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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Walpole, Horace
The Rockefeller University
Walpole, Horace.
Subjects: Great Britain – History – George II, 1727-1760
Notes: In two volumes. Reprinted without additions by Colburn, London, 1846, in 3 v.
Language: English
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Webster, Noah
The Rockefeller University
Webster, Noah. A brief history of epidemic and pestilential diseases, with the principal phenomena of the physical world which precede and accompany them and observations deduced from the facts stated, 1799
Subjects: Epidemics – History
Epidemics
Notes: First edition in two volumes
Language: English
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Wotton, William
The Rockefeller University
Wotton, William. Reflections upon ancient and modern learning, 1697
Subjects: Learning and scholarship
Philosophy - History
Notes: 2d. edition with large additions
Language: English
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Xenophon
The Rockefeller University
Xenophon. Cyrupaedia: the institution and life of Cyrus, the first of that name, king of Persians: eight bookes, treating of noble education, of princely exercises, military discipline, vvarlike stratagems, preparations and expeditions, 1632
Subjects: Cyrus – the Great, King of Persia – 530 B.C. or 529 B. C.
Iran – History – To 640
Notes: Translated out of Greek into English, and conferred with the Latine and French translations by Philemon Holland
Language: English