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

Complete with half-title and publisher's advertisements facing title. With 2 large folding plates, hand coloured. Partially unopened in contemporary pebbled cloth, gilt spine. The text is quite heavily browned due to the paper. First edition of the first monograph solely devoted to the newborn infant.(Ashwal, p. 654). Valleix (1807-1855) was one of the earliest to cultivate the speciality of diseases of children in France. He followed Billard and Berton at l'Hôpital des Enfants Trouvé. ... more information

Each work with separate title. With 14 folding plates (10 in the first volume, 4 in the second volume). Contemporary vellum in fine condition; from the library of Antonio Pacchioni (1665-1726), famous anatomist and physician. First editions of Vallisnieri's first two books. In the first work, the author describes the brain of an ox, which supposedly contained some curious stones, petrified during the lifetime of the animal. However, he denies that the mass found in the animal's head is actually its ... more information

With 3 engraved plates. Original printed wrappers, taped (front becoming detached). Unopened. Ownership inscription dated 1859 on cover. ... more information

Green cloth decorated and titled in black and gilt on front cover and spine, boards lightly soiled and rubbed; previous owner's signature on front paste-down. First edition of the author's work on the early days of Fort Snelling and her travels through the pioneer mid-west. Van Cleve (b. 1819) was the first white woman born in the Wisconsin territory, in the settlement of Prarie du Chien. As a child, she accompanied the troops who established Fort Snelling at the confluence of the Minnesota and Mis... more information

Half-morocco over marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. An excellent copy from the Mount Wilson Observatory, with a presentation bookplate to the Observatory by the Dutch astronomer Adriaan van Maanen (1884-1946), and with his signature dated 1906 on the half-title. First edition of this important work in thermodynamics and chemistry.... more information

Illustrated from photographs. Fold-out maps. Red pebbled cloth; boards scuffed and soiled, spine sunned, front free endpaper heavily chipped. The maps, however, are on very fine paper and in excellent condition. Ex-libris, with the usual markings. First edition. ... more information

With half-title and 1 engraved plate. Stiff blue marbled wrappers, with some light wear to spine. From the library of Jerry Stannard, with his book-label. First and only edition of this prize-winning essay, written in response to a contest put together by the Société Véterinare de Finistère, for the improvement and creation of grasslands. Vincent, a civil engineer and mayor of the small village of Landévennec, France, gives excellent suggestions for the use of the region&... more information

Original printed wrappers; an excellent copy. First edition of the famous eulogy by Virchow, summing up his great teacher's scientific abilities. Schönlein himself wrote very little; however, under his influence, Virchow became exposed to the experimental laboratory, and to physical diagnostic methods which greatly inspired him throughout life.... more information

Half-title and 144 text woodcuts. Contemporary half-cloth and marbled boards, minor wear on edges and corners; an excellent copy. PMM 307c. First edition of Virchow's acclaimed treatise on cellular pathology. His discovery that every morbid structure consisted of cells derived from pre-existing cells revolutionized the concept that any developed tissue can be traced back only to a cell. Using improved microscopic and biochemical techniques, Virchow succeeded in reducing pathological processes to alterat... more information

Complete as issued, with the Nouvelles lettres and the Metamorphoses. Interesting title device. French sprinkled calf, joints starting; some minor foxing and stains, a tear on page 3 affecting text. Early note on flyleaf, plus a contemporary signature of Eugène de Breza on title and a bookplate (Karl Spitzweg's The Bookworm) signed by Robert J. O'Toole. This edition of the author's works of prose is sometimes found bound with his Les Oeuvres. Our copy, which is complete, has the tables of... more information

With corrigenda laid in. Original cloth. An excellent copy. First edition of Von Neumann's major treatise written with Oskar Morgenstern in which he introduced a new branch of mathematics called "game theory." In order to accomplish the seemingly impossible task of constructing a mathematical model for games of chance which involve the free choices of players constantly reacting to each other, Von Neumann introduced the general concept of strategy. He then developed the model which made this ... more information