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

Over two hundred and twenty zoological offprints from more than one hundred and fifty preeminent scientists in the field, the majority with original printed wrappers. Among many of the subjects covered are heredity & genetics, eugenics, and embryology, several accompanied with exquisite plates. From Zoologiska Institutionens Bibliotek, Upsala with its stamp on most of the title pages/covers. Also, many from the libraries of Alexander Goette, Professor Wilhelm Lilljeborg or Axel Wirén with their s... more information

including half-title and errata in each volume. Full tree-calf with red spine labels, joints starting; marginal browning to first and last few leaves of both volumes. First edition of this very popular and controversial novel, featuring a perfect Gothic villain as its protagonist. Moore (1729-1820), a Scottish physician and writer, was the biographer of Tobias Smollet. Zeluco was his best known work. BMC, XVII, 658... more information

With 197 text tables. Original wrappers, title in ink on spine; a fine uncut copy. First edition of a valuable treatise by Duméril (1774-1860), a protégé and close friend of Cuvier. ... more information

With 4 folding plates in first work and 5 in second work (4 folding). Original front wrappers; both disbound. Signature of former owner. Original offprints of a two-part essay on the central nervous system by a lauded nineteenth-century neurologist. The first part covers the cerebellum, the second part the spinal chord. K lliker (1817-1905), one of the leading biologists of the nineteenth century, was the first to recognize the cellular structure of tissue. He was author of the first book on comparative em... more information