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

With 5 folding engraved plates. Contemporary half-calf over marbled boards, rebacked, with original spine laid down; text with only sporadic browning. From the library of Sir J.C. Beattie (1866-1946), physicist, with his signature, and presentation bookplate of the University of Cape Town noting the 1931 donation from Beattie. First edition of the author's landmark treatise on terrestrial magnetism. Hansteen was the foremost proponent of the nineteenth-century theory that Earth has two magnetic axes (or... more information

With frontispiece and 28 plates. Original green cloth, decorated in blind and gilt, minor wear at head and foot of spine; uncut. First edition, one of 750 copies. “The following compilation aims to present the ‘Boston of Holmes,’ as set forth by himself. The many passages dealing with this his favorite topic have been gleaned from his entire works and have been fitted together in chronological order.” Ticknor (1866-1937) made a name for herself writing biographical works about America
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Villa Mauresque, St. Jean-Cap Ferrat stationary, watermarked Vidalon, France. Signature in blue ink, most likely that of a fountain pen. To a Mr. Blevins, thanking him for his “charming card and good wishes.”... more information

With frontispiece and 1 plate. Original cloth-backed boards with paper labels to upper cover and spine, in original dust-jacket, chipped and small portion torn away. From the library of Alfred Heacock Whittaker, with his bookplate. First edition of this short biography which offers rare insight into the childhood and personal life of the physician and author.Tucker (1874-1945) knew Mitchell through generations of family friendship, their grandfathers and as well as their fathers were friends, and Mitchell s... more information

Woodcut arms of the Bourbons on title, engraved vignette of the Paris Observatory by Henri Simon Thomassin (1688-1741), and 5 folding plates. Contemporary calf, rebacked with the original spine laid down, spine with raised bands and gilt, hinges weak; title repaired, soiling and staining to gutter of first few leaves and toward the second half of the text and tables. First edition of Cassini’s tables showing movement of the sun, moon and planets, among other celestial observations. The Tables were so acc... more information

Original peach publisher’s cloth, title in gilt to spine. Very fine, in original dust-jacket. First edition of this collection of stories. Divided into three sections, the first made up of science-fictions stories, the second of “weird fiction” and the third consisting of tales inspired by Keller’s psychiatric practice.... more information

With 4 colour plates and numerous text illustrations. Original decorative wrappers, printed in colour, spine nearly gone, portion of back wrapper chipped; some offsetting from plates. Preserved in a cloth folding case. Holmes discusses health, almanacs, and the signs of the zodiac. BAL, 8864; C&T, p. 568... more information

Original printed wrappers. An excellent copy with presentation inscription from Mr. B.B. Kent Jr. To Dr. Sinclair on the front wrapper, and a small duplicate stamp on title. First edition of Holmes’ famous lecture. It was announced in The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal of December 19, 1867, that this was printed for the use of the Medical Class at Harvard University. BAL, 8860; C&T, p. 131; Cushing, H423... more information

With 16 full-page plates, text illustrations. Original publisher's cloth; author's inscription dated 1912 on the fly-leaf. First edition. Telephoto lenses were introduced in 1891 by Steinheil and Dallmeyer. The outstanding feature of their discovery was large, clear pictures of distant objects. The present text is the first attempt to outline the theory and techniques of telephotography.... more information

With 4 titles, 16 engraved illustrations and 2 folding engraved maps, plus the engraved frontispiece in Volume II taken from the English edition of 1684. Contemporary calf, raised bands, rebacked, repair to lower corner of front cover of Volume II; interior good. First editions of the rare complete set of Burnet's famous Sacred theory of the Earth; it is much more common to find the first editions of books III (dated 1689) and IV (dated 1688) bound with the second editions of the first two books. B... more information

Includes all half-titles and publisher’s advertisements. Original publisher’s cloth decorated in blind; all volumes have been re-backed with the original back-strips laid down. Small ownership stamp with crown and initial “D” in each volume. First English edition of one of the most famous novels about law. This tragi-comic novel became one of the most popular books of the century. It is an account of Mr. Tittlebat Titmouse, a draper’s assistant, who comes into a large fortune thanks... more information

With hundreds of text illustrations (a few in colour) from the author’s drawings. Contemporary morocco-backed marbled boards; very minor interior browning, otherwise a very nice copy. First edition. One of the greatest works in the neurosciences, printed by subscription in an edition of only 800 copies. It is here that Cajal laid the cytological and histological foundations of modern neurology. His investigations confirmed the neuron doctrine first proposed by His and Forel, that dendrites receive impu... more information

Original cloth-backed boards; a fine copy in the original pictorial dust-jacket. Newspaper reviews of the book laid in. First edition. “The Thanatos syndrome is a profoundly serious and often very funny novel which scans American culture like radar . . . which demonstrates how easily evil is committed by people convinced they are doing what is right and good. . .”... more information

Half-morocco and pebbled boards, spine decorated in blind, slightly rubbed at corners and edges of spine. Both volumes inscribed on front paste-down by William Prince, Vol. 2 with his large engraved bookplate. First edition of the first complete year of one of the most important American literary periodicals. It is here that Holmes’ great work was first printed. Ives, 96... more information

With frontispiece, 49 plates and text illustrations throughout. Original green publisher’s cloth, decorated in gilt. First edition, first printing of Doyle’s story, which was later included in Round the red lamp: being facts and fancies of medical life, published in the same year.... more information

Single folded sheet, two creases where previously folded. The present pamphlet is a transcript of the Green Lights to Health broadcast given through station WAAB by Moore on December 20, 1942. The address was sponsored by the Public Education Committee of the Massachusetts Medical Society as well as by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.... more information

With over 100 full-page photographs and diagrams of skulls and brains. Morocco-backed marbled boards; a fine, complete copy with all half titles, inscribed by Dr. Klaatsch. First edition of this intrinsically rare study of the Aboriginal brain. Klaatsch completes here his investigation into the cranial morphology of about ninety Australians Aboriginals based upon the view that each component part of the skull and skeleton belonging to different races of men forms a suitable subject for discussion on princip... more information

Boards. First printing of one of Holmes’ three famous essays on photography. Holmes’ interest in photography coincided with his invention of the hand stereoscope. C&T, pp. 119, 124, 256... more information

Text illustrations throughout. Original pictorial wrappers, a few small chips; one section of interior lightly browned, otherwise a clean copy. Contains Williams’ complete play Many loves. Wallace, C311... more information

Original blue publisher’s cloth, gilt lettering to top cover and spine. First English edition, second issue. Page 7, as in all second issues, is a cancel, with the erroneous line 12 corrected to read “I don’t not eat bread.” Rothschild & Whiteman, 209; Stott, A52b; NCBEL, 4, 663... more information