Most of the books in the Markus Library Rare Book Collection were bequeathed by Alfred Einstein Cohn (1879-1957), emeritus of The Rockefeller Institute, one of the first cardiologists in the U.S., a scholar whose interests encompassed many fields and earned his high regard in the world of culture.
The scope of the collection is broad, encompassing the humanities, medicine, and natural history, including botany, agriculture, and geography.
Dr. Cohn's rare volumes of scientific and medical interest, published in 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries, include some of the major works of many of the great names in the history of medical science, often in the first editions: Celsus, Thomas Bartholinus, G. Borelli, Malpighi, Leuwenhoek, Richard Lower, Mead, and many others.
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Chevreul, Eugène
The Rockefeller University
Chevreul, Eugène. Recherches chimiques sur les corps gras d'origine animale. Avec une avant-propos de A. Arnaud, 1889
Subjects: Oils and fats – Analysis
Biochemistry
Notes: In two volumes
Language: French
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Cheyne, George
The Rockefeller University
Cheyne, George. An essay on regimen together with five discourses: serving to illustrate the principles and theory of philosophical medicine and point out some of its moral consequences, 1740
Subjects: Medicine – Early works to 1800
Language: English
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Cheyne, George
The Rockefeller University
Cheyne, George. An essay of health and long life, 1725
Subjects: Health – Early works to 1800
Notes: The fourth edition
Language: English
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Cheyne, George
The Rockefeller University
Cheyne, George. Tractatus de infirmorum sanitate tuenda, vitaque producenda. Libro ejusdem argumenti anglicè edito longè auctior & limatior, 1726
Subjects: Hygiene – Early works to 1800
Notes: Die Vorlage enth. Insgesamt ... Werke
Language: Latin
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Clarendon, Edward Hyde
The Rockefeller University
Clarendon, Edward Hyde. The life of Edward Earl of Clarendon: Lord High Chancellor of England, and Chancellor of the University of Oxford: containing, I. An account of the chancellor's life from his birth to the restoration in 1660, II. A continuation of the same, and of his history of the grand rebellion, from the restoration to his banishment in 1667, 1759
Subjects: Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of, 1609-1674, Historians, Statesmen
Notes: In three volumes. Vols. 2 and 3 each have a title page reading 'The continuation of the life of Edward Earl of Clarendon, ...'
Language: English
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Cullen, William
The Rockefeller University
Cullen, William. A synopsis of nosology, 1816
Subjects: Nosology
Notes: Translated from the Latin, with references to the best authors who have written since his time, by John Thompson; to which is added, Willan's classification of cutaneous diseases
Language: English
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Cuvier, Georges
The Rockefeller University
Cuvier, Georges. Essay on the theory of the earth, 1827
Subjects: Geology
Paleontology
Evolution (Biology)
Notes: Fifth edition, translated from the last French edition, with numerous additions by the author and translator. With geological illustrations by Professor Jameson
Language: English
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D'Alembert, Jean le Rond
The Rockefeller University
D'Alembert, Jean le Rond. Éléments de Musique Théorique et Pratique suivant les principes de M.Rameau, 1752
Subjects: Music theory
Notes: First edition
Language: French
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Darwin, Erasmus
The Rockefeller University
Darwin, Erasmus. Phytologia; or, the philosophy of agriculture and gardening. With the theory of draining morasses, and with an improved construction of the drill plough, 1800
Subjects: Botany – Early works to 1800
Gardening – Early works to 1800
Agriculture – Early works to 1800
Notes: Includes index
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Darwin, Erasmus
The Rockefeller University
Darwin, Erasmus. Zoonomia or, the laws of organic life in three parts. Complete in two volumes, 1803
Subjects: Physiology - Early works to 1800
Pathology - Early works to 1800
Medicine - Early works to 1800
Notes: Contains parts II and III of Zoonomia, which were originally published in London in 1796. An American edition of the previous part, with a preface by S.L. Mitchill, was published in New York in 1796
Language: English
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Darwin, Erasmus
The Rockefeller University
Darwin, E. The botanic garden. A poem in two parts. Pt. I Containing the Economy of vegetation. Pt. 2. the Loves of the plants. With philosophical notes, 1794-1795
Subjects: Plants, Poetry
Language: English
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Davy, Humphry
The Rockefeller University
Davy, Humphry. Elements of chemical philosophy: Part I, vol. 1, 1812
Subjects: Chemistry – Physical and theoretical
Chemistry - History
Notes: First edition. Historical view of the progress of chemistry: p. [1]-32
Language: English
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Dawson, Thomas
The Rockefeller University
Dawson, Thomas.Cases in the Acute Rheumatism and the Gout; with cursory remarks, and the method of treatment, 1781
Subjects: Medicine – Early works to 1800
Rheumatism
Notes: The fifth edition, with considerable additions
Language: English
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De febribus opus sane aureum
The Rockefeller University
De febribus opus sane aureum, non magis utile, quam rei medicae profitentibus necessarium : In quo trium sectarum clarissimi medici habentur, qui de hac re egerunt : nempè Graeci, Arabes, atque Latini, quorum nomina versa pagina indicabit : cum indice, tum capitum, tum rerum accomodatissimo, [1576]
Subjects: Fever – Early works to 1800
Notes: Includes extracts from Giovanni Marinello's Commentarii ... in lib. Hippocratis; the entire text of Galen's De differentiis febrium and selections from his Methodus medendi, bks. 8-12 and from his De methodo medendi ad Glauconem bk. 1; the first six chapters of book 3 of the so-called Medicina Plinii, ascribed to Plinius Valerianus; and a treatise headed "Philonii De febribus liber" which is taken from Valesco de Taranta's Philonium or Practica.
Language: Latin
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Denham, F.R.S.
The Rockefeller University
Major Denham, F.R.S., Captain Clapperton, ad the late Doctor Oudney. Narrative of travels and discoveries in Nothern and Central Africa, in the years 1822, 1823, and 1824. Vol.1. 1826
In two volumes
n 1821, Dixon Denham joined the British expedition to central Africa organised to gain access to the lucrative trans-Saharan trade between Tripoli (in modern Libya), the Bornu Empire (now part of Nigeria) and the Hausa states in the region. Assigned to accompany Walter Oudney and Hugh Clapperton, who were already in Africa, Denham brought instructions that the expedition was also to try and find the source of the River Niger. While partly successful in its goals, the expedition is notable for the animosity between Denham, Oudney and Clapperton.
Immediately unpopular with his fellow travellers due to his lacking any of the necessary skills to undertake an expedition, Denham was left in Tripoli while the rest of the party headed to the desert city of Murzuk in early 1822. As well as attempting to persuade local rulers to provide an escort across the Sahara, Denham also tried to return to London, sending letters in advance of his arrival that accused Oudney of incompetence, in the hopes of gaining a promotion so that he could return to Africa as the head of the expedition. He was rebuked for his lack of diplomacy and when the news reached the party in Murzuk, Oudney and Clapperton were shocked by his actions.
Denham arrived in Murzuk in late 1822 and in November the party set out for Bornu, but relations did not improve. In February 1823, the party reached Lake Chad, becoming the first Europeans to view the lake, and shortly after they reached Kuka, the capital of Bornu. While in Kuka, Denham accompanied a slave-raiding expedition against the wishes of the rest of the party. Barely escaping with his life, Denham then turned against Clapperton and made unfounded accusations of homosexual behaviour, sending a series of reports back to London. He later retracted the claims, but never told Clapperton of the fact.
In December, the party split up, with Oudney and Clapperton visiting Hausa lands nearby, while Denham set off to explore Lake Chad. Despite his supposed lack of skills, Denham was able to prove that the lake was not the source of the Niger as had been believed. Denham and Clapperton returned to Kuka in January 1824, the latter without Oudney, who had died on their journey. The two men returned to London in June 1825 and set about writing this account of the expedition. Clapperton was soon sent back to Nigeria on a mission to the sultan of Sokoto, so Denham took the opportunity to publish the account, greatly skewed in his own favour, without fear of being contradicted.
The book was well received, and Denham was soon elected Fellow of the Royal Society and in 1828 was appointed lieutenant-governor of Sierra Leone. He died within a month of arriving in Freetown.This beautifully bound volume was presented to the Royal Library by Denham’s widow in 1836.
Provenance
Presented to William IV by Harriet Denham, 1836.
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Descartes, René
The Rockefeller University
Descartes, René. Lettres de Mr. Descartes où sont traitées les plus belles Questions de la Morale, Physique, Médecine, et des Mathématiques, 1657
Subject: Descartes, René -- Correspondencia
Language: French
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Descartes, René
The Rockefeller University
Descartes, René. Principia philosophiae, 1644
Subjects: Philosophy
Language: Latin
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Du Bois-Reymond, von Emil
The Rockefeller University
Du Bois-Reymond, von Emil. Untersuchungen über thierische Elektricität, 1848
Subjects: Electrophysiology
Notes: First edition of the most important work by the founder of modern electrophysiology Emil Heinrich Du Bois-Reymond (1818-1896).
Language: German
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Du Châtele, Émilie
The Rockefeller University
Du Châtelet, Émilie. Institutions de physique, 1741
Subjects: Physics – Early works to 1800
Notes: Includes index
Language: French
