Cerebri anatome: cui accessit nervorum descriptio et usus

by Thomas Willis

$38,500 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

London: Typis Ja. Flesher, Impensis Jo. Martyn & Ja. Allestry, 1664. First edition, a fine copy, of the “most complete and accurate account of the nervous system which had hitherto appeared, and the work that coined the term ‘neurology’” GM . “With this contribution, Willis was entitled to be a member of the notable group of seventeenth-century anatomists that included Valsalva, Malpighi, Leeuwenhoek,

• Binding: Hardcover

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