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

8vo. 48 pp. Original printed wrappers. Save for some small chips at extremities of spine, and some light soiling, a fine copy. From the library of Carroll Atwood Wilson, with his bookplate. Housed in a red cloth folding case.
First edition, with the manuscript correction at page 22, found in copies of the first and second editions, presumed to be in Holmes' hand.
C&T, 86; BAL, 8794.

. 85 x 52 x 15 mm. Rectangular wooden sundial made of two hand-carved panels with hand-colored paper scales and tables covering three faces. The upper outside panel has 22 European and American cities listed alphabetically with their latitudes. The interior upper panel contains and equinoctial sundial calibrated from VII to XII to V. The lower interior panel houses a compass rose inside a glass compartment with the cardinal directions, surrounded by a horizontal sundial calibrated from 4 to 12 to 8 with divisions for each half hour. Each compartment is decorated with flowers and foliage. A string gnomon links the two panels and a functional clasp with eye closure locks the case. The compass appears to still be in working condition. Signed "J. Kleininger" on the rose. Outer panels soiled from use but still legible and complete. A fine piece.
A gorgeous and functional portable timekeeper. Intended for use by a world traveler, it serves as both a sundial and compass and lists coordinates for such… Read More

London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1894. FIRST EDITION. With 21 plates and numerous text illustrations. Without the list of the author's other works that usually faces the half title. Half calf and marbled boards, edges scuffed; a lovely copy with occasional foxing. With the bookplate of Emerson Bainbridge, a noted English philanthropist and politician. First edition. Part travelogue, part poetic musings, the author here spins charming tales of his travels. Undertaken when he was a much older man, Arnold's rambles took him primarily to the Pacific and Far East, though he also writes about Egypt, the Holy Land, India, and California in this work. He was particularly interested in Japan, and his writings "helped to spread in England optimistic views of Japanese progress and culture" (DNB).Arnold (1832-1934) was an English poet and journalist best known for his epic poem "The Light of Asia." He began his journalism career at the Daily Telegraph where he eventually became editor. Arnold had a lifelong… Read More

New York: Francis P. Harper, 1896. FIRST EDITION. Original publisher's navy-blue cloth; uncut and partially unopened. From the library of Gordon Blanding with his stamp on title and the paste-down. First edition, number 80 of an edition limited to 450 copies. A lovely copy of this fascinating analysis.

Braunschweig: Vieweg, 1888. WITH: O. Fischer, Matyas Lerch, E. Phragmen, C. Neumann, C. Meray. 1. DEDEKIND, Richard Was sind und was sollen die Zahlen. Braunschweig: Vieweg and Son, 1888.8vo. xviii, 58 pp., including half-title.First edition, rare, of Dedekind's important work on set theory. His epochal 1872 publication, Stetigkeit und irrationale zahlen, gave the first rigorous definition of the system of real numbers, laying the foundation for much of modern day real analysis and point-set topology. This, his follow-up work, elaborates on his attempts "to derive a purely logical foundation for arithmetic, and devised a number of axioms that formally and exactly represented the logical concept of whole numbers" (DSB). Dedekind (1831-1916), a German mathematician, friend and colleague of Georg Cantor, claimed all of mathematics to be a branch of logic. In this work (The nature and meaning of numbers), he "presents a theory of the integers using set-theoretic concepts and outlines a possible… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1968. FIRST EDITION. Original brown cloth, dust jacket in very good condition with clipped price, protective mylar cover. Gift inscription on the front flyleaf.

London: John Murray, 1823. FIRST EDITIONS. Contemporary half-calf over marbled boards, spine worn and front hinge starting; generally in very good condition, the exception being the last part of Parisina which is quite soiled with a few tears. Werner is a second issue with "The End" added below text and the printer's imprint at the foot of p. 188. The prisoner of Chillon collates as a first edition, first issue, however, the two leaves of ads are not present. The Giaour also collates as a first edition. The Siege of Corinth & Parisina lacks signature A (title and blanks).

New York: The Century Co., 1913. FIRST EDITION. Original green publisher's cloth, upper cover slightly bumped, spine slightly faded with some light wear to extremities. Ownership inscription to fly-leaf. First edition of this novel based upon the social structure of small villages in pre-Civil War America. BAL, 6, 14272; BMC, XVII, 523.

New York: Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1909. FIRST EDITION. With half-title and 1 plate. Green cloth, gilt spine and gilt title on front cover, rear cover with some scuff marks, corners slightly bumped; text is clean and bright. A very good copy. First edition of an important examination of the origin of life from the perspective of a physician. With this work, Thomson intended to "show that enough has been demonstrated already to prove that the hypothesis of earthly life ever having had a spontaneous, or mechanical, or physico-chemical origin, is wholly untenable" (Preface, p. vi). Additionally, he delves into several perspectives on the question of the origin of physical life, including that of Darwin and his contemporaries, presenting as many facets as he can. He also discusses reproduction and heredity, unicellular and multicellular organisms, adaptations, and the "great food question," in which he posits that all life requires food or sustenance of some sort. He uses Darwin's eat or be eaten theory… Read More

Cleveland: World Publishing Company, 1944. FIRST EDITION. Numerous text illustrations. Publisher's red cloth, original dust jacket, other than some wearing at the corners and edges, in excellent condition.

New York: The Century Co., 1894. FIRST EDITION. including 2 half-titles. Original green publisher's cloth, light wear to spine, very small spots to lower cover; some scattered foxing. First edition of this novel set in Canada. BAL, 6, 14160; BMC, XVII, 523.

New Brunswick: Johnson & Johnson, 1927. FIRST EDITION. Original glossy printed wrappers. Complete with errata slip. First edition. Contains over portraits of the attendees of the public dinner given in honor of Holmes by the medical profession of the city of New York. C&T, p. 588.

New Brunswick: Johnson & Johnson, 1927. FIRST EDITION. Original glossy printed wrappers. Complete with errata slip. First edition. Contains over portraits of the attendees of the public dinner given in honor of Holmes by the medical profession of the city of New York. C&T, p. 588.

Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1889. With 36 beautiful text illustrations. Publisher's vellum-backed boards, author and title in gilt on front board and spine; an excellent uncut copy with the bookplate of the Johns Hopkins Ex Libris Club noting the presentation by the Hon. Theodore Marburg. First edition of Smith's travelogue describing his time spent in Mexico. This work includes the author's many observations on the politics, governments, resources, religions, social conditions and the people of Mexico during the late nineteenth century. The wonderful illustrations are by the author. Smith (1838-1915) was an American author, artist and engineer, a descendant of Francis Hopkinson, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. He built the foundation for the Statue of Liberty.

Norfolk, Conn.: New Directions, 1937. FIRST EDITION. including half-title and page of publisher's advertisements. Publisher's cloth, in the original dust-jacket. First edition of this novel about the American dream. "White mule is the story of a plain American family of immigrant origin in pre-war New York . . . Through its depth of observation White mule becomes more than a good novel. It is also a definition of the American spirit." Some of the chapters of this novel were first published in Pagany magazine and in The Magazine. The story was continued in two subsequent Williams novels, In the money and The build-up. Wallace, A18.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1893. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Frontispiece with tissue guard plus 23 full-page and numerous text illustrations by Frederick Remington, A.B. Frost, Henry Sandham and C. Harry Eaton. Original publisher's decorated cloth with an antelope head in gilt on the front cover, spine somewhat darkened, otherwise a very nice copy. First edition, first issue (with chapter headpieces printed in brown) of Roosevelt's splendid account of his Western adventures. He starts with a description of the American west, with details of its land, pioneers and settlers. Readers are mesmerized with tales of hunting on the Great Plains, the Badlands and the Rocky Mountains that only Roosevelt can weave. Roosevelt (1858-1919), twenty-sixth president of the United States, was famed for his service as Colonel of the Rough Riders and his charge up San Juan Hill during the Spanish-American War. He received the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize for his role in mediating the end of the Russo-Japanese War.… Read More

[Philadelphia]: [Union League of Philadelphia], 1864. FIRST EDITION. Wrappers, disbound; light soiling and toning. First edition of this scarce pamphlet published during the 1864 elections in support of re-electing Lincoln as President. Monaghan, 359.

San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1969. Two-tone cloth in original dust-jacket.

London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1922. FIRST EDITION. Tipped in frontispiece portrait and engraved title preceding 116 plates (6 in color). Original publisher's cloth, gilt lettering, some rubbing on corners; interior excellent.

[Charlottesville]: University of Virginia, 1951. FIRST EDITION. Stapled, mimeographed typescript, printed on rectos and versos. Caption title. Stapled to a leaf of brown paper, folded, stamp on first leaf, "Biography / Faulkner, Wm." printed in pen on top right of first leaf. First printing of this biographical lecture, presented as the First Peters Rushton Seminar in Contemporary Prose and Poetry, the sixteenth in the series sponsored by the schools of English at the University of Virginia.