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

A collection of 14 original offprints by Eddington (1882-1944), the British astrophysicist who pioneered the study of stellar structure and discovered mass-luminosity relationship. Each has a separate title page, and all are in the original printed wrappers; all are in excellent condition. Other than the first paper listed, all offprints are from the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. From the library of the Carnegie Institute of Washington.1. "Gravitation and the principle o... more information

Contemporary tree calf, joints worn and cracked; waterstain to top corner of first quire. From the library of Nicholas I. Quackenbos with his small book label on the paste-down and his signature dated 1802 on title. Eighth Edinburgh edition.The Edinburgh Pharmacopoeia, compiled by the Royal College of Physicians, basically consists of a catalogue of drugs and preparations. It acted to standardize medical prescriptions and the substances used in treatment. The work first appeared in 1699; this is the eighth ... more information

With hand-coloured frontispiece and 36 aquatints, numerous wood-engraved text illustrations (all drawn and engraved by George Cruikshank and his brother, Isaac Robert), and 3 folding plates of music. Half-morocco over marbled boards, with elaborate gilt-ornamented spine and marbled paste-downs; interior rather foxed, heavier on music sheets and last leaves, other plates mostly clean. Without the half-title and the exceedingly rare unnumbered subscriber’s leaf (as usual) and advertisements. Bookplate of... more information

With photographic frontispiece plus 1 plate. Blue cloth, slightly worn at head and foot of spine. Inscription on fly-leaf, “To Max Rokofsky with compliments, Bernard Ehrenpreis.” First edition. Ehrenpreis (1898-1976) was an Argentinian radiologist originally from Eastern Europe. His poems are largely autobiographical in nature.... more information

Original printed wrappers on rippled paper, covers lightly toned around edges; interior clean with underlining by previous owner, Dr. Sten Lothigius of Stockholm An excellent copy. First separate appearance in print of Einstein's fundamental statement of the General theory of Relativity. Not an offprint from the Annalen der Physik as is often thought, but a completely new setting of type with significant and important additions and revisions, including an introduction published here for the first time ... more information

With an etching of Einstein dated 1920. Blue cloth, a bit worn, no dust wrapper; some minor browning on the preliminary leaves, otherwise a very good copy. First American edition of this book, a popular exposition written for the average reader. Einstein here explains his famous theory “which has so excited the scientific world. This volume is intended primarily for those readers who, though interested in the trend of modern theory, are not conversant with the mathematical analysis used in theoretical... more information

Original printed wrappers. An excellent copy, unopened. First edition of the author’s original offprint. Einstein here introduces an entirely new field of physics, general relativistic cosmology, and introduces a constant (termed the Cosmological Constant) to describe a universe that is ever expanding. Like other endeavors of his, Einstein later on rejected his work in this field, deeming it as the worst mistake of his life. However, with the results of the work primarily of Edwin Hubble and other disc... more information

Five with their original printed front wrappers. Bound together into contemporary half-cloth over marbled boards; numerous annotations in pen and pencil. Ownership inscription of L[ouis] Kollros (b. 1878), well-known Swiss mathematician, geometer, and biographer of Jakob Steiner; from the library of the Eidg. Technische Hochscule, Zürich, with their stamp on each title. Preserved in a folding clamshell box. FIRST EDITIONS of Nos. 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6, second edition of No. 4. This collection of original o... more information

Original printed wrappers on rippled paper. An uncut copy in a half-morocco solander box. First separate printing of Einstein's classic paper. Not an offprint from the Annalen der Physik as is often thought, but a completely new setting of type with significant and important additions and revisions, including an introduction published here for the first time which was not in the journal issue. Printing & the Mind of Man, 408; Weil, 80a... more information

original author’/s offprint, stapled. Offprint from Reviews of Modern Physics, Vol. 17, Nos. 2 & 3. First edition of this extremely rare offprint that was given to the authors for distribution to colleagues. Einstein and Straus here correct the means by which the gravitation field in the neighborhood of a single star is represented, based upon the knowledge that space is expanding. ... more information

Original printed wrappers. First edition of part two announcing the Einstein–Infeld–Hoffmann equations of motion. These are the differential equations of motion describing the approximate dynamics of a system of point-like masses due to their mutual gravitational interactions, including general relativistic effects. Jointly derived by Albert Einstein, Leopold Infeld and Banesh Hoffmann, the first part was published in the Annals of Mathematics, Vol. 39, No. 1, 1938.In the first paper the... more information

Uniformly bound in patterned cloth, title in gilt on spine. I: First edition of a lecture which Einstein delivered before the Society on January 16, 1911. Weil, 37.II: First edition of Einstein's lecture before the annual meeting of the Naturforschende Gesellschaft in Frauenfeld on September 9, 1913. This article is followed by Marcel Grossman's Mathematische Begriffsbildungen zur Gravitationstheorie (pp. 291-297). As set forth in Alicke, Cat. 278, 52a: "This paper must be seen against th... more information

Line-block and halftone text illustrations, one folding table, 3 halftone plates, 1 collotype plate. Contemporary cloth-backed marbled boards, title and date in gilt on spine; an excellent copy with the small stamp of the University of Basel on the fly-leaf, preserved in a clamshell box. First edition, journal issues, of three important early papers by Einstein. In the first paper, “Einstein suggested that light be considered a collection of independent particles of energy, which he called ‘light quanta... more information

Uniformly bound in half-red levant morocco and marbled boards by the Club Bindery. Included are:Daniel Deronda, 4 vols., 1876. Impressions of Theophrastus Such. 1879. The Spanish gypsy. 1868.The legend of Jubal and other poems. 1874. Middlemarch. 4 vols. 1872. Adam Bene. 3 vols. 1859. Felix Holt. 3 vols. 1866. Romola. 3 vols. 1863. Scenes of clerical life. 2 vols. 1858. The mill on the floss. 3 vols. 1860. Essays leaves from a note-book. 1884
... more information

Original blue cloth. With dustjacket (spine torn away but present). Interior fine. First edition, first state. Presentation inscription by the author on the title to Gene Andrewski dated 29 iv 58. ... more information

Half-calf over contemporary marbled boards, interior excellent. First edition. Elliotson was one of the first in England to perform surgical operations with the aid of hypnotism. In this, his first work on the use of hypnosis in surgery, he discusses many of his own successful cases, as well as commenting on accounts of others. However, the main inspiration for this book was the operation (and the controversy which arose from it) performed the previous year by W. Squire Ward, an narrative of which was publ... more information

Volume I with the dedication leaf to Rev. Henry Muhlenberg. With 12 plates (6 in each volume). Contemporary boards re-backed in modern calf; interior clean with light offsetting on a few plates. From the library of Lewis David de Schweinitz (1780-1834) with his small stamp on the front free endpapers. First edition of this valuable work on the botany of South Carolina, the first major botanical work to treat the American South. Elliott (1771-1830) was elected to the legislature of South Carolina and became... more information

Original printed wrappers. First edition of this sermon, a discourse on the choice of the nation through somewhat religious eyes.... more information

Publisher’s brown cloth. Inscribed “To Dr. Beddoe from the author, January 1904.” First edition of an interesting study of the various psychological, social and hereditary factors that may have an influence on genius. The study of this was one of Ellis’ pet projects. Dr. John Beddoe was a Crimean war surgeon and author of books on British race. English psychologist, author, and son of a sea-captain, Ellis (1859-1939) traveled extensively in Australia and South America before s... more information

Blue cloth; half-title torn and nearly detached, paper browned and brittle. Uncut and partially unopened. First published in 1912, Ellis’ formidable work on social reform was written over a twenty-five year period. Ellis was an ardent champion of equal rights for women, and there are three full chapters on the subject, as well as additional chapters on eugenics, religion, sexual hygiene, immorality and the law, the problem of international language, and socialism. “The study of social hygiene mean... more information