Oct 27, 2015 - Sale 2395

Sale 2395 - Lot 384

Price Realized: $ 2,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 1,000
WILLIS, THOMAS. The Remaining Medical Works . . . The First Part. Engraved frontispiece portrait and 15 (of 16) plates; lacks plate to face page 94 in The Anatomy of the Brain. [12], 178; [4], 192; [8], 106, [30] pages, but last leaf of second part trimmed and bound at end of third part; lacks C1. 3 parts in one volume. Folio, 310x196 mm, old cloth, spine ends chipped, front cover detached; marginal soiling and dampstaining through most of volume, scattered marginalia, ink blots, and scrawls, portrait trimmed to plate mark and mounted, general title heavily soiled, wormtrail through blank outer margin of several leaves toward beginning, plates facing page 183 and 190 in The Description . . . of the Nerves torn and restored with image loss, index leaf (g)1 trimmed in upper and outer margins slightly affecting text. London: T. Dring et al., 1681

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first edition in english of writings including Willis's 1664 Cerebri anatome, "the most complete and accurate account of the nervous system which had hitherto appeared, and the work that coined the term 'neurology' "--Garrison-Morton 1378 (original edition). Krivatsy 13007; Wing W2855A.