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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Josephus, Flavius
The Rockefeller University
Josephus, Flavius. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated into English by Sir Roger L'Estrange, Knight, 1709
Subjects: Jews – History
Notes: Second edition
Language: English
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La Mettrie de, Julien Offroy
The Rockefeller University
La Mettrie de, Julien Offroy. Traité de la petite vérole: avec la manière de guérir cette maladie: suivant le principes de Mr. Herman Boerhaave, 1740
Subjects: Smallpox - Early works to 1800
Notes: Title vignette; head and tail pieces
Language: French
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Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent
The Rockefeller University
Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent. Traité élémentaire de chimie, 1789
Subjects: Chemistry – Early works to 1800
Notes: In 2 volumes
Language: French
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Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent
The Rockefeller University
Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent. Elements of chemistry: in a new systematic order, containing all the modern discoveries. Illustrated by thirteen copperplates. By Mr. Lavoisier, Member of the Academies and Societies of Paris, London, Orleans, Bologna, Basil, Philadelphia, Haerlem, Manchester, &c. &c. Translated from the French by Robert Kerr, F.R. & A. SS. Edin. Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, and of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh, [1799]
Subjects: Chemistry – Early works to 1800
Chemistry
Notes: 4th ed., with notes, tables, and considerable additions
Language: English
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Ledermüller, Martin Frobenius
The Rockefeller University
Ledermüller, Martin Frobenius. Amusement microscopique tant pour l'esprit, que pour les yeux : contenant cinquante estampes dessinées d'après nature et enluminées, avec leurs explications, 1766
Subjects: Natural History - Early works to 1800
Microscopy
Language: French
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Leeuwenhoek, Antoni van
The Rockefeller University
Leeuwenhoek, Antoni van. Antonii a Leeuwenhoek ... Epistolæ ad Societatem Regiam Anglicam, et alios illustres viros, 1719
Subjects: Natural history – To 1735
Physiology – To 1800
Microscopy – Early works to 1800
Notes: Binder's title of the spine: Leeuwenhoek Opera Omnia. pars 3
Language: Latin
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Le Gallois, Julien Jean César
The Rockefeller University
Le Gallois, Julien Jean César. Experiments on the principle of life: and particularly on the principle of the motions of the heart, and on the seat of this principle: including the report made to the first class of the Institute, upon the experiments relative to the motions of the heart, 1813
Subjects: Life (Biology)
Heart, Vitalism
Notes: Originally published in Paris in 1812 under the title: Expériences sur le principe de la vie. Translated by N.C. and J.G. Nancrede
Language: English
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Leonardo da Vinci
The Rockefeller University
Leonardo da Vinci. I manoscritti di Leonardo da Vinci della Reale biblioteca di Windsor. Dell'anatomia, fogli B, pubblicati da Teodoro Sabachnikoff. Trascritti ed annotati da Giovanni Piumati. Con traduzione in lingua francese, 1901
Subjects: Human anatomy – Early works to 1800
Manuscript, Italian - Facsimiles
Note: Text of "Dell'anatomia" with French translation beneath. Plates have guard sheets with descriptive letterpress and numbered outlines of the figures on the accompanying plate. Half title-page. Facsimile edition. Includes index.
Language: Italian
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L'Hôpital de, Guillaume
The Rockefeller University
L'Hôpital de, Guillaume. Traité analytique des sections coniques et de leur usage pour la resolution des equations dans les problemes tant déterminez qu'indéterminez, 1707
Subjects: Mathematica - History
Language: French
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Linne von, Carl
The Rockefeller University
Linne von, Carl. Fauna Svecica, 1746
Subjects: Zoology - Bibliography
Language: Latin
Format: Book
Summary: Fundamental works on flora and fauna of Sweden by the founder of the binomial system of nomenclature and the hierarchical system of classification. The Flora Svecica appeared in two simultaneous issues, both printed by Salvii at Stockholm, but one with a Stockholm imprint, and the other with a Leiden imprint.
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Livy
The Rockefeller University
Livy. The Roman history: written in Latine by Titus Livius with the supplements of the learned John Freinshemius and John Dujatius. From the foundation of Rome to the middle of the reign of Augustus. Faithfully done in English, 1686
Subjects: Rome – History – Republic, 510-30 B.C.
Notes: Important and scarce early English translation of Livy’s History of Rome updated form Holland’s translation published in 1600.
Language: English
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Locke, John
The Rockefeller University
Locke, John. An essay concerning humane understanding: in four books, 1694
Subjects: Knowledge, Theory of - Early works to 1800
Notes: Includes an index
Language: English
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Lower, Richard
The Rockefeller University
Lower, Richard. Tractatus de corde, item De motu & colore sanguinis, & chyli in eum transitu. Cui accessit dissertatio de origine catarrhi, in qua ostenditur illum non provenire à cerebro, 1671
Subjects: Heart
Blood
Notes: Incomplete. Lacks 4 of 6 plates
Language: Latin
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Magendie, François
The Rockefeller University
Magendie, François. Lectures on the blood; and on the changes which it undergoes during disease, 1839
Subjects: Blood
Blood Vessels
Notes: Delivered at the College of France in 1837-8
Language: English
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Maglio, Leopoldo
The Rockefeller University
Maglio, Leopoldo. Della morte apparente degli animali non dipendenta da malattia, 1751
Subjects: Death, Apparent – Early works to 1800
Notes: Attribution to Leopoldo Maglio quoted in Melzi
Language: Italian
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Malpighii, Marcelli; Fracassati, Caroli
The Rockefeller University
Malpighii, Marcelli; Fracassati, Caroli. Epistolæ anatomicæ virorum clarissimorum Marcelli Malpighii et Caroli Fracassati. Quarum contenta pagina versa exhibet, 1669
Subjects: Human anatomy--Early works to 1800
Language: Latin
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Mandl, Louis
The Rockefeller University
Mandl, Louis. Traité pratique du microscope et de son emploi dans l'étude des corps organisés; suivi de Recherches sur l'organisation des animaux infusoires, 1839
Language: French
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Mangeti, Joh. Jacobi
The Rockefeller University
Mangeti, Joh. Jacobi. Joh. Jacobi Mangeti Theatrum anatomicum : quô, non tantùm integra totius corporis humani in suas partes, ac minutiores particulas evoluti, & quasi resoluti, fabrici, ex selectioribus, veterum & recentiorum omnium observationibus, retecta sistitur, 1717
Subjects: Human anatomy – Early works to 1800
Notes: In two volumes
Language: Latin
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Maupertuis, Pierre Louis Moreau
The Rockefeller University
Maupertuis, Pierre Louis Moreau.
Subjects: Reproduction
Human skin color
Language: French
Notes: A remarkable work on embryology and genetic
Summary: A scientist, philosopher, and original thinker, Maupertuis was years ahead of his time in many aspects of biology, particularly embryology and genetics. His arguments against the then-prevailing theory of preformation and for epigenesis were so close to the idea of evolution that he is a true forerunner of Darwin and Mendel.
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Maynwaring, Everard
The Rockefeller University
Maynwaring, Everard. Medicus Absolutus Adespotos. The complete physician, qualified and dignified. The rise and progress of physics, historically, chronologically, and philosophically illustrated, 1668
Subjects: Medicine – Early works to 1800
Language: English