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

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1915. FIRST EDITION. With frontispiece and 28 plates. Original green cloth, decorated in blind and gilt, minor wear at head and foot of spine; uncut. First edition, one of 750 copies. "The following compilation aims to present the 'Boston of Holmes,' as set forth by himself. The many passages dealing with this his favorite topic have been gleaned from his entire works and have been fitted together in chronological order." Ticknor (1866-1937) made a name for herself writing biographical works about America's greatest authors. Her other works include Hawthorne and his publisher, May Alcott, a memoir; Poe's Helen, and A poet in exile: early letters of John Hay. C&T, p. 261.

[Martinique], 1964. Villa Mauresque, St. Jean-Cap Ferrat stationary, watermarked Vidalon, France. Signature in blue ink, most likely that of a fountain pen. To a Mr. Blevins, thanking him for his "charming card and good wishes.".

1. Appendix to the Descriptive list of instruments. April, 1895. 31 pp. Numerous text illustrations. Folded and stabbed as issued. The company's new apparatus and designs for instruments in physics and biology.
2. Physiological instruments. 1899. viii, 126 pp., including index. Text illustrations throughout. Original printed wrappers. Sections include recording cylincers, myographs, motors; supports for apparatus; time markers; nerve and muscle; electric; blood circulation; spectroscopes and blood analysis; microtomes and microscope accessories; surgical and various apparatus; botany; and anthropometric and models.
3. A descriptive list of instruments. March, 1891. xii, 127 pp. Text illustrations throughout. Original printed wrappers. Noted on the title page that this is No. 12 and that "this list cancels those previously issued." Manuscript note on the fly-leaf: "With the compliments of the Company." Preface by Horace Darwin. With 28 sections, including measurement of length,… Read More

Two works in one. 4to. [vi], 64; 16, [2] leaves. Title page to each work. Three lovely woodblock text initials. Half-calf with paper boards; some leaves lightly water-stained along lower corners, otherwise an excellent copy.First edition of two rare treatises on syphilis. "In this classic work on 'the French disease,' Fallopius wrote more knowingly of the Europe-wide scourge of syphilis than previous authors on the subject and was one of the first to oppose the use of mercury in its treatment." Posthumously printed, Fallopius (1523-1562) was a surgeon and professor at Ferrar, Pisa and Padua where he succeeded his own teacher Vesalius. He here asserts his belief that syphilis was brought to Europe from America by the associates of Columbus, and strongly recommends the use of guaiac wood for its cure, though he also mentions certain other remedies.The second treatise on the same subject is by Fracanzano (1500?-1569), who became professor of medicine at Padua in 1539.There is a variant issue of De morbo… Read More

New York: Pellegrini & Cudahy, 1952. FIRST EDITION. Original peach publisher's cloth, title in gilt to spine. Very fine, in original dust-jacket. First edition of this collection of stories. Divided into three sections, the first made up of science-fictions stories, the second of "weird fiction" and the third consisting of tales inspired by Keller's psychiatric practice.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1920. Illustration on title. Red illustrated publisher's cloth, map of Africa and Arabia on both endpapers; interior very good.

Boston: David Clapp & Son, 1867. FIRST EDITION. Original printed wrappers. An excellent copy with presentation inscription from Mr. B.B. Kent Jr. To Dr. Sinclair on the front wrapper, and a small duplicate stamp on title. First edition of Holmes' famous lecture. It was announced in The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal of December 19, 1867, that this was printed for the use of the Medical Class at Harvard University. BAL, 8860; C&T, p. 131; Cushing, H423.

London; New York: Routledge & Sons; Dutton & Co, 1912. FIRST EDITION. With 16 full-page plates, text illustrations. Original publisher's cloth; author's inscription dated 1912 on the fly-leaf. PRESENTATION COPY. First edition. Telephoto lenses were introduced in 1891 by Steinheil and Dallmeyer. The outstanding feature of their discovery was large, clear pictures of distant objects. The present text is the first attempt to outline the theory and techniques of telephotography.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1961. FIRST EDITION. Grey cloth with white lettering on spine, dustjacket price clipped and in pristine condition, top edges red; overall a crisp and beautiful copy.

USA: New London Press, 1980. FIRST EDITION. Black cloth boards with red lettering and gilt border on cover and spine; an absolutely gorgeous copy with no flaws. Preserved in a protective sleeve.

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1841. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Includes all half-titles and publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's cloth decorated in blind; all volumes have been re-backed with the original back-strips laid down. Small ownership stamp with crown and initial "D" in each volume. First English edition of one of the most famous novels about law. This tragi-comic novel became one of the most popular books of the century. It is an account of Mr. Tittlebat Titmouse, a draper's assistant, who comes into a large fortune thanks to documents forged by lawyers. Having successfully ousted the rightful owners of the property, the lawyers proceed to blackmail Titmouse. He marries Lady Cecilia, the daughter of the earl of Dredlington, and is returned to parliament by reckless corruption. Mr. Titmouse and his didactic rise and fall via legal fraud and lawyers is legendary. Warren's novels are usually recommended to law students. His last novel, Now and then, was made into a… Read More

London: Excudebat Henricus Middletonus, 1580. FIRST EDITION. Woodcut title vignette, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. Later tree calf in a contemporary style, spine with raised bands and "Biblia Sacra" in gilt; very narrow strip cut away from top of title page affecting manuscript ownership signature. Lacking the final two parts as well as the separate title pages for the second through fourth individual parts. Contemporary annotations. First edition of the first complete Latin Bible printed in England, one of five imprints of the 1580 edition. The Latin translation from the Hebrew and Syriac was the work of Immanuel Tremellius (1510-1580), an Italian Jewish convert, first to Catholicism, then to Protenstantism. In 1547 he was invited to England by Thomas Cranmer (1489-1556), the Archbishop of Canterbury. In 1549 he succeeded Paul Fagius as Regius professor of Hebrew at Cambridge. He was assisted by Franciscus Junius (the Elder) (1545-1602), his son-in-law. Tremellius' translation first… Read More

New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1987. FIRST EDITION. Original cloth-backed boards; a fine copy in the original pictorial dust-jacket. Newspaper reviews of the book laid in. First edition. "The Thanatos syndrome is a profoundly serious and often very funny novel which scans American culture like radar . . . which demonstrates how easily evil is committed by people convinced they are doing what is right and good. . .".

London: William Heineman, 1937. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, SECOND ISSUE. Original blue publisher's cloth, gilt lettering to top cover and spine. First English edition, second issue. Page 7, as in all second issues, is a cancel, with the erroneous line 12 corrected to read "I don't not eat bread." Rothschild & Whiteman, 209; Stott, A52b; NCBEL, 4, 663.

New York: Peter J. Ryan, 1962. Text illustrations throughout. Original pictorial wrappers, a few small chips; one section of interior lightly browned, otherwise a clean copy. Contains Williams' complete play Many loves. Wallace, C311.

London: W. and J. Innys, 1720. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Wooduct initials, head- and tailpieces, 1 folding plate. Contemporary paneled calf, rebacked; slight foxing on preliminary leaves, overall a fine copy.

Paris: Imprimerie de la Republique, 1797. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Errata on final text leaf. Contemporary marbled paste-paper boards.

Leipzig: B.G. Teubner, 1867. FIRST EDITION. Half-morocco over marbled boards. An excellent copy from the library of Dutch astronomer Adriaan van Maanen, with his signature on the title page and his presentation bookplate to the Mount Wilson Observatory. First edition of one of Neumann's most important works. Neumann (1832-1925) was professor of mathematics at both the Universities of Tübingen and Leipzig. His main interests were in applied mathematics, and he wrote on mathematical physics, potential and electrodynamics. He was also editor of Mathematische Annalen.

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1944. FIRST EDITION. With corrigenda laid in. Original cloth, head an tail of spine very slightly worn, otherwise an excellent copy.

Frankfort a.M.: Claude de Marne and Jean Aubry, 1593. LATER EDITION. Woodcut portrait of the author on the title verso. Modern morocco-backed boards. Marginal worming to the first few quires, light marginal dampstaining, final quire gnawed at the outer edge, not affecting text.