Titles starting with 1 from B & L Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts

Four mathematical pamphlets offered together, preserved in a folding clamshell case. 1. Formulae. (Group C.). [Oxford: c.1878]. Bifolium (222 x 142 mm). Cyclostyled. Without wrappers, as issued. Rare cyclostyled pamphlet, with Dodgson’s manuscript corrections in his characteristic purple ink. The formulas correspond to the topics in sections G and L of A Guide to the Mathematical Student in Reading, Reviewing, and Working Examples (1864). All of Dodgson’s cyclostyle pamphlets were produced ... more information

Seven original papers in their printed wrappers, from the library of Herbert McLean Evans, the discoverer of Vitamin E. 1. Offprint from: The Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Vol. XXXIII, No. 2, June 1928. 4to. pp. 237-58. With 6 figures and text tables; 2. Offprint from: Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Assoc., Vol. XX, No. 4, April 1931. 8vo. pp. 339-45. With 2 text figures; 3. Offprint from: Journal of American Pharmaceutical Assoc. Vol. XXII, No. 8, August, 1933. 8vo. pp. 716... more information

Three original offprints. Fro:m Jenaische Zeitschrift für Naturwissenschaft. Separately bound in recent boards. Presentation copies, signed by Haeckel to Dr. Bernhard Rawitz, anatomist from the University of Berlin. First editions. Following the publication of his Generalle Morphologie in 1866, Haeckel wrote a number of zoological monographs, containing reports of nearly four thousand new species of lower marine animals, most of which were gathered on the Challenger expedition. In addition to basic de... more information

1. 18-3/4 x 15". Shows Port Oxford or Ewing Harbor, Oregon Ter[ritory], Harbor of Mendocino City, California, Shelter Cove, California, Crescent City Harbor, California. Engraved by J.V.N. Throop and H.C. Evans. This black and white coastal survey provides notes on important characteristics of the area mapped, including triangulation between points. They illustrate areas that have likely undergone significant hanges due to modification and recessions of coastal lands, making them fascinating to anyone... more information

All in original wrappers. All presentation copies from the author. 1. First edition of the authors' original offprint. The authors here seek to lay the foundation for the laws regarding the number of polar bodies in animals, polar bodies being cell structures found inside an ovum and produced during oogenesis. Weismann addresses the importance of polar bodies for inheritance factors, crucial to his stance against Lamarckism. He reiterates his position that acquired characteristics are inheritable, a di... more information