Sale 2521 - Early Printed, Travel, Scientific & Medical Books, October 24, 2019

251 251 c   WILLIS, THOMAS. De anima brutorum. 8 engraved plates. [58], 16, 33-565 [i. e., 563], [11] (of [16]) pages, including initial imprimatur leaf, longitudinal title, and errata leaf; lacks the 5-page bookseller’s catalogue at the end. 4to, 202x153 mm, contemporary calf, rebacked, cover corners restored, endpapers renewed; contents crisp and clean. Oxford: at the Theater for Richard Davis, 1672 [2,000/3,000] first edition , issue with Oxford imprint, of Willis’s exposition of his anti-Cartesian theory of the soul. “Unlike Descartes, Willis believed that man has two souls, an immortal and uniquely human rational soul, and a mortal animal soul shared by all members of the animal kingdom. In his discussion of the sensitive soul Willis recapitulated the neurological concepts he had introduced in Cerebri anatome, particularly localization, and extended them to invertebrates”—Norman 2244. Garrison-Morton 1544; Hunter & Macalpine, pages 187-92. 252 c   WILLIS, THOMAS. Dr. Willis’s Practice of Physick; being, The Whole Works of that Renowned and Famous Physician. 36 engraved plates on 35 leaves (complete, though the general title calls for 40). [26], 152, [14], 158, [4], 96, [8], 143, [9], 218, 145-160, [8], 96, 105-234, [8]. Folio, 309x195 mm, contemporary calf, rebacked, cover corners restored, joints starting but binding still sound; general title soiled with minor restoration along edges, occasional soiling elsewhere, clean tear in 2 plates between pages 152 and 153 in The Anatomy of the Brain, verso of R1 and recto of S1 adhered in lower outer corner in first part of Pharmaceutice Rationalis, marginal dampstaining at end, outer corners of last 2 index leaves restored. London: T. Dring et al., 1684 [1,500/2,500] only complete collected edition in english , including translations of Cerebri anatome, Pathologiae cerebri, and De anima brutorum, “the first comprehensive books on the brain and nervous system to be published in Europe” (ODNB), as well as his clinical and pharmaceutical treatises. Krivatsy 13005-6; Wing W2854. 252