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.-
[DE LA GUTHÈRE.]
Du bon usage des eaux de Baignieres.
Agen, Antoine Bru … 1680.
Scarce second edition, revised, a guide...
£600
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DE NASCA, Giuseppe.
Intorno all’uso del laudano concentrato...
Naples, Giovanni Battista Seguim, 1828.
Very rare tract on the use of concentrated...
£550
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[DEZALLIER D’ARGENVILLE, Antoine Joseph.]
Conchyliologie nouvelle et portative, ou...
Paris, ‘chez Regnard, Imprimeur de l’Académie...
First edition, uncommon, of this pocket...
£400
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DIKREITER, Otto, and Renée SINTENIS (illustrator).
Du und Dein Pferd: Ein anmutiges, belehrendes,...
Berlin, Königsberg, & Leipzig, Kanter...
First edition (seventh to tenth thousand)...
£80
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DURHAM, Arthur E.
Transverse Section of Wood (Salisburia).
Circa 1870s.
A rare and attractive microphotograph of...
£1100
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DUTROCHET, Henri.
Recherches sur l’endosmose et sur la...
[Paris, imprimerie de Veuve Thuau, 1832.]
An interesting article on endosmosis by...
£175
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DVIGUBSKY, Ivan Alekseevich.
Опытъ естественной исторіи...
Moscow, University Press, 1831.
First edition, rare, one of a series of...
£2000
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EDWARDS, James.
The hemiptera-homoptera (cicadina and psyllina)...
London, Ballantyne, Hanson, & Co. for...
First edition of Edwards’s survey of...
£75
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EMSWORTH, D.
Le cheval & le chien.
Brussels, widow Parent & Son, and Paris,...
Very rare French treatise on horses and...
£375
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[FARSARI, Adolfo, Studio of.]
Japanese flower seller.
[Yokohama?, c. 1887.]
A striking image of a Japanese flower vendor,...
£200
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FENNING, Daniel.
The Ready Reckoner; or Trader’s most...
London, printed for S. Crowder … and...
First edition thus, edited by the mathematician...
£250
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[FIRST AID – RAILWAYS.]
Ministère des chemins de fer, postes et...
Ghent, F.& R. Buyck, 1912.
First separate edition, seemingly unrecorded,...
£195
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FLORIO, Blasco.
Lettera sopra alcuni ostacoli che la logica,...
Messina, Giuseppe Fiumara, 1825.
Very rare first edition of this work on...
£475
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FREUD, Sigmund.
Moses and monotheism [translated from the...
New York, Alfred A, Knopf, 1939.
First American edition of the last lifetime...
£80
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GABARO, Antonio.
Alla pregiatissima Signora Domenica Schiavon...
Padua, ‘Nella Tipografia del Seminario’,...
First and only edition, very rare, of a...
£380
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[GALEN.] STEPHANUS.
Stephani Atheniensis philosophi explanationes...
Venice, Giunta, November 1554.
First edition of Agostino Gadaldini’s...
£950
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GARSAULT, François-Alexandre de.
Le nouveau parfait maréchal, ou la connoissance...
Paris, Moreau for Hochereau, 1770.
Fourth edition of one of the most popular...
£650
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GASPARIN, Agénor Étienne, Comte de.
Des tables tournantes du surnaturel en...
Paris, Bonaventure and Ducessois for E....
Scarce first edition of Gasparin’s early...
£1500
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GAYOT DE PITAVAL, [François].
Question d’estat: fille reclamée par...
Paris, Nicolas le Gras, 1716.
Very rare first edition of this account...
£350
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GIBELLI, Giacinto.
Due dissertazioni sopra li vantaggi, che...
Genoa, Paolo Scionico, 1767.
First and only edition, rare, of these...
£600