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

Green library cloth, ex-libiris markings. Inscribed by the author on title. First edition. ... more information

Original printed wrappers. Inscribed and dated 1938 on title by Moore to a Mrs. Lustig Untermeyer (1885-77), a victim of the McCarthy era, was blacklisted for “communist subversion.” He was a poet, editor, translator, and anthologist, as well as a close friend of Moore’s, who contributed introductions to many of his works. ... more information

With a lithographic plate and leaf of publisher's advertisements. Recent cloth and endpapers, hinges weakened, some stains on blank verso of plate. First edition of an early treatise on the use of the opthalmoscope. The author was the first physician to make an important modification of Helmholtz's instrument. In the present work, he describes, for the first time, a number of ophthalmoscopic phenomena. His contributions to alleviating the condition of glaucoma, and his observations made during autop... more information

Text illustrations. Original printed wrappers (front wrapper reinforced) bound in modern cloth. Embossed stamp of the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences on the front wrapper. First edition of the author's rare offprint of a talk read before the Akademie der Wissenschaften, and published in the Zeitschrift für Luftschiffahrt the following year, 1896. This paper presents Obermayer's vital research on the principles of wind movement over wing surfaces. It contributed to the experimentation whi... more information

With one hand-coloured map. ... more information

The author's original offprint in the original printed wrappers. First announcement of the Wiener-Hopf equation, or the integral equation for (x). This equation occurs commonly in many applications. In its solution a study of the Fourier transform in the complex plane is necessary. The Fourier transform as a function of a complex variable proved to be very important in Wiener's subsequent research. Wiener's interest in the integral equation led to a second collaboration with Hopf on the in... more information

Printer's wrappers, tears at joints and edges; clean copy. ... more information

Each disbound, as issued; lightly browned. First and only edition. The first lecture includes "historical notes on the compass, Faraday's researches on diamagnetism (and notes about) polar aurorae." Beetz (1822-1886), a German physicist, was one of the founders of the German Physical Society. He devoted much research to electricity and also made improvements to the Wheatstone bridge. ... more information

Contemporary cloth-backed marbled boards; an excellent copy with browning to a few leaves. I: Second edition (printed the same year as the first). This extremely rare paper (On the Interaction of Natural Forces, and Recent Physical Discoveries Bearing on the Same), considered Helmholtz's most brilliant scientific lecture, was given in direct response to Clausius' assault of his landmark work, Über die Erhaltung der Kraft (On the Conservation of Energy), first read in 1847 before the Berlin Phys... more information

Sewn as issued. First edition. An in-depth look at why McClellan is so dishonest. Great campaign literature from the editor of the Washington bureau of the New York Times.... more information

Original green printed wrappers. Head and tail of spine tattered, one-inch tear to front cover, minor soiling, some pencil notations on rear cover. Signature of N.R. Chapman dated August 14, 1862 on front wrapper.  First printing of the Albany Evening Journal edition, one of the first (if not the first) announcements. The Office of the Commission of Internal Revenue was created because of the mounting public debt caused by the Civil War. This act outlines duties, levies, and licenses payable on al... more information

Two half-titles, notes and index. Original cloth; inscription on paste-down. First edition. An in-depth study on criminals and the future of justice.... more information

With 30 lithographic plates. Both text and atlas in the original light green printed wrappers bound into red cloth-backed boards. Plate 8 and the printed cover sheet to Plate 9 misbound. between Plate 12 and its cover sheet; Plate 11 and the following sheet detached. An exquisite uncut and unopened copy from the library of Herbert McLean Evans, with his book label on the verso of both front wrappers. First separate printing of this great rarity, "Golgi's histological studies made a clear conceptio... more information

Original printers wrappers; wide margins; uncut; some browning and brittle edges. ... more information

With 2 plates (1 in colour), 9 text illustrations. Original printed boards, backed in cloth. First edition of a valuable investigation on the detachment of the retina by Hirsch, an assistant at the Deutschen Universität at Prague. In addition to his clinical observations, there is an excellent discussion of the ophthalmoscope.... more information

With 2 folding lithograph plates. Original printed blue wrappers, with publisher's advertisements on lower and inner covers; some light fraying to extremities and spine due to paper quality, otherwise an excellent copy, mostly uncut. First edition of this work on congenital defects of the spine. Recklinghausen's "most notable contribution to child neurology" traces its development from the early formation of the neuroaxis to the full fetus, with two large engravings illustrating the intern... more information

With 5 plates of microbacillae (3 tinted and 2 double-page) by E. A. Funke. Original front printed wrapper bound into marbled boards; small stamp of L. Szuman on wrapper and on title page, faint numbers on title and verso. First edition of Koch's epochal announcement in which he proved that bacteria was the source of wound infections. With a gift of a microscope, Koch started his bacteriological research in part of his consulting room. He here devised simple and original methods for growing and examini... more information

With 4 photograph plates. Yellow spiral-bound wrappers. ... more information

Original blue printed front wrapper. Inscribed by Holmes on front wrapper to J.A. Lowell Esq. Preserved in a cloth folding case. First edition of this lively poem. BAL, 8745; C&T, p. 38; Ives, 125... more information