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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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. 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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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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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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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
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Dutens, Louis
The Rockefeller University
Dutens, Louis. An inquiry into the origin of the discoveries attributed to the moderns: wherein it is demonstrated that our most celebrated philosophers have, for most part, taken what they advance from the works of the ancients; and that many important truths in religion were known to the pagan sages, 1769
Subject: Science - Early works to 1800
Notes: First edition
Language: English
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Faraday, Michael
The Rockefeller University
Faraday, Michael. On the various forces of nature & their relations to each other. A course of lectures delivered before a juvenile audience at the Royal Institution by Michael Faraday, ed. by William Crookes, 1894
Subjects: Physics
Language: English
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Fowler, George
The Rockefeller University
Fowler, George. A treatise on surgery, 1906
Subjects: Surgery
Notes: In two volumes
Language: English
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Friend, John
The Rockefeller University
Friend, John. The history of physick: from the time of Galen, to the beginning of the sixteenth century. Chiefly with regard to practice. In a discourse written to Doctor Mead. By J. Freind, M.D, 1725
Subjects: Medicine, Ancient
Medicine – Early works to 1800
Notes: In two volumes. Includes 'Vita Gabrielis filii Bachtishnæ, filii Georgii, ex Arabico Latine reddita a Salomone Negri damasceno' at the end of the second volume.
Language: English
