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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Sammlung von Meinungen, die Wunder-Regen betreffend
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Sammlung von Meinungen grosser Gelehrten die Wunder-Regen betreffend bey Gelegenheit des in Ulm und anderwärts den 15. Nov. dieses laufenden Jahrs gefallenen Blut- und Korn-Regens herausgegeben, 1755
Language: German
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Sanctorius, Sanctorio, Timmius, Johannes
The Rockefeller University
Sanctorius, Sanctorio; Johannes Timmius. Joh. Timmii Transpiratio Sanctoriana, notis et animadversionibus perpetuis, aucta [et] illustrata, oder des berühmten Medici Sanctorii à Sanctorio Tractat von der unempfindlichen Ausdünstung: aus dem Lateinischen ins Teutsche übersetzet und durchgehends mit Anmerckungen vermehret und erläutert, 1736
Subjects: Medicine – Early works to 1800
Language: German
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Schwann von, Theodor
The Rockefeller University
Schwann von, Theodor.
Subjects: Cells
Histology
Cytology
Language: German
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Sharp, Samuel
The Rockefeller University
Sharp, Samuel. Letters from Italy, describing the customs and manners of that country in the years 1765, and 1766. To which is annexed, an admonition to gentlemen who pass the Alps, in their tour through Italy, 1766
Subject: Italy - Social life and customs
Travel, Italy
Language: English
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Shaw, Peter
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Shaw, Peter. Chemical Lectures publickly read at London in the years 1731, and 1732; and since at Scarborough, in 1733, for the improvement of arts, trades, and natural philosophy, [1734]
Notes: First edition
Language: English
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Sherwin, Henry
The Rockefeller University
Sherwin, Henry. Mathematical tables contrived after a most comprehensive method: viz, a table of logarithms, from 1 to 101000. To which is added (upon the same page) the differences and proportional parts, whereby the logarithm of any number under 10,000,000 may be easily found. Tables of natural sines, tangents, and secants ... Tables of natural versed sines ... With their construction and use. By Mr. Briggs, Dr. Wallis, Mr. Halley [and] Mr. Abr. Sharp. The whole being more correct and compleat than any tables extant, 1726
Subjects: Mathematics - Tables
Language: English
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Silliman, Benjamin
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Silliman, Benjamin. A journal of travels in England, Holland, and Scotland, and of two passages over the Atlantic, in the years 1805 and 1806
Subjects: Great Britain -- Description and travel.
Netherlands -- Description and travel
Notes: Second edition. In three volumes
Language: English
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Sprat, Thomas
The Rockefeller University
Sprat, Thomas. The History of the Royal Society of London for the improving of natural knowledge, 1722
Subjects: Royal society
Notes: The third edition, corrected. [With verses addressed to the Society, by A. Cowley]
Language: English
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Sprat, Thomas
The Rockefeller University
Sprat, Thomas. The history of the Royal Society of London for the improving of natural knowledge, 1667
Subjects: Royal society
Notes: First edition
Language: English
Format: Books
Summary: Thomas Sprat (1635-1713) was bishop of Rochester, Dean of Westminster, and a leading Tory and High-Churchman. He was also wit and man of letters with an interest in natural science, and (in addition to being a member himself) was also friends with many of the founding members of the Royal Society, including Christopher Wren and Ralph Bathurst. He was thus well-placed to write the early history of the oldest scientific society in the British Isles and one of the oldest in Europe-therein especially defending the Society against the attacks of those philosophers who questioned the value of experimental science. The work is divided into three parts. The first section is a historical overview of natural philosophy that Spratt orders under three main schools: the scholastics or Aristotelians, those who renounced the authority of Aristotle and the 'Modern Experimenters'. The second group he criticized on the grounds that it is not enough, that the Tyrant is changed: but the Tyranny itself must be wholly taken away. This, in his view, was the function of the Royal Society, inspired by the works of Francis Bacon, and the second part of the book is devoted to outlining the Society's aims and methods. This includes a list of the scientific instruments invented by its members (pp.246-51) and some examples of their writings on diverse subjects, including the making of dye and the study of oysters. Whereas this second part was intended to counter the charges of those who saw the Society's output as too limited, the third part addressed the concerns of those who thought that its work undermined the fabric of society: Spratt argues that the experimental method 'cannot injure the Virtue, or Wisdom of Men’s Minds.
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Spurzheim, J. G.
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Spurzheim, J. G. (Johann Gaspar). Phrenology, in Connexion with the Study of Physiognomy: Illustration of Characters, 1833
Subjects: Phrenology
Notes: First American edition
Language: English
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Sterne, Laurence
The Rockefeller University
Sterne, Laurence. The works of Laurence Sterne. In eight volumes complete. Containing: I Tristram Shandy, and the political romance. II sentimental journey, with the continuation. III the Koran… IV letters ... V sermons. With an account of the life and writings of the author, 1790
Subjects: Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768
Language: English
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Swinton, Andrew
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Swinton, Andrew. Travels into Norway, Denmark, and Russia, in the years 1788, 1789, 1790, and 1791
Subjects: Europe, Northern -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800.
Travel.
Northern Europe.
Language: English
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Sydenham, George Francis
The Rockefeller University
Sydenham, George Francis. The history of the Sydenham family, 1928
Subjects: Sydenham family
Notes: Three hundred copies printed of which this is no. 9
Language: English
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Sydenham, Thomas
The Rockefeller University
Sydenham, Thomas. Opera universa, 1741
Subjects: Medicine – Early works to 1800
Language: English
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Sydenham, Thomas
The Rockefeller University
Sydenham, Thomas. Opera medica, 1723
Subjects: Medicine – Early works to 1800
Notes: 2 volumes
Language: Latin
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The works of William Cullen, M.D
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The works of William Cullen, M.D.: containing his physiology, nosology, and first lines of the practice of physic: with numerous extracts from his manuscript papers, and from his treatise of the materia medica / edited by John Thomson, 1827
Subjects: William Cullen (1710-1790)
Medicine, Physiology
Notes: In two volumes
Language: English
Summary: John Thomson, the biographer of the Scottish physician and chemist William Cullen (1710-1790), published an edited collection of Cullen's works in two volumes (1827). It contains most of Cullen's published works, supplemented with a great number of extracts from Cullen's own hand (lecture notes, unpublished essays, etc).
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Traitté de l'angejologie, ou Discours des vaisseaux
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Traitté de l'angejologie, ou Discours des vaisseaux by Par J.B. D. L. G.
Language: Latin
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Virchow, Rudolf
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Virchow, Rudolf. Die Cellularpathologie in ihrer Begründung auf physiologische und pathologische Gewebelehre: Zwanzig Vorlesungen, 1858
Subjects: Pathology, Cellular
Notes: Advertisements: p. [1]-27, [1], and on back cover
Language: German
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Virchow, Rudolf
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Virchow, Rudolf. Gesammelte Abhandlungen zur wissenschaftlichen Medicin, 1856
Subjects: Medicine
Language: German
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Vopiscus Fortunatus Plempius
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Vopiscus Fortunatus Plempius. Vopiscus Fortunatus Plempius ... de fundamentis medicinuæ libri sex, acribologia scholastica accurati, 1644
Subjects:Medicine - Early works to 1800
Language: Latin