Lot 757
Willis, Thomas
Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographss | 10 May 2007
Description
Two discourses concerning the soul of brutes. London: Thomas Dring & John Leigh, 1683, 4to, 8 plates on 7 sheets, contemporary calf, two plates torn without loss, one plate margin shaved, some spotting and dust-soiling, a few leaves damp-stained in margin, rust-hole in Ff4, a few small ink stains, very worn, rebacked
Footnote
Note: Wing W2856, cf. Caillet 11443 [1672 Amsterdam edition]
Willis, one of the greatest figures in English medicine during the "scientific revolution", was a contemporary of Hooke and Newton, a Fellow of the Royal Society, and the author of some of the most important medical books of the period including The Practice of physick (1684).