Search Results: Titles starting with F from Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts

8vo. Publisher's cloth; a very good copy.
First edition of Bentham's critical examination of Richard Whately's Elements of logic, which was printed in the same year. It is here that the principle of the quantification of the predicate, "an augmented syllogistic scheme of an almost symbolic form," was first explicitly stated. Bentham closely analyzes every aspect of Whately's work, defining logic and treating the classification of entities, propositions, deductions and forms of syllogisms. Of particular importance is Bentham's discussion of Whately's support of Aristotelian rules of division.
This work "has been heralded by some as the opening salvo in the overthrow of the Aristotelian syllogism's grip on logical inference. The move was a defiant political gesture. The young Bentham composed Outline in close concert with his famous uncle, the great utilitarian Jeremy Bentham, expanding and evolving Jeremy's attempts at a new logical system" (DSB).
Bentham (1800-1884) an English botanist, was the… Read More

8vo. 506, [6] pp. Original black binding, title in white on spine, first issue jacket with the white border around the photo on the rear panel (jacket slightly worn on the spine); overall in gorgeous condition. Inscribed by the author: "HST Sherry Neth Hotel July 26 '73 Cazart". Also some notations throughout.
First edition, stated first printing on the copyright page. One of Thompson's more colorful books detailing the presidential election of Richard Nixon in 1972. The inscription, from the Sherry Netherland Hotel (one of the author's favorites in New York) was most likely made while Thompson was being interviewed by one of the book's first reviewers.

Folio. Full-page etched plate in contemporary hand color. Rare in the original publisher's cloth with etched paper label affixed to the front panel, remains of spine label; minor foxing, overall in excellent condition.
First and only edition of this groundbreaking treatise on placental physiology dedicated to the famous anthropologist S. T. v. Soemmerring (1755-1830) on the 5th anniversary of his doctorate. Building on his published discovery of the mammalian ovum the prior year, Baer here lays out his four laws on epigenetic embryology, which dictate that mammals develop their general characteristics first and their specialized features later. This major step in research on fetal development addressed the issues of how the fetus is nourished and proved that the maternal blood circulation and fetal blood circulation are separate. His scientific findings effectively ended the theory of preformative embryonic development, thus aligning his theories with those of Darwin.
Von Baer… Read More

With 258 lithographs by Lasteyrie after drawings by Feillet and Haincelin (22 folding, some coloured). Contemporary full calf, gilt border on upper and lower covers, gilt spines; some browning and foxing. Bookplates and small release stamps of the Library of Congress; a very good set with ownership signature, possibly of A[ristide] Monteiro, dated Nov. 1871, with a few pages in manuscript laid in.
First edition of one of the most important anatomical atlases published in the nineteenth century. The four volumes include the sections on osteology, myology, neurology and angiology. The plates were published in sections over many years, and the lithographs were printed by de Lasteyrie and Engelman, pioneers of the development of lithographic art in France. A fifth volume was published in 1831.
Cloquet (1790-1883), a French physician and surgeon, was clinical professor of surgery at the Faculté de Médecine at Paris. He is famous not only for this anatomical atlas, but also for his research resulting in… Read More

With 4-page subscriber's list. Fine folding engraved map, "Sketch of the Western Countries of Canada 1791." (Bound with) DALRYMPLE, Major William Travels through Spain and Portugal, in 1774; with a short account of the Spanish expedition against Algiers, in 1775. London: Printed for J. Almon, 1777. With frontispiece and folding map. Two works in one. 4to. Contemporary diced russia, rebacked, marbled endpapers, flyleaves and edges; interior in excellent condition. From the library at Syston Park with bookplate. I: First edition of a major source on Indian life and the fur trade. Long was engaged by the Hudson's Bay Company as a fur trapper and trader between 1768 and 1787. He lived among and traded with the Indians for nineteen years. He details the natural history of the area, describing the lakes and rivers beyond Lake Superior. Long's account is also a valuable source on Indian vocabularies, and includes an extensive Chippewa lexicon.. II: First edition. In the form of 16 letters, the author details… Read More

London: Penguin Plays, 1961. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. Paperback in near fine wrappers with original price sticker on cover.

London: Penguin Plays, 1961. Paperback in near fine wrappers with some light sun spotting.

New York: Random House, 1961. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. Red boards with black cloth spine and gilt lettering, dustjacket clipped and beautifully preserved; a fine copy.

[Paris ?]: n.p., n.d.. Text in double columns within decorated woodcut borders. Page 1 is a front wrapper; bound into recent marbled boards; some browning and marginal staining. One of the earliest books on the construction and operation of a textile machine that fashioned hosiery. This invention, introduced in the mid-eighteenth century, contains the oldest known drawing of a hosiery-knitting device. The text, which describes all the working parts of the machine and how to assemble it, also gives detailed instruction on its operation. The remarkable plates are keyed to the text, with a beautiful illustration of a hosiery maker's workshop.

Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1894. FIRST EDITION. Each volume with half-title and engraved vignette title. Volume I with frontispiece portrait and large folding colour map. Half-calf and marbled boards with morocco spine labels, spines and corners lightly rubbed. First edition of this set, which contains much of Sir Walter Scott's correspondence with his family and friends.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970. FIRST EDITION. Numerous text illustrations. Publisher's cloth with an image of Mr. Fox on the front cover, author and title on spine, a fine clipped dust jacket with minor soiling; interior excellent.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1951. FIRST EDITION. Original green cloth, dust jacket in very good condition with some creasing and chips at the extremities and price clipped, protective mylar cover. Illustrated with nine black and white photographs.

New York: The Century Co., 1898. Uncut in the original green publisher's cloth, small tear in cloth to lower cover. Later edition of this novel set in pre-Civil War Pennsylvania. BAL, 6, 14135; BMC, XVII, 521 (both first ed.).

[Switzerland]: [Privately printed], 1964. FIRST EDITION. Blue marbled boards; presentation inscription to fly-leaf. First edition of this play in three acts, a modern-day Faustian tale. The inscription indicates that the book was written while the author was practicing medicine in England. Lium served as Medical Director of the American Hospital of Istanbul.

Paris: G. Masson, 1882. FIRST EDITION. With 12 plates and numerous text illustrations. Uncut in the original front wrapper, chipped, wrapper and first few leaves nearly detached; preliminary leaves somewhat spotted. First edition of the author's most important book. The work is divided into two parts, the first on the history, origin and theories of microscopic beings and their division into air, water and soil. The second section is devoted to aerobic and anaerobic bacteria, fermentation, bacterial reproduction and the study of enzymes. Duclaux (1840-1904), a friend and disciple of Pasteur, offered the world's first course in microbiology while teaching at the Sorbonne.

London: Longmans, Green, and Co. Ltd, 1928. FIRST EDITION. With 40 full-page plates and 11 text illustrations. Cloth, title in gilt on spine. Interesting bookplate idicating a loan to the library of the Medical Society for the County of Kings from the Associated Physicians of Long Island, and small stamp of Society's library.

London; Chicago: Macmillan and Co.; UAS, 1927. FIRST EDITION. I: With 9 photographic plates, numerous tables and text illustrations. Original maroon cloth, light stains around margins of front cover, uncut. From the Library Company of Philadelphia with their bookplate and stamp. II: Numerous photographic illustrations throughout. Illustrated wrappers, both front and back, with text and illustration on the reverse side of each wrapper.

Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1981. FIRST EDITION. Original orange cloth, dust jacket in pristine condition, protective mylar cover. Perfect.

London: Thomas Tegg, 1827. With engraved frontispiece, 18 numbered full-page etched plates and 1 full-page letterpress table. Contemporary cloth-backed binder's boards, paper spine label; glue damage to Plate X resulting in the inner margin of the next leaf being fused to it with minor loss of some words. Two ownership inscriptions on the front flyleaf, one dated 1835 and one dated 1842.

St. Petersburg: A. Golovachov Press, 1866. FIRST EDITION. With 1 folding engraved plate and numerous text illustrations. Original orange printed wrappers, spine slightly torn; interior occasional spotting, still a very good copy preserved in a folding clamshell box. First edition. Sechenov's theory of cerebral behaviour mechanisms was the basis for the development of neurophysiology and objective psychology in Russia, as well as the investigations of Pavlov and Bekhterev. This work contains Sechenov's discoveries that higher brain function is a material reflex consisting of three sectors: pleasure, fear and distress. He conceived that inhibition could be learned and as a person matured the degree of inhibition increased. The government attempted to censor his work and destroy the published materials, but through these lectures he disseminated his ideas amongst university students and earned himself the title of "father of Russian physiology.