57), lacking license leaf A1, plates 5, 9, and 11 with clean tears, plate 10 neatly repaired. Provenance: Clendening Medical Library, University of Kansas (small ink stamp). FIRST OCTAVO EDITION, with the engravings printed from the original plates for the quarto edition of the same year. "The most complete and accurate account of the nervous system which had hitherto appeared, and the work that coined the term 'neurology'" (Garrison-Morton). ESTC (RLIN 2000) R24571; See Garrison-Morton 1378 (quarto edition); Krivatsy 13010; Russell 868; Wing W-2823.