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Ward, Samuel,
1577-1640.

The wonders of the load-stone or, The load-stone newly reduc't into a divine and morall vse, by Samuel Ward. London, Printed by E.P. for P. Cole, 1640.

[20], 181 [i.e. 281], [1] p. front. 15.2 cm.

Provenance: "Malo nori quam foedari" Casley (bookplate crest)

Wheeler 111a.

Wedel, Georg Wolffgang, 1645-1721.

[Georgii Wolffgangi Wedelii] ... Theoremata medica, seu introductio ad medicinam, certis theorematibus, juxta ductum institutionum medicarum, absoluta, ad legendum & disputandum proposita. Jenae, Sumptibus Johannis Bielckii, Typis Samuelis Krebsii, 1677.

[24], 240 p. 4 fold. charts. 14 cm.

Bound with Helmont, Jean Baptiste van. Fundamenta medicinae recens jacta. Ulmae, 1680.

Wie das poudre de sympathie

vor allerhand Wunden und Seiten-Stechen zu machen. [n.p., n.d.]

[4] p. 16.7 cm.

Bound with Digby, Sir Kenelm. Eroffnung unterschiedlicher Heimlichkeiten der Natur. [n.p.] 1684.

Wilkins, John, bp. of Chester, 1614-1672.

Mercury, or The secret and swift messenger: shewing, how a man may with privacy and speed communicate his thoughts to a friend at any distance. [By] I.W. London, Printed by I. Norton, for I. Maynard and T. Wilkins, 1641.

[14], 180 [i.e. 172] p. illus. 16.1 cm.

Provenance: Durant moderata Robert Wilmot (bookplate crest); C.B.S. May 8. 1663 (inscription)

In Ronalds, Wheeler 117.

Wilkins, John, bp. of Chester, 1614-1672.

Mercury: or The secret and swift messenger. Shewing, how a man may with privacy and speed communicate his thoughts to a friend at any distance. The 2nd ed. By John Wilkins. London, Printed for R. Baldwin, 1694.

[15], 172 p. illus., port. 17.5 cm.

Provenance: Christopher Thompson, London (inscription)

Wheeler 117a.

Willis, Francis.

Synopsis physicae tam Aristotelicae, quam novae ad usum scholae accomodata, authore Fran. Willis. Londini, Apud J. Place, 1690.

[19], 108 p. illus. 16 cm.

Willis, Thomas, 1621-1675.

[Thomae Willis] Affectionum quae dicuntur hystericae et hypochondriacae pathologia spasmodica vindicata contra responsionem epistolarem Nathanaelis Highmori, M.D. cui accesserunt exercitationes medico-physicae de sanguinis accensione, et motu musculari. 41 p. 23.7 cm.

(In his Opera omnia. Amstelaedami, 1682.)

Willis, Thomas, 1621-1675.

Cerebri anatome: cui accessit nervorum descriptio et usus. Studio Thomae Willis. Londini, Typis J. Flesher, 1664.

[39], 106, [2], 107-456 p. 15 plates (11 fold.) 20 cm.

Willis, Thomas, 1621-1675.

[Thomae Willis] Cerebri anatome, nervorumque descriptio & usus.

123 p. 23.7 cm.

(In his Opera omnia. Amstelaedami, 1682.)

Willis, Thomas, 1621-1675.

[Thomae Willis] De anima brutorum quae hominis vitalis ac sensitiva est, exercitationes duae, quarum prior physiologica ejus naturam, partes, potentias, & affectiones tradit, altera pathologica morbos qui ipsam & sedem ejus primariam, cerebrum nempe & nervosum genus afficiunt, explicat; eorumque therapeias instituit. 210 p. 23.7 cm.

(In his Opera omnia. Amstelaedami, 1682.)

Willis, Thomas, 1621-1675.

[Thomae Willis] Diatribae duae prior agit de fermentatione, sive de motu intestino particularum in quovis corpore; altera de febribus, sive de motu' earundem in sanguine animalium: his accessit dissertatio epistolica de urinis.

182 p. 23.7 cm.

(In his Opera omnia. Amstelaedami, 1682.)

Willis, Thomas, 1621-1675.

[Thomae Willis] Opera omnia, nitidius quam unquam hactenus edita, plurimum emendata, indicibus rerum copiosissimis, ac distinctione characterum, exornata. Studio & opera Gerardi Blasii. Amstelaedami, apud H. Wetstenium, 1682. various pagings. 36 plates (15 fold.), port. 23.7 cm.

Provenance: The Society of Writers to the Sign (binding crest)

Willis, Thomas, 1621-1675.

Pathologiae cerebri, et nervosi generis specimen. In quo agitur de morbis convulsivis, et de scorbuto. Studio Thomae Willis. Amstelodami, Apud D. Elzevirum, 1668.

[12], 338, [19] p. port. 13.5 cm.

Willis, Thomas, 1621-1675.

[Thomae Willis] Pathologiae cerebri et nervosi generis specimen in quo agitur. De morbis convulsivis, & scorbuto.

146 p. 23.7 cm.

(In his Opera omnia. Amstelaedami, 1682.)

Willis, Thomas, 1621-1675.

[Thomae Willis] Pharmaceutice rationalis, sive diatriba de medicamentorum operationibus in humano corpore.

295 [i.e. 296] p. 23.7 cm.

(In his Opera omnia. Amstelaedami, 1682.)

Willughby, Francis, 1635-1672.

De historia piscium libri quatuor, jussu & sumptibus. Societatis regiae londinensis editi. In quibus non tantum de piscibus in genere agitur, sed & species omnes, tum ab aliis traditae, tum novae & nondum editae bene multae, naturae ductum servante methodo dispositae, accurate describuntur. Earumque effigies, quotquot haberi potuere, vel ad vivum delineatae, vel ad optima exemplaria impressa; artifici manu elegantissime in aes incisae, ad descriptiones illustrandas exhibentur. Cum appendice historias & observationes in supplementum operis collatas complectente. Totum opus recognovit, coaptavit, supplevit, librum etiam primum & secundum integros adjecit Johannes Raius e Societate regia. Oxonii, E Theatro Sheldoniano, 1686. [8], 343 p. 188 plates (incl. added t.p.) 38.5 cm.

Wotton, William, 1666-1727.

Reflections upon ancient and modern learning, by William Wotton. London, Printed by J. Leake, for P. Buck, 1694.

[32], 359 p. 19 cm.

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