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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Mead, Richard
The Rockefeller University
Mead, Richard. The medical works of Richard Mead, 1762
Subjects: Medicine – Collected Works – 18th century
Notes: Includes indices and errata
Language: English
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Mead, Richard
The Rockefeller University
Mead, Richard. Opera medica. I. De imperio solis ac lunae in corpora humana & morbis inde oriundis. II. De variolis & Morbillis liber. III. Rhazis de variolis & morbillis commentarius ex Arabico Latine redditus. IV. Oratio anniversaria Harveiana. V. De nummis quibusdam a smyrnaeis in medicorum honorem percussis, 1746
Subjects: Medicine – Early works to 1800
Notes: 3 volumes in one
Language: Latin
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Mead, Richard
The Rockefeller University
Mead, Richard.
Subjects: Medicine - History
Language: Latin
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Mead, Richard
The Rockefeller University
Mead, Richard. A mechanical account of poisons in several essays, 1702
Subjects: Poisons – Early works to 1800
Opium – Early works to 1800
Language: English
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Métherie, Jean-Claude de
The Rockefeller University
Métherie, Jean-Claude de. Vues physiologiques sur l'organisation animale et végétale, 1780
Subjects: Physiology – Early works to 1800
Notes: First edition
Language: French
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Métherie, Jean-Claude de
The Rockefeller University
Métherie, Jean-Claude de. Vues physiologiques sur l'organisation animale et végétale, 1780
Subjects: Physiology – Early works to 1800
Notes: First edition
Language: French
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More, Thomas
The Rockefeller University
More, Thomas. Utopia, 1851
Subjects: Utopia
Notes: Translated by Gilbert Burnet
Language: English
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Morgagni, Giovanni Battista
The Rockefeller University
Morgagni, Giovanni Battista. De Sedibus, et Causis Morborum per anatomen Indagatis libri quinque. Dissectiones, et Animadversiones, nunc primum editas, complectuntur propemodum innumeras, medicis, chirurgis, anatomicis profuturas, 1761
Subjects: Medicine - Early works to 1800
Anatomy, Pathology
Notes: First edition
Language: Latin
Summary: De Sedibus is one of the most important books in the history of medicine. Morgagni was a professor of anatomy at Padua for over 56 years and is regarded as "the true founder of pathological anatomy" (Morton). A monumental work that established the organ concept of disease and made pathological anatomy a major medical discipline. In exhaustive detail, Morgagni reports on nearly 700 cases and autopsies. Several conditions are described for the first time including classic descriptions of mitral stenosis, heart block (Adams-Stokes Syndrome), angina pectoris, syphilitic aneurysm, and tuberculosis of the kidney. "Morgagni's contribution to the understanding of disease may well rank with the contributions of Vesalius in anatomy and Harvey in physiology" (Eimas)
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Mosheim, Johann Lorenz
The Rockefeller University
Mosheim, Johann Lorenz. Neue Nachrichten von dem berühmten spanischen Arzte Michael Serveto, der zu Geneve ist verbrannt worden, 1750
Subjects: Servetus, Michael
Notes: Originally published: Helmstedt: C.F. Weygand, 1746
Language: German
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Muller, Johannes
The Rockefeller University
Muller, Johannes. Elements of Physiology, 1843
Subjects: Physiology
Notes: The subjects of the books are: (1) General anatomy, (2) The circulating fluids, (3) Chemical changes in the organic fluids and organized textures, (4) Physiology of the nerves, (5) Of motion (voice and speech), (6) The senses, (7) The mind, (8) Of generation, and (9) Of development.
Language: English
Summary: The first textbook of physiology (first published in German in four parts from 1833 to 1840) and a key book in the emergence of the still-dominant monist-materialist model in medicine and psychology. Muller's work began a new era in the study of physiology: he pioneered the use of experimental methods in medicine and introduced the element of psychology into physiological investigatin. He has made the first attempts to explain physiological problems in terms of existing comparative physical and chemical knowledge. [Norman Catalog]
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Naude, Gabriel
The Rockefeller University
Naude, Gabriel.
Subjects: Magic – Early works to 1800
Notes: Originally published in 1625, with title: Apologie pour tous les grands personnages qui ont esté faussement soupçonnez de magie
Language: French
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Newton, Isaac
The Rockefeller University
Newton, Isaac. The mathematical principles of natural philosophy, [1729]
Subjects: Mechanics – Early works to 1800
Celestial mechanics – Early works to 1800
Notes: In two volumes. Vol. 2 in two parts, each with separate pagination and register, the second part being John Machin's 'The laws of the moon's motion according to gravity' with divisional title page
Language: English
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Newton, Isaac
The Rockefeller University
Newton, Isaac. Observations upon the prophecies of Daniel: and the Apocalypse of St. John. In two parts, 1733
Subjects: Bible – Revelation – Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Language: English
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Newton, Isaac
The Rockefeller University
Newton, Isaac. Opticks: or a treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections & Colours of Light, 1730
Subjects: Optics – Early works to 1800
Notes: The fourth edition, corrected
Language: English
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Newton, Isaac
The Rockefeller University
Newton, Isaac. Optice: sive de reflexionibus, refractionibus, inflexionibus & coloribus lucis libri tres. Authore Isaaco Newton, Equite Aurato. Latine reddidit Samuel Clarke, A.M. Reverendo admodum Patri ac Dno Joanni Moore Episcopo Norvicensi a Sacris Domesticis. Accedunt tractatus duo ejusdem Authoris de Speciebus & Magnitudine Figurarum Curvilinearum, Latine scripti, 1719
Subjects: Optics – Early works to 1800
Language: Latin
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Olearuis, Adam
The Rockefeller University
Olearuis, Adam. Relation du voyage d'Adam Olearius en Moscovie, Tartarie et Perse : augmentee en cette nouvelle edition de plus d'vn tiers, & particulierement d'vne seconde partie contenant le voyage de Iean Albert de Mandelslo aux Indes Orientales, 1666
Subjects: Voyages and travels – Early works to 1800
Russia – Description and travel – Early works to 1800
Iran – Description and travel – Early works to 1800
Notes: Vol. 2 has title: Suitte de la Relation du voyage en Moscovie, Tartarie, et Perse
Language: French
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Osler, William
The Rockefeller University
Osler, William. The Principles and practice of medicine: designed for the use of practitioners and students of medicine; thoroughly rev. by Thomas McCrae, 1892
Subjects: Medicine - Practice
Notes: First edition
Language: English
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Pallas, Peter Simon
The Rockefeller University
Pallas, Peter Simon. Travels through the southern provinces of the Russian Empire, in the years 1793 and 1794 / translated from the German of P.S. Pallas, 1802-1803
Subjects: Ukrain- Journey
Crimea - Description and travel
Notes: First edition. Includes index. Translated by Francis W. Blagdon. "In two volumes. With many coloured vignettes, plates and maps."
Language: English
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Paré, Ambroise
The Rockefeller University
Paré, Ambroise. The works of that famous chirurgeon Ambrose Parey, 1678
Subjects: Anatomy – Early works to 1800
Medicine – Early works to 1800
Surgery – Early works to 1800
Notes: Translated out of Latin and compared with the French, by Th. Johnson, together with three tractates concerning the veins, arteries, and nerves; exemplified with large anatomical figures, translated out of Adrianus Spigelius
Language: English
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Parson, James
The Rockefeller University
Parson, James. The Croonian lectures on muscular motion, 1745
Subjects: Muscles – Early works to 1800
Notes: First edition. Royal Society of London. Philosophical transactions. Supplements to the years 1744-1747
Language: English