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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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  • Newton, Isaac by The Rockefeller University

    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

    Full text

    Subjects: Optics – Early works to 1800

    Language: Latin


  • Newton, Isaac by The Rockefeller University

    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

  • Olearuis, Adam by The Rockefeller University

    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

    Full text

    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

  • Osler, William by The Rockefeller University

    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

    Full text

    Subjects: Medicine - Practice

    Notes: First edition

    Language: English

  • Pallas, Peter Simon by The Rockefeller University

    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

    Full text, vol.2

    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

  • Paré, Ambroise by The Rockefeller University

    Paré, Ambroise

    The Rockefeller University

    Paré, Ambroise. The works of that famous chirurgeon Ambrose Parey, 1678

    Full text

    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


  • Parson, James by The Rockefeller University

    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


  • Pascal, Blaise by The Rockefeller University

    Pascal, Blaise

    The Rockefeller University

    Pascal, Blaise. Traité de l'equilibre des liqueurs, et de la pesanteur de la masse de l'air, 1663

    Full text

    Subjects: Hydrostatics

    Atmospheric pressure

    Language: French

    Format: Book

    Summary: Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) was among the greatest scientist and philosophers of his age. A mathematical prodigy as a child, he completed an original treatise on conic sections at the age of sixteen. He studied infinitesimal calculus; solved problems of general quadrature of the cycloid; contributed to the development of differential calculus; originated, with Fermat, the mathematical theory of probability. He also invented a mechanical calculator, the syringe, and the hydraulic press. He wrote treatises on the equilibrium of liquid solutions, on the weight and density of air, and on the arithmetic triangle

  • Pasteur, Louis by The Rockefeller University

    Pasteur, Louis

    The Rockefeller University

    Pasteur, Louis. Études sur la bière: ses maladies, causes qui les provoquent, procédé pour la rendre inaltérable; avec une théorie nouvelle de la fermentation, 1876

    Full text

    Subjects: Fermentation

    Beer

    Notes: Publisher’s advertisements on the final 4 unnumbered pages

    Language: French

  • Pasteur, Louis by The Rockefeller University

    Pasteur, Louis

    The Rockefeller University

    Pasteur, Louis. Études sur le vin: ses maladies, causes qui les provoquent, procédés nouveaux pour le conserver et pour le vieillir, 1866

    Full text

    Subjects: Wine - Microbiology

    Notes: First edition

    Language: French


  • Pasteur, Louis by The Rockefeller University

    Pasteur, Louis

    The Rockefeller University

    Pasteur, Louis. Examen critique d'un écrit posthume de Claude Bernard sur la fermentation, 1879

    Full text

    Subjects: Bernard, Claude – 1813-1878

    Fermentation

    Notes: Includes bibliographical references

    Language: French

  • Pavlov, Ivan Petrovich by The Rockefeller University

    Pavlov, Ivan Petrovich

    The Rockefeller University

    Pavlov, Ivan Petrovich. Die Arbeit der Verdauungsdrüsen Vorlesungen, 1898

    Full text

    Subjects: Digestion

    Notes: For this work, Pavlov received the Nobel Prize in 1904

    Language: German

  • Pavlov, Ivan Petrovich by The Rockefeller University

    Pavlov, Ivan Petrovich

    The Rockefeller University

    Pavlov, Ivan Petrovich. The work of digestive glands, 1902

    Full text

    Subjects: Digestion

    Notes: First English translation by W. H. Thompson

    Language: English

  • Pechey, John by The Rockefeller University

    Pechey, John

    The Rockefeller University

    Pechey, John; Sydenham, Thomas. The whole works of that excellent practical physician, Dr. Thomas Sydenham: wherein not only the history and cures of acute diseases are treated of, after a new and accurate method: but also the shortest and safest way of curing most chronical diseases, 1740

    Full text

    Subjects: Medicine - Early works to 1800

    Epidemics - History

    Notes: The 11. edition. corrected from the Original Latin

    Language: English

  • Petit-Radel, Philippe by The Rockefeller University

    Petit-Radel, Philippe

    The Rockefeller University

    Petit-Radel, Philippe. Institutions de médecine, ou, Exposé sur la théorie et la pratique de cette science d'après les auteurs anciens et modernes, ouvrage didactique, contenant les connaissances générales, nécessaires à ceux qui se destinent à exercer l'art de guérir par Ph. Petit-Radel, Docteur-Régent et Professeur de la ci-devant Faculté de Médecine de Paris, et actuellement Professeur à l'Ecole de Médecine de la même ville, [1798]

    Subjects: Medicine – Early works to 1800

    Notes: In two volumes

    Language: French

  • Pinel, Philippe by The Rockefeller University

    Pinel, Philippe

    The Rockefeller University

    Pinel, Philippe. Nosographie philosophique, ou, La méthode de l'analyse appliquée à la médecine, 1802-1803

    Full text

    Subjects: Nosology

    Medicine

    Notes: In three volumes

    Language: French

  • Polybius by The Rockefeller University

    Polybius

    The Rockefeller University

    Polybius. Histoire de Polybe, 1753

    Subjects: History, Ancient.

    Rome -- History -- Republic, 510-30 B.C.

    Greece -- History.

    Notes: 7 volumes

    Language: French


  • Pomet, Pierre by The Rockefeller University

    Pomet, Pierre

    The Rockefeller University

    Pomet, Pierre. Histoire générale des drogues, simples et composées, renfermant dans les trois classes des végétaux, des animaux & des minéraux tout ce qui est l'objet de la physique, de la chimie, de la pharmacie, & des arts les plus utiles à la société des hommes, 1735

    Full text

    Subjects: Materia medica – Early works to 1800

    Drugs

    Notes: In two volumes

    Language: French

    Format: Book

    Summary: Pierre Pomet (1658-1699) was a French pharmacologist, chemist, and botanist who became chief supplier of drugs to Louis XIV. After his apprenticeship, he traveled widely in Europe collecting botanical, mineral and medicinal samples and on his return opened a shop selling drugs. He was asked to give lectures at the Jardin des Plantes on the preparation of his products and he issued regular catalogs of them. This work was translated into English and German. Part I deals with botanical medicine and most of the illustrations are of plants but there are some interesting and unusual plates: curing tobacco, manufacturing sugar, processing indigo. Part II is on animals and their uses in medicine with interesting plates of unicorns, whales, rhinoceros and elephant, silk manufacture, bee-keeping, packing tuna into barrels. Part II opens with a long piece on the Egyptians and in particular on Mummies with an interesting plate. Part III is on fossils and minerals including gold, silver, iron, mercury, tin, copper, vitriol, lead, antimony, arsenic, sulfur and precious stones.


  • Priestley, Joseph by The Rockefeller University

    Priestley, Joseph

    The Rockefeller University

    Priestley, Joseph. Disquisitions relating to matter and spirit. To which is added, the history of the philosophical doctrine concerning the origin of the soul, and the nature of matter; with its influence on Christianity, especially with respect to the doctrine of the pre-existence of Christ, 1777

    Full text

    Language: English

  • Priestley, Joseph by The Rockefeller University

    Priestley, Joseph

    The Rockefeller University

    Priestley, Joseph. Lectures on history, and general policy: To which is prefixed, an essay on a course of liberal education for civil and active life, 1791

    Full text

    Subjects: World history – Early works to 1800

    Notes: With an index

    Language: English

 

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