Binding: 1/4 Cloth
Book Condition: Fine
Edition: Reprint Edition
Size: 4to; [viii], 119, [1] pages
Publisher: USV Pharmaceutical Corp, 1971, Tuckahoe, NY

[Book #19310]

Reprint of the 1681 edition in Fine condition, blue boards with inset cameo bust of Thomas on the front cover, letterpress on rag paper. From the collection of Betty Anderson, legendary art director of publisher Knopf in the late 20th century. Includes signed letter of the designer of this very book, Bert Clarke/A. Colish to advertise the work to Ms. Anderson at Knopf. An attractive association copy ;

Thomas Willis (1621-1675) , founding member of the Royal Society, wrote his famous anatomy of the brain and nerves initially in Latin in Cerebri Anatome: cui accessit nervorum descriptio et usus in 1664. This text was reset from the English edition, translated by S. Pordage in 1681 ; B & W Illustrations