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Cerebri Anatome, Willis, London, 1664

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Cerebri Anatome, Willis, London, 1664
WILLIS, THOMAE. Cerebri Anatome: Cui Accessit Nervorum Descriptio et Usus. Studio Thomae Willis, Ex Aede Christi Oxon. M. D. & in ista Celeberirima Academia Naturalis Philosophiae Professoris Sidleiani. London: Tho. Roycroft, Impensis Jo. Marty & Ja. Allestry. 16mo (6 1/4 x 4 in.). Full mottled calf, gilt blocked, four raised bands and gilt to spine. 240 pages; 15 engraved plates are present. Fair-Good. Edgewear, surface cracking and losses to leather at head and foot of spine, corners bumped and worn. Front free endpaper is missing. foxing and toning. Faded inking added to title page, and a blue inked name is written across the title page, front and verso, and also at the top of the first section. What appears to be an earlier inscription, on the flyleaf, for "Guiolm. Davis" dated 1732. There are a number of pages with bent corners. Several of the page numbers on the plates have been hand-corrected in browned ink to correspond to their placement in the book, or simply crossed out. For example, the plate between pp. 158-159 (Fig. I) is numbered p. 302, and that has been crossed out and hand-numbered 158. Several of the plates have folded edges and short tears at folds; two plates, between pp. 228-229 and pp. 222-223, have two large tears each, but still fold out.