Authors starting with C from B & L Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts

With half-titles. Quarter morocco-backed marbled boards, gilt spine; sporadic foxing, minor worming and chipping to spine. Contemporary hand-written note tipped in before title of Volume I, pencil annotations on first leaves of each volume and signature of F. Bautros on titles. Cabanis's fundamental work of social ecology articulating the relationship between organisms and their environment, substantially revised and augmented for the first time. This fourth edition is the most complete of the editions ... more information

Original printed wrappers, bound in half-morocco and marbled boards. Second edition. In the previous edition (1909), Witkowski’s name appeared first on the title page, with the slightly different title Gayetez d’Esculape. The present work includes chapters on the wit of famous sick people, the wit of medical celebrities, and wit in literature and history. Cabanès (1862-1928) was a doctor, historian and author of numerous works of fiction and history. Witkowski (1844-1923), a surg... more information

Disbound. First edition. Caldwell (1772-1853) received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania. In 1819, he helped found the Medical Department at Transylvania University in Lexington; later he left for Louisville to became the first professor of the Louisville Medical Institute. Caldwell's research included work on "pestilential" diseases, blood and the circulatory system, and, later in life, physical education and phrenology. Cordasco, 30-0153.... more information

Each volume with engraved vignette titles. Contemporary calf, elaborate gilt spine; an extremely fine set. First edition of this celebrated work of surgery, considered by Hirsch as the outstanding medical textbook in Europe and the most comprehensive book on operative surgery of its time. This work is encyclopedic in scope and covers virtually every subject and procedure known, including cancers of the breast and testicles, the use of electricity in surgery, the origins and treatments of pain, and of speci... more information

Original wrappers. Uncut and unopened. First edition. Dedicated to Dr. William Punell of Belfield, Virginia, and Benjamin Smith Barton. ... more information

Disbound. More campaign literature, plus a short commemoration of the landing of the Pilgrims, as celebrated by the New England Society of the city of New York.... more information

Original printed wrappers, minor small water-stain to bottom wrapper. Second impression of “an elaboration of a clinical lecture given at Guy’s Hospital . . . and of a paper read to the Abernethian Society, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital.” Campbell here lauds Arthur Conan Doyle's (and consequently Dr. Watson's) impressive knowledge of medicine. In the book he discusses Dr. Watson’s knowledge of medicine, chemistry, anatomical and pharmacological references, and Watson’s med... more information

Original blue printed wrappers bound into cloth. First edition of this important title. "Psycho-therapy was put upon a working basis in this book on the moral treatment of psycho-neuroses." ... more information

Title with engraved vignette. Complete with mounted errata slip. Contemporary blue marbled wrappers, frayed and chipped around the edges; interior with scattered foxing. An uncut copy from the library of Arnold Carl Klebs (1870-1943), the eminent Swiss scholar and collector, with his small stamp on the final printed leaf. First edition of Candolle's inspiring speech, given to the graduating class of the University of Geneva. Candolle aims to instill a sense of pride in his young listeners by tracin... more information

With 8 full-page illustrations containing numerous figures. Contemporary calf; overall an excellent copy with the bookplate of Thomas Carnegy of Craigo, Angus, Scotland, on front paste-down. First edition in English. The original was published the prior year. The first three parts (Nomenclature, Theory of Classification, Descriptive Botany) are extracted from De Candolle's Théorie élémentaire de la Botanique. The remaining part, the structure and nature of plants, is by Sprengel, wh... more information

With frontispiece and 3 plates. Publisher's two-toned cloth with gilt armorial decoration to front cover. With author’s inscription, as well as numerous text corrections which look to be in the same hand. First edition. The author (1815-1906) served on Gen. Wool's staff. Interesting detail about the war on the western front. ... more information

Linen-backed boards, original pictorial dust jacket in fine condition. First edition of Cantor’s first novel and second book, based upon the life of Ernesto Che Guevara (1928-67), who graduated from the University of Buenos Aires medical school in 1953. Cantor attended Harvard College, and completed his Ph.D at the University of California at Santa Cruz. His other works include the novels Krazy Kat, and Great Neck, as well as two books of essays, The Space between: Literature and politics and On givi... more information

Contemporary calf, rebacked with spine label; interior browned. From the library of Fred M. Harris, with his stamp on title. Fourth edition of Carey's eyewitness account of the great yellow fever epidemic which enveloped the city of Philadelphia in 1793. "In this little book, which passed through four editions in a few months, Carey left a graphic description of the great yellow fever epidemic in 1793. He gave a good clinical description of the disease, mentioning the efficacy and failure of many f... more information

Top wrapper (original) only, though detached; some spotting. Uncut, some unopened. Signature of Robert Bolling on title. Fourth edition of Carey's eyewitness account of the great yellow fever epidemic which enveloped the city of Philadelphia in 1793. "In this little book, which passed through four editions in a few months, Carey left a graphic description of the great yellow fever epidemic in 1793. He gave a good clinical description of the disease, mentioning the efficacy and failure of many form... more information

Illustrated. Maroon leather, title in gilt on cover and spine; lightly worn. In original dust jacket (clipped). Number 71 of the deluxe edition signed by the author. The autobiography of the self-proclaimed last of the lone train robbers.... more information

Original red publisher's cloth paneled in blind, gilt title on upper cover, slight soiling. An excellent presentation copy inscribed in purple ink, "Mrs. Neate from the Author." Preserved in a modern burgundy cloth box with red morocco sides, gilt lettered. First edition, first issue of this most popular word puzzle, invented by Carroll, that became a parlor craze in its time. "The rules of the puzzle are simple enough. Two words are proposed, of the same length; and the Puzzle consists i... more information

With half-title, publisher's advertisements and numerous text diagrams. Complete with printed envelope containing the card diagram and all of the 9 counters. Original red cloth, gilt lettering; an especially clean copy preserved in a red morocco-backed cloth case with a small book-label on the front paste-down. First edition, with both the title page and the envelope dated 1886. According to Williams, no more than fifty copies were printed: "This is a very rare Carroll item, and was unknown to me... more information

With 6 folding copperplates by Cassebohm's student Petche; engraved initials, head and tail pieces. Original wrappers lightly frayed. An uncut copy. First editions of an important work on the anatomy and physiology of the ear. The first four tracts discuss the temporal bone, the external ear, the tympanic cavity, and the contents of the tympanic cavity. The fifth describes the labyrinth and the sixth deals with the monstrous formation of an ear found in a human fetus. ... more information

Elaborately engraved title, 2 engraved portraits, and 33 engraved anatomical plates. Our copy is one of a few printed with a blank verso M3, a printer's error, considered by researchers to be an earlier issue. It is also bound in the original boards, and due to a probable binder's error, it was bound without 4 congruent text leaves (Q2-3 and B2-3), which are supplied in facsimile. A few insignificant spots, but overall a handsome and elegant copy. The words "Enatomia placem" (?) in contemp... more information

With 3 full-page plates of Cavendish's manuscript facsimiles, 8 other facsimilies of figures from Cavendish, numerous text diagrams. Original maroon cloth, head and tail of spine rubbed, otherwise a fine, uncut copy with the bookplate of B. V. M. Winton, and withdrawn stamp from New College Library, Oxford. First edition of Cavendish's experiments in electrical science and fluid mechanics. Although these researches were conducted between 1771 and 1781, the results were not published until Maxwell pr... more information