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Rare Books

 

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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  • Dutens, Louis by The Rockefeller University

    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

    Full text

    Subject: Science - Early works to 1800

    Notes: First edition

    Language: English

  • Faraday, Michael by The Rockefeller University

    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

    Full text

    Subjects: Physics

    Language: English

  • Fowler, George by The Rockefeller University

    Fowler, George

    The Rockefeller University

    Fowler, George. A treatise on surgery, 1906

    Full text

    Subjects: Surgery

    Notes: In two volumes

    Language: English

  • Friend, John by The Rockefeller University

    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

    Full text

    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

  • Friend, John by The Rockefeller University

    Friend, John

    The Rockefeller University

    Friend, John. Joannis Freind ... Opera omnia medica, 1735

    Subjects: Medicine – Early works to 1800

    Language: Latin

  • Gage, Thomas by The Rockefeller University

    Gage, Thomas

    The Rockefeller University

    Gage, Thomas. Nouvelle Relation, contenant les Voyages de Thomas Gage dans la Nouvelle-Espagne, ses diverses aventures et son retour par la province de Nicaragua jusqu'à la Havane, 1699

    Full text, vol. 1

    Full text, vol.2

    Subjects: Central America – Description and travel

    Notes: In two volumes. First published under title: The English-American, his travail by sea and land (London, 1648). This translation first published Paris, 1676, and previously by Marret in 1695. Sabin mentions Adrien Baillet as a translator, though le sieur Beaulieu Hues O'Neil is credited on the t.p. as Sabin cites it. The section on the Pokonchi language is here omitted.

    Language: French

  • Galilei, Galileo by The Rockefeller University

    Galilei, Galileo

    The Rockefeller University

    Galilei, Galileo. Opere di Galileo Galilei linceo nobile fiorentino, Già Lettore delle Matematiche nelle Università di Pisa, e di Padova, di poi Sopraordinario nello Studio di Pisa, 1655-1656

    Subjects: Astronomy – Early works to 1800

    Notes: First edition of the first collected works of the father of modern physics, edited by Carlo Manolessi. In two volumes

    Language: Latin

  • Galilei, Galileo by The Rockefeller University

    Galilei, Galileo

    The Rockefeller University

    Galilei, Galileo. Sydereus nuncius magna, longeque admirabilia spectacula pandens, suspiciendaque proponens unicuique, praesertim vero Philosophis, atque Astronomis, quae a Galileo Galileo patritio Florentino Patauini Gymnasij publico mathematico perspicilli nuper à se reperti beneficio sunt obseruata in lunae facie ...circa Iovis stellam disparibus interuallis, atque periodis ... nuncupandos decrevit, 1656

    Full text

    Subjects: Astronomy – Early works to 1800

    Language: Latin


  • Galilei, Galileo by The Rockefeller University

    Galilei, Galileo

    The Rockefeller University

    Galilei, Galileo. Dialogo di Galileo Galilei, Dove nei congressi di quattro giornate si discorre sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo Tolemaico, e Corpernicano;... In questa impressione migliorato ed accresciuto sopra l'esemplare dell'autore stesso, 1744

    Subjects: Astronomy – Early works to 1800

    Language: Italian

    Galileo’s Dialogo is a scientific and philosophical affirmation of the Copernican heliocentric theory over the earth-centered Ptolemaic theory of the solar system. Written in a literary style, Galileo deliberately chose to write this work in vernacular Italian rather than scholarly Latin in order to reach a mass audience. The topic made Galileo a threat to the authority of the Roman Catholic Church. It was this book that brought Galileo before the Inquisition in 1633, where he was forced to recant his views. He was put under permanent house arrest. Dialogo was placed on the Index of the prohibited book where it remained until 1835.

  • Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Etienne by The Rockefeller University

    Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Etienne

    The Rockefeller University

    Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Etienne. Philosophie anatomique, 1818

    Full text

    Subjects: Respiratory organs, Abnormalities, Human

    Language: French

  • Goldsmith, J. by The Rockefeller University

    Goldsmith, J.

    The Rockefeller University

    Goldsmith, J.A general view of the manners, customs, and curiosities of the nations; including a geographical description of the earth, the whole illus. by fifty-four maps, and other engravings, 1813

    Subjects: Geography- Textbooks

    World History

    Notes: In two volumes

    Language: English

  • Goldsmith, Oliver by The Rockefeller University

    Goldsmith, Oliver

    The Rockefeller University

    Goldsmith, Oliver. A History of earth and animated nature, 1825

    Subjects: Zoology

    Physical geography

    Notes: In one volume. Embellished with a series of beautiful and appropriate engravings, designed and executed by the first artists

    Language: English


  • Guénée, Antoine by The Rockefeller University

    Guénée, Antoine

    The Rockefeller University

    Guénée, Antoine. Lettres de Quelques Juifs Portugais et Allemands, à M. de Voltaire; avec des réflexions critiques, &c. Et un petit commentaire extrait d'un plus grand, 1772

    Subjects: France; cultural history - Ideas and movements, before 1800 - Personalities - Voltaire

    Notes: 3d edition in two volumes

    Language: French

  • Haeser, Heinrich by The Rockefeller University

    Haeser, Heinrich

    The Rockefeller University

    Haeser, Heinrich. Lehrbuch der Geschichte der Medicin und der Volkskrankheiten, 1875

    Full text

    Subjects: Medicine - History

    Notes: An important German work on the history of medicine

    Language: German

  • Hales, Stephen by The Rockefeller University

    Hales, Stephen

    The Rockefeller University

    Hales, Stephen. Statical essays: containing vegetable staticks; or, an account of some statical experiments on the sap in vegetables, 1731-1733

    Full text, vol. 1

    Full text, vol. 2

    Subjects: Plant physiology

    Blood

    Notes: In two volumes. Second edition, with amendments

    Language: English

  • Haller von, Albrecht by The Rockefeller University

    Haller von, Albrecht

    The Rockefeller University

    Haller von, Albrecht. Primae lineae physiologiae, in usum praelectionum academicarum, 1767

    Full text

    Subjects: Physiology

    Human anatomy

    Language: Latin



  • Haller von, Albrecht by The Rockefeller University

    Haller von, Albrecht

    The Rockefeller University

    Haller von, Albrecht. First line of physiology, 1803

    Full text

    Subjects: Physiology

    Human anatomy

    Notes: First American edition

    Language: English

  • Haller von, Albrecht by The Rockefeller University

    Haller von, Albrecht

    The Rockefeller University

    Haller von, Albrecht. Deux Memoires sur le mouvement du sang et sur les effets de la saignée: fondes sur des experiences faites sur des Animaux, 1756

    Subjects: Medicine – Early works to 1800

    Language: Latin


  • Helmont van, Jan Baptist by The Rockefeller University

    Helmont van, Jan Baptist

    The Rockefeller University

    Helmont van, Jan Baptist. Ortus medicinae, id est, initia physicae inaudita: progressus medicinae novus, in morborum ultionem, ad vitam longam, 1651

    Full text

    Subjects: Chemistry – Early works to 1800

    Language: Latin

  • Helmont van, Jan Baptist by The Rockefeller University

    Helmont van, Jan Baptist

    The Rockefeller University

    Helmont van, Jan Baptistn. A ternary of paradoxes: the magnetick cure of wounds, nativity of tartar in wine, image of God in man, 1650

    Full text

    Subjects: Medicine - Early works to 1800

    Theological Anthropology

    Wounds and injuries

    Language: English

 

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