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.
  1. MORTON, John.

    The natural History of Northampton-Shire,...

    London, R. Knaplock and R. Wilkin, 1712.

    First edition of Morton’s systematic...

    £775

  2. MÜLLER, Johann Baptist.

    Erfahrungssätze über die contagiöse...

    Mainz, Florian Kupferberg, 1821.

    A fine presentation copy of Müller’s...

    £350

  3. NIGHTINGALE, Florence.

    Notes on Matters affecting the Health,...

    London, Harrison and Sons, 1858.

    First edition, printed for private circulation...

    £18000

  4. [NOVARA.]

    [Incipit:] Il vescovo di Novara...

    [Novara], 10 May 1805.

    An apparently unrecorded broadside from...

    £175

  5. ORIBASIUS. 

    Commentaria in Aphorismos Hippocratis …...

    Paris, Simon de Colines, 1533. 

    First edition of this commentary on Hippocrates,...

    £1750

  6. OSBALDISTON, William Augustus.

    The British Sportsman, or Nobleman, Gentleman,...

    London, J. Stead for the Proprietor, and...

    First edition, issued in forty-two parts,...

    £650

  7. [PARACELSUS.

    Aureoli Theophrasti Paracelsi eremitae...

    [Basel, Pietro Perna, 1575.]

    The second half of a two-volume edition...

    £1750

  8. PARKER, Thomas Netherton.

    Leaves out of the Book of a Country Gentleman.

    Oswestry, W. Price, London, Longman &...

    First and only edition of this very rare...

    £1950

  9. PASCOLI, Alessandro. 

    Nuovo metodo per introdursi ad imitazion...

    Venice, Andrea Poletti, 1721. 

    Scarce second edition (first 1702) of this...

    £450

  10. PASTA, Giuseppe. 

    Della facoltà dell’oppio nelle malattie...

    Bergamo, dalla stamperia Antoine, 1788. 

    Very rare first edition of this treatise...

    £350

  11. PASTEUR, Louis.

    Visiting card with autograph note.

    [No place, undated.]

    With the autograph note ‘Avec ses remerciments...

    £400

  12. [PHARMACOPOEIA.]

    Pharmacopoea Taurinensis nunc primum edita...

    Turin, Jean-Baptiste Chais, 1736.

    First edition of this Turin pharmacopoeia,...

    £1800

  13. [PHARMACOPOEIA.]

    Apparatus medicaminum ad usum nosocomii...

    Pavia, Joseph Bolzani, [1790].

    Very rare first edition of this pharmacopoeia...

    £750

  14. POCOCKE, Richard. 

    A Description of the East, and some other...

    ...

    First edition, demy folio issue. A successful...

    £8000

  15. [POETRY.] 

    ‘Trattato della [poesia Toscana]’. 

    [Asti?, 1780-1782.] 

    A manuscript treatise on the method of...

    £750

  16. RAIMONDI, Eugenio.

    Delle caccie … libri Quattro, aggiuntovi’n...

    [Naples, Lazzaro Scoriggio, 1626.]

    Second edition, expanded and extended,...

    £2500

  17. RANK, Otto.

    Der Mythus von der Geburt des Helden. Versuch...

    Leipzig and Vienna, Franz Deuticke, 1909.

    First edition of this psychoanalytical...

    £100

  18. REFELL, A. 

    Trugbilder: Eine Anleitung Erscheinungen,...

    Stuttgart, Rieger, 1865. 

    First German edition, rare, of this fascinating...

    £1250

  19. RICHARDUS ANGLICUS.

    Correctorium alchymiae ... Das is reformierte...

    Strasbourg, Bernard Jobin, 1581.

    First edition of ‘a very rare collection’...

    £4500

  20. RIEMANN, Georg Friedrich Bernhard.

    Ein Beitrag zu den Untersuchungen über...

    Göttingen, Dieterichsche Buchhandlung, 1861.

    the very rare offprint issue from the abhandlungen...

    £750