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

Half-vellum over marbled boards, gilt-ornamented spine, marbled endpapers. Covers worn; uncut. ... more information

Half-calf and marbled boards, edges sprinkled; end-papers lightly spotted. Second English edition of the author’s first novel, the tale of a journey to Africa where our hero discovers a mythical country, and even marries an African princess. A significant portion focuses on Romer’s medical studies as well as his experiences as a ship doctor. An extremely popular work, it went through nine editions between 1849 and 1900. Mayo (1812-95) studied medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of ... more information

Numerous text tables and woodcuts. Half-calf and marbled boards, title in gilt on spine; a few sentences underlined and annotations in pencil or pen, minor corner restoration to a few leaves at the end. First edition of one of the most significant works relating to the motion of the earth and long-term climate change (Milankovitch cycles). Scarce, as the printing of the book was interrupted by the German bombing of Belgrade in 1941, and part of the book had to be finished a few weeks later on inferior pape... more information

With 3 plates. Red marbled boards. Presentation inscription to fly-leaf. First edition. A play set in Turkey, based upon the events surrounding the founding of the Turkish republic and the series of social, political, legal, economical and cultural changes that it subsequently went through. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, who the title character is based upon, was the leader of the Turkish national liberation struggle and the first president of the Turkish Republic. In the inscription, the author indicates that ... more information

Gray cloth; light soiling to boards and edges. First edition. Inscribed by the author.... more information

Black publisher’s cloth, title in blind to top cover. Fine in original dust-jacket. First issue of the first American edition. “Each chapter describes a different kind of relationship - - - the ‘knots’ of the title - - - bonds of love, dependency, uncertainty, jealousy.” The title not only describes the content of the poems, but also the sometimes unusual form of the printing on each page. Laing (b. 1927) studied medicine at Glasgow University, practicing as a physician at the Glas... more information

Approximately 300 double pages, including nearly 150 woodblock illustrations. Original wrappers with printed labels; interior with minor browning and occasional wormholes, otherwise a fine and complete copy preserved in a folding box. Probably one of the earliest illustrated accounts of Japanese medicine, compiled by the famous court physician Tamba Gentoku, also known as Taki Angen. The work is intended to promulgate medical knowledge among the common people, describing how to remedy maladies of various k... more information

Original printed boards, lightly browned, with fragments of the original fragile dust-jacket laid in. Ownership inscription to fly-leaf. First edition. One of Williams’ favorite works, he described the writing of it as follows: “I decided that I would write something every day, without missing one day, for a year. I’d write nothing planned but take up a pencil, put the paper before me, and write anything that came to me head . . . Not a word was to be changed. I didn’t change any, but I ... more information

With 2 color plates. Original printed wrappers; signature on front wrapper of J. M. Nielsen (possible the neurologist and author of Textbook of clinical neurology and others). Original offprint of Henchen’s acclaimed discovery of the cortical visual center, first given as a lecture at Norrk ping on August 30, 1887. His theories were met with some resistance, particularly from neuroscientists Victor Horsley, Charles Edward Beevor, and A. E. Sch fer, who also studied the cerebral cortex; however, he foun... 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