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

Text illustrations. Original printed wrappers (front wrapper reinforced) bound in modern cloth. Embossed stamp of the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences on the front wrapper. First edition of the author's rare offprint of a talk read before the Akademie der Wissenschaften, and published in the Zeitschrift für Luftschiffahrt the following year, 1896. This paper presents Obermayer's vital research on the principles of wind movement over wing surfaces. It contributed to the experimentation whi... more information

Title in red and black. Old calf-backed marbled boards, spine worn; paste-downs and blanks browned on edges, interior very good. First edition of the d'Argens translation of the bilingual works of the Pythagorean philosopher, Ocellus Lucanus (fifth century). This is the only one of his presumed works extant, generally known as On the nature of the Universe. He maintains that the human race, with all its institutions (the family, marriage, etc.), must be eternal. In addition, he advocates an ascetic mode... more information

Original cloth binding, somewhat worn and soiled; interior is clean with a few penciled notes on verso of first blank endpaper, and some underling in text. From the library of Th[orvald] Bull with his bookplate, and a presentation to Georg Bull from Ørsted. First edition, extremely rare, of the author's comprehensive text of physical mechanics. This book was translated into German in 1851, and ultimately became one of the Landmarks of Science series. Ørsted (1777-1851) is remembered for h... more information

Disbound. Austin, 1432. First edition of this interesting American medical imprint which provides an insight into empirical results of inoculation. In addition to the letters dealing with the disease, other material includes, among other items, accounts of measles in Philadelphia, the effects of arsenic in intermittents, a refutation of the notion of the existence of a pestilential constitution of the atmosphere, and treatment of other communicable diseases and public health issues. ... more information

including half-title and 43 pages publisher’s advertisements. With frontispiece and 20 plates. Original publisher’s cloth, top edges uncut. Second edition. Thompson (1820-1904) was an English surgeon and professor at the Royal College of Physicians, specializing in surgery of the genito-urinary tract and of the bladder. The plates were all executed by the author, the last being a self-portrait. BMC, XVIII, 347; Osler, 5515... more information

With 9 engraved plates (8 folding). Cloth-backed boards, spine label. Printed in English and French. Uncut. First edition of Olivier's masterful descriptions of various fencing techniques, illustrated with elegant engravings. It is a thorough work "containing a simplified system shorn of all unnecessary and obsolete details." Olivier kept a flourishing school in St. Dunstan's Court, Fleet Street, and was perhaps, after Angelo, the most popular master of the small sword in London. ... more information

First edition. Sixteen prominent academic physicians comment on various sections of the 7th edition of Osler's textbook. The contributors include Robert Austrian, William Bean, William Castle, William Dock, Howard Means, Maurice Strauss, George Thorn, Thomas Turner, Theodore Woodward, and James Wyngaarden, among others. ... more information

Title in red and black, frontispiece portrait and 16 plates. Original cloth-backed boards; covers very lightly soiled, still an excellent copy. First edition in book form, originally issued as an address read before the Bibliographical Society in 1914 and printed two years later in the Transactions of the Bibliographical Society. It is here first edited with a preface by A.W. Pollard, and with bibliographical descriptions by V. Scholderer. The work describes 214 of the earliest printed medical books.... more information

(1). Annotated answers to the 1902 examination of Osler's Principles. . . . Annals of Internal Medicine, September 1973, pp. 460-72; (2). JAMA. William Osler commemorative issue. Vol. 210, No. 12, December 22, 1969. pp. 2213-69. Wrappers; (3). Sir William Osler Memorial Number, Archives of Internal Medicine, Vol. 84, no. 1. Chicago: American Medical Association, July 1949. 198 pp. Original printed wrappers; (4). KEYS. Sir William Osler and the medical library. Offprint. January and April. pp. 24-148. ... more information

Original cloth. ... more information

Inscribed by Bill Bean, 1953; pictorial dustjacket, gray cloth (edges scuffed). ... more information

With one portrait and 1 photographic plate. Red cloth, frontispiece waterstained, a few internal leaves roughly opened. Second edition.... more information

Illustrated. Blue cloth. First edition, scarce.... more information

With portrait laid in. Marbled boards, glassine (torn). First edition 1913.... more information

Marbled boards, edges worn. First edition... more information

With portrait of Osler. Cloth-backed gilt decorated boards. First American edition.Osler's last public address.... more information

With 4 photographic plates. Blue wrappers, dustjacket. ... more information

Blue boards, dustjacket intact. Limited to 275 copies. ... more information

Red cloth. No. 27 of 500; initialed by Nation (editor).... more information

Marbled boards, hinges cracked and separated at back. With portrait on verso of title laid in.... more information