Search Results: Authors starting with W from Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts

Philadelphia: Franklin Institute, 1872. FIRST EDITION. Illustrated with plates (many folding), text illustrations, drawings, graphics, photographs, and full page color illustrations. Half calf over cloth boards. First edition of this fascinating journal describing and illustrating some of the latest inventions and innovations in science and mechanics. The articles include:Baird on the absorption of gases by water;Cooke on the chemical theory of the voltaic battery;Leeds on ventilation;Owen on terrestrial magnetism;The awarding of the Rumford Medal to Joseph Harrison for his method of constructing steam boilers;Other articles describe and illustrate some of the latest inventions in science and mechanics. A fascinating journal.

Berlin: In Taberna Libraria Scholae Realis, 1812. FIRST EDITION. 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 With a large bookplate from the Academiae Harvardianae donation fund of 1842 (received 1849 and withdrawn).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 with an index to genera and species. It is considered rare and important.Wahlenberg (1780-1851) was a Swedish naturalist. He was appointed botanic demonstrater and later professor of medicine and botany at Uppsala, succeeding Carl Peter Thunberg.

Original account book of 150 pages, 22 lines each, on blue lined paper. Walpole lived at Strawberry Hill for about fifty years until his death in March 1797. The property was ultimately passed to his grand-niece Laura Elizabeth Waldegrave, and thereafter to her eldest son John Waldegrave and his wife Frances. In 1855 the Countess Waldegrave decided to restore Strawberry Hill and turn it into a palace for great political receptions. She invested about £20,000 a year; the account book details the monthly expenses paid out, such as workers' wages, their names and the amounts paid for the month. (Offered with) Manuscript book cataloguing approximately 7500 prints, books and drawings for a massive extraillustrated edition of Walpole's letters.

London: Printed by T.W. [Thomas Warren] for Ed. [Edward] Husband, 1646. FIRST EDITION. Engraved frontispiece, woodcut headpieces. Contemporary calf, worn, especially at spine, joints somewhat tender; first blank appears to be torn out, leaf with frontispiece repaired, some browning and soiling mostly on edges. Overall a good copy from the library of the Earls of Macclesfield with their dated (1860) bookplate (motto "Sapere aude") on the paste-down and blind embossed stamp of armorial on first three leaves.

London: Printed for the author, 1802. SECOND EDITION. Illustrated with 49 folding copperplates. Contemporary calf, worn and rubbed; scattered browning, spotting and offsetting from plates, some waterstains. From the library of Arnold Thackray with his bookplate on the paste-down of each volume.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1939. FIRST EDITION. Blue cloth, decorated in gilt. Includes a page of Walker's actual manuscript. First edition of this story of the literary publications that came out of the far west.

New York: T. & J. Swords, printers to. . . Columbia College, 1802. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. Disbound. First and only edition of this early American dissertation submitted to the trustees of Columbia College, in the state of New York, for the degree of Doctor of Physic. Walker gives an in-depth analysis of the physiology, pathology and chemical actions that produce perspiration, as well as describing various secretions and how they originate. In addition, there is a discussion on both the benefits and damages sweating can do to the body. Of particular interest are his ideas on odors in relation to uncleanliness and skin colour, and how they can cause malignant and pestilential disease.

London: Macmillan and Co., 1890. SECOND EDITION. With half-title and 2 page publisher's advertisements. Heliotype frontispiece portrait of author, 1 hand-coloured folding map, text illustrations and diagrams. Original green cloth. Second edition of Wallace's treatise on the theory of natural selection. This is Wallace's restatement of the origin of species on the same general lines as were adopted by Darwin, but from the standpoint reached after nearly thirty years of discussion and with many new facts and the advocacy of many new as well as old theories. Notwithstanding the care taken to point out the differences between his and Darwin's theory, Wallace claims for this book "the position of being the advocate of pure Darwinism.

London: Printed by J.N. [John Norton] for Abel Roper, 1641. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Woodcut device on title, woodcut initials and headpieces. Half-morocco and pebbled boards, title in gilt on spine; other than browning on the fly-leaf, interior excellent. From the Markree Library with its small book label on the paste-down.

Philadelphia & London: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1919. FIRST EDITION. Original publisher's cloth, in original dust-jacket; interior bright and clean. First edition of this dramatic novel, which contains what may quite possibly be the very first use of the term "paranoiac." "A paranoiac is a person who is badly out of joint with his surroundings. He cannot find his place in the band, but wants to play trombone on the drum. He can play trombone fluently, but not in tune, so he thinks the others are making discords to annoy him." Walton (1854-1941), a consulting neurologist at the Massachusetts General Hospital, was also the author of several other literary works, including Why worry?; The flower finder; Those nerves; and Calm yourself. BMC, XXVI, 628.

[New Hampshire]: [n.p.], 1863. Unopened. A very interesting narrative (early blog) from some guy who likes to read his own writing, but from a little-heard state. Also includes sections entitled Why not have peace!; What are we fighting for?; Facts and figures; the president and his administration; and arbitrary arrests. If nothing else, should be read for the information on the cost of the war.

St. Louis: George Knapp & Co., 1861. FIRST EDITION. Original cloth-backed boards with paper spine label; small cancelled stamp on title, scattered foxing, but overall an excellent copy of this item in the delicate original binding. First edition. A fascinating view of the proceedings at which the State of Missouri considers its relationship with the federal government of the United States.

Half-sheep over marbled boards. Spine label: Speeches. Presentation inscription on fly-leaf, from James B. Smallwood to the Hon. John P. Hale, U.S. Senator, dated April 4, 1861.

New York, 1882. Very little text, mostly illustrations.

Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1876. Frontispiece wood engraving ("The wooden man 6,000 years old), title vignette, woodcut head- and tailpieces. Red pictorial cloth in black and gold, rebacked with the original spine laid down; text is toned but clean. Bookplate of the Ladies' Christian Union. First edition, published simultaneously in Hartford by the American Publishing Company, of Warner's account of his travels down the Nile and around Egypt. This work includes detailed stories about his exploration of mosques, visits to the Pharaoh tombs, and interactions with local Egyptians and their culture. Through interpreters, Warner spoke with everyone he could to soak up as much of the Egyptian life as possible while he traveled around what was, at the time, considered an unknown part of the world to many Americans. Warner (1829-1900) was an American novelist, a friend of Mark Twain with whom he co-authored The gilded age.

[London]: Printed for the subscribers, 1911. With frontispiece portrait of Warner, 2 full-page colored plates and 41 additional plates. Morocco-backed cloth, spine very worn (most of the morocco is gone and a significant piece of the head of the spine is also missing); interior quite clean, though 2 leaves are loose (probably needs re-sewing). This fine work was privately printed on the retirement of Warner as Keeper of Manuscripts at the British Museum. MS 24089 was apparently one of Warner's favorites.

Boston: William D. Ticknor & Company, 1846. FIRST EDITION. Preceding the title page is a 4-page publisher's catalogue. Original flexible cloth, author and title in gilt on front cover. An excellent copy with the presentation signature of the author to M.B. Parkman.

Boston: David Clapp, 1864. FIRST EDITION. Purple cloth with elegant device stamped in gilt and blind to boards; sunning to spine, minor chipping at head and tail of spine. Inscribed by the author to James T. Fields (1817-1881) of the notable publisher Ticknor and Fields on the fly-leaf. A very nice wide-margined copy.

Boston: William D. Ticknor & Co., 1848. FIRST EDITION. Modern morocco, new endpapers; dedication leaf detached and title page crudely repaired. Ownership signatures on fly-leaf. FIRST USE OF ANAESTHESIA IN MAJOR SURGERY. First edition. Warren records here the first application of anaesthesia during major surgery. On October 16, 1846 he excised a tumor from the neck of a twenty-year-old printer, Gilbert Abbott, assisted by William Morton, a Boston dentist who administered the ether. This event was to transform medical and surgical practice. Also included in this volume are a number of Warren's case histories, demonstrating the physiological effects of ether, and his monograph on chloroform.Warren (1778-1856) was a founder of both the Massachusetts General Hospital and The New England Journal of Medicine. The first American surgeon to operate for strangulated hernia, he also introduced the operation for aneurism.

[Charlottesville]: University of Virginia, 1951. FIRST EDITION. Stapled, mimeographed typescript, printed on rectos and versos. Caption title. Stapled to a leaf of brown paper, folded, stamp on first leaf, "Biography / Faulkner, Wm." printed in pen on top right of first leaf. First printing of this biographical lecture, presented as the First Peters Rushton Seminar in Contemporary Prose and Poetry, the sixteenth in the series sponsored by the schools of English at the University of Virginia.