Science
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Science at Quaritch is broadly defined, ranging from medicine, anatomy, pharmacology (including herbals) and natural history to astronomy, physics, chemistry and mathematics.
An interest in the origins of modern chemistry has led to a specialisation in works on alchemy and distillation, and from there we have also branched out into occultism and hermeticism. We have developed an interest in gastronomy and books on nutrition and wine, an area which over the years has become one of our specialities.-
SMITH, Robert.
The Universal Directory for taking alive...
London, printed for the author, 1768.
First edition of a guide to catching and...
£500
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[SMOLLETT, Tobias George.]
Autograph letter, signed, from Charles...
[London, undated, c.1850].
A signed autograph letter, from one Charles...
£225
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SPENCER, Herbert.
The Study of Sociology. [The International...
New York, Appleton, 1874.
First edition thus, the first American...
£100
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SQUIRES, Richard F.
Typescript letter to John Derek Smith,...
dated Gladsaxe [Denmark], December 7, 1965.
Squires’ main research was into multiple...
£180
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STATUTA COLLEGII DD.
Almae Urbis Medicorum ex antiquis Romanorum...
Rome, Printer of the Apostolic Chamber,...
The very rare enlarged and updated issue...
£550
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STENUIT, Alfred, and G. de VOGHEL.
Manuel de sauvetage dans les mines. Notions...
Tamines, Duculot-Roulin, 1909.
Only edition of this attractively illustrated...
£350
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STEWART, John; A. B. ALLEN, editor.
Stable Economy: A Treatise on the Management...
New York, D. Appleton & Co., and Philadelphia,...
First American edition of Stewart’s treatise....
£175
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STIRLING, A.M.W.
Ghosts vivisected. An impartial inquiry...
London, Robert Hale, 1957.
First edition, a very readable account...
£40
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SULLY, James.
Illusions, a psychological study. [The...
London, Kegan Paul, 1881.
First edition of Sully’s study of perception,...
£100
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SURTEES, Robert Smith.
The Horseman’s Manual, being a Treatise...
London, M.A. Pittman for Alfred Miller, 1831.
First edition of Surtees’s first work,...
£1250
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SWOBODA, Hermann.
Die Perioden des menschlichen Organismus:...
Leipzig, Deuticke, 1904.
First editions, all rare, the first two...
£200
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[SYPHILIS.]
Della tabe dorsale ovvero della cura della...
Venice, Graziosi, 1785.
First Italian translation, uncommon, of...
£135
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[TACCONI, Gaetano.]
‘Medicae inst[ructio]nes’, ‘Tractatus...
[Bologna, Italy,] 1739.
An extensive manuscript compendium of apparently...
£1250
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TARTAGLIA, Niccolò Fontana.
Quesiti, et inventioni diverse.
[(Colophon:) Venice, Venturino Ruffinelli...
First edition, annotated throughout by...
£6750
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THOMPSON, J.
Modern Practice of Farriery, or complete...
Philadelphia, Joseph Crukshank, 1807.
First Philadelphia (second American) edition....
£250
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TISSOT, Samuel August André David.
Traité de l'épilepsie ...
Paris, P.F. Didot, 1770.
The scarce first edition of Tissot’s...
£800
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[VACCINATION.]
Agli abitanti del dipartimento dell’Ombrone...
Siena, Onorato Porri, 1808.
A seemingly unrecorded broadside promoting...
£650
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VILLA, Antonio, and Giovanni Battista VILLA.
Dispositio systematica conchyliarum terrestrium...
Milan, ex typis Borroni et Scotti, 1841.
First edition of this catalogue of molluscs...
£275
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VISSCHER, Nicolaes [I].
...
Amsterdam, Nicolaus [I] Visscher, 1659.
First and only edition of this rare...
£3750
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WALCOTT, John.
The Figures, Description, and History of...
London, W. Justins for the Author, and...
First and only edition, very rare, published...
£3500