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

1. From: The Journal of Biological Chemistry, Vol. XXIX, No. 1. Berkeley & Baltimore: The Waverly Press, Feb., 1917. 141 pages; 2. From: The Anatomical Record, Vol. 12, No. 2, University of California. Baltimore, MD: The Waverly Press, March 20, 1917, pp. 287-92; 3. From: The American Journal of Physiology, Vol. XLVI, No. 4, University of California. Baltimore, MD: The Waverly Press, July, 1918, pp. 483-86; 4. From: The American Journal of Anatomy, Vol. 26, No. 1, University of California, Sept., 191... more information

Gay, Vol. II includes the advertisement leaf following the title page and publisher's advertisement on verso of final text leaf for an edition of Barlow's Aesop and Stockdale fables of Aesop (no dates noted). Engraved title page in each volume, plus 112 plates in the Aesop and 70 plates in Gay, 12 by William Blake; plates with blank leaves as guards. A large paper copy bound in polished mottled calf with matching flyleaves, gilt-ruled around the edges and inner dentelles, gilt decorated spine. All ... more information

Text in double columns within decorated woodcut borders. Page 1 is a front wrapper; bound into recent marbled boards; some browning and marginal staining. One of the earliest books on the construction and operation of a textile machine that fashioned hosiery. This invention, introduced in the mid-eighteenth century, contains the oldest known drawing of a hosiery-knitting device. The text, which describes all the working parts of the machine and how to assemble it, also gives detailed instruction on its oper... more information

Each volume with half-title and engraved vignette title. Volume I with frontispiece portrait and large folding colour map. Half-calf and marbled boards with morocco spine labels, spines and corners lightly rubbed.  First edition of this set, which contains much of Sir Walter Scott's correspondence with his family and friends.... more information

Uncut in the original green publisher’s cloth, small tear in cloth to lower cover. Later edition of this novel set in pre-Civil War Pennsylvania. BAL, 6, 14135; BMC, XVII, 521 (both first ed.)... more information

With 2 photographic portraits from daguerrotype by Claudet. Original cloth. First edition of an important account of one of the most brilliant lives of the era. Tyndall was one of Faraday's closest associates, and in this work, he reveals a compelling image of Faraday as a scientist, inventor, discoverer, and friend.... more information

With frontispieces and text illustrations; a mint set in the original dust jackets. First edition of the scientific diaries of one of the greatest experimental philosophers of all time. These volumes, printed from the manuscripts now held by the Royal Institution of Great Britain, contain Faraday’s full accurate descriptions of his every experiment, each written on the day it was made and continued through to his final fundamental conclusions along with outlines of future research. Faraday (1791-1867)... more information

Blue marbled boards; presentation inscription to fly-leaf. First edition of this play in three acts, a modern-day Faustian tale. The inscription indicates that the book was written while the author was practicing medicine in England. Lium served as Medical Director of the American Hospital of Istanbul.... 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

With 12 plates and numerous text illustrations. Uncut in the original front wrapper, chipped, wrapper and first few leaves nearly detached; preliminary leaves somewhat spotted. First edition of the author's most important book. The work is divided into two parts, the first on the history, origin and theories of microscopic beings and their division into air, water and soil. The second section is devoted to aerobic and anaerobic bacteria, fermentation, bacterial reproduction and the study of enzymes. Duc... more information

With 4 large folding plates. Half-morocco over pebbled cloth, joints and corners worn, marbled endpapers. From the library of George E. Hale with his signature dated New York, April, 1915, and his notation that this book was a gift from Prof. Wills (?). First edition. This was the first publication of the Ernest Kempton Adams Fund for Physical Research at Columbia University. Bjerknes (1862-1951), Norwegian physicist and pioneer in modern meteorology, first worked in Bonn as Hertz' assistant on electric... more information

Original printed wrappers. First edition, rare. In 1858, Nathan S. Davis, founder of the American Medical Association, left Rush Medical College to form a new medical school, the Medical Department of Lind University, also in Chicago. In 1862 the medical school became the Chicago Medical College, and in 1892 it became the Northwestern University Medical School.... more information

Complete with half-titles, 18 folding plates, errata and all blank leaves. Uniformly bound in contemporary calf-backed marbled boards. An exceptionally fine and clean set. First and only edition of Avogadro’s major work, and the first systematic compendium of theoretical physics to be published in Italy. This monumental work was expanded from the author’s memoir, which appeared in the Journal de physique (1811). The famous hypothesis which bears his name provided the key to distinguishing between atoms... more information

With 1 folding engraved plate and numerous text illustrations. Original orange printed wrappers, spine slightly torn; interior occasional spotting, still a very good copy preserved in a folding clamshell box. First edition. Sechenov's theory of cerebral behaviour mechanisms was the basis for the development of neurophysiology and objective psychology in Russia, as well as the investigations of Pavlov and Bekhterev. This work contains Sechenov's discoveries that higher brain function is a material re... more information

With dedication leaf and publisher's catalogue. Contemporary calf, rebacked with original backstrip laid down, marbled edges. A fine copy from the library of the Earl of Ilchester, with his bookplate and Jerry Stannard's label. A new edition of Tusser's popular work on home economics; a poem in rhyming couplets recording the country year, first published in 1557. This edition contains "notes, georgical (sic), illustrative, and explanatory, a glossary and other improvements" by William... more information

Contemporary tree calf with patterned flyleaves, original catches and clasps present; backstrip lightly cracked, with remnants of gilt. Early ownership inscription on first title (mounted), additional ownership inscriptions (Nielson and Andersen plus 2 others) on flyleaf, annotations throughout. First edition of the first illustrated botanical work to appear in Denmark. The first section, an early pharmacological herbal, was published in Copenhagen in 1648; the second, which contains the four woodcut titl... more information

With the large folding map of Lapland, hand-coloured in outline, l folding engraved table, and 30 engraved plates. Contemporary half-calf over marbled boards, rebacked; interior lightly browned. With a large bookplate from the Academiae Harvardianae donation fund of 1842 (received 1849 and withdrawn). First edition of the author's main work in the field of plant geography, the results of his four excursions to Lapland and northern Norway. The book includes descriptions of well over a thousand plants w... more information

Lovely engraved title. Stiff vellum over boards, overlapping fore-edges, obliterated label on spine with an unknown convent. Binder's waste from Desiderius Erasmus' Querela pacis, section 526. Text browned throughout, fore-edges of first leaves folded and tightly creased, leaf torn, slightly affecting text. Ex Haereditate Rosenmarckeriana and a Fr. Amulius 1839 with a calligraphic F.A. on title. The first edition of this collection of proverbs grew from 12,605 in 1630 to 22,922 in the present and l... more information

Blue publisher's cloth. An excellent copy. First American edition from the original London edition of 1884 which was published in two volumes. This edition has been enlarged with additions and corrections. The focus is on flower lore past and present. Although the author generally gives some idea of sources, it should be used with care because it includes modern meanings. Friend generally treats herbs, flowers, and some trees.... more information

Black publisher’s cloth in original dust-jacket. Aside from some small spots to back of dust-jacket, a bright, clean copy. First edition of this posthumously printed work. Contains many of his more famous tales, such as The thing in the cellar and The dead woman, as well as many previously uncollected works. ... more information