Shelfmark
Ga.4.13
Author
Willis, Thomas, 1621 - 1675 author.
Title
De anima brutorum quæ hominis vitalis ac sensitiva est, exercitationes duæ. : Prior physiologica ejusdem naturam, partes, potentias & affectiones tradit. Altera pathologica morbos qui ipsam, & sedem ejus primariam, nempe cerebrum & nervosum genus afficiunt, explicat, eorumque therapeias instituit. / Studio Thomæ Willis M.D. Philosophiæ Natural. Profess. Sidleian. Oxon. nec non inclyti Med. Coll. Lond. & Societ. Reg. Socii.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Oxonii : e Theatro Sheldoniano. Impensis Ric. Davis, M. DC. LXXII. [1672]
Physical description
[56], 16, 33-565 [i.e. 563], [17] p., VIII leaves of plates (5 folded) : ill. ; 21 cm. (4to)
Language
Text in Latin, with some references and examples in Greek.
Note
Page 563 is misnumbered 565 (both on Zzz2r and "Aaaa Bbbb"1r). Page 536 is misnumbered 336.
Note
Includes index.
Note
When first printed, the work ended with gathering Zzz, but an ideal copy has two extra gatherings (signed "Zzzz Aaaa" and Bbbb) inserted after leaf Zzz1. To make the text continuous, the recto of Zzz3 (the text of which is repeated on "Zzzz Aaaa"1r) has been cancelled in most copies with a pasted-on errata leaf.
Note
"De anima brutorum quæ hominis vitalis ac sensitiva est, pars prima physiologica ejusdem naturam, partes, potentias & affectiones tradens" and "Pars secunda pathologica sive de morbis quæ ad animam corpoream, ejusque subjecta, scilicet cerebrum, & genus nervosum spectant" have divisional titles on g1r and Hh1r respectively; the pagination and signatures are continuous.
Note
Vertical half-title on the recto of leaf g2 reading "Willis De anima brutorum" (this bifolium may be folded the other way around, so that g2 precedes g1).
Note
Preliminary imprimatur leaf and four final advertisement leaves.
Note
Signatures: pi² A⁴ b-f⁴ g² ²A-Z⁴ Aa-Zz⁴ Aaa-Yyy⁴ Zzz⁴(Zzz1 + "Zzzz Aaaa"⁴, Bbbb²).
Citation/references note
Wing, W2825
Citation/references note
Madan, III, 2953
Citation/references note
ESTC, R151
Provenance
Engraved armorial bookplate of Edward Waddington, recording donation to Eton College in 1731.
Provenance
Engraved armorial bookplate of Eton College.
Binding
17th or 18th century dark brown calf; blind tooled double fillet border with small fleurons at each corner; gold tooled sprig roll on board edges; modern rebacking, with blind tooled double fillet decoration; reattached red morocco spine label with gold tooled letters and double fillet; four raised bands; red and green sprinkled edges.
Copy-specific note
Previous shelfmark: Dl.4.12.
Copy-specific note
Copy includes cancelled leaves (Zzz2-Zzz4), bound in after Zzzz Aaaa4 and Bbbb2.
Copy-specific note
g2 precedes g1 in this copy.
Subject
Medicine Early works to 1800.
Subject
Nervous system Diseases Early works to 1800.
Subject
Psychophysiology Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Davis, Richard, fl. 1646 - 1688 publisher.
Added entry--name
Waddington, Edward, 1670 or 71 - 1731 former owner.
Added entry--name
Sheldonian Theatre printer.
Added entry--place
England Oxford.
Language code
lat grc
Identifier
B46315