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. NIGHTINGALE, Florence.

    Notes on Matters affecting the Health,...

    London, Harrison and Sons, 1858.

    First edition, printed for private circulation...

    £18000

  2. [NOVARA.]

    [Incipit:] Il vescovo di Novara...

    [Novara], 10 May 1805.

    An apparently unrecorded broadside from...

    £175

  3. ORIBASIUS. 

    Commentaria in Aphorismos Hippocratis …...

    Paris, Simon de Colines, 1533. 

    First edition of this commentary on Hippocrates,...

    £1750

  4. OSBALDISTON, William Augustus.

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

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

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

    £650

  5. [PARKER, Richard Green; Junkichi KATAYAMA 片山 淳吉, editor.]

    物理階梯 [Butsuri kaitei; ‘A...

    Gifu Prefecture, Ministry of Education,...

    First edition, very rare, of Japan’s...

    £1750

  6. 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

  7. PASTA, Giuseppe. 

    Della facoltà dell’oppio nelle malattie...

    Bergamo, dalla stamperia Antoine, 1788. 

    Very rare first edition of this treatise...

    £350

  8. PASTEUR, Louis.

    Visiting card with autograph note.

    [No place, undated.]

    With the autograph note ‘Avec ses remerciments...

    £400

  9. [PHARMACOPOEIA.]

    Pharmacopoea Taurinensis nunc primum edita...

    Turin, Jean-Baptiste Chais, 1736.

    First edition of this Turin pharmacopoeia,...

    £1800

  10. [PHARMACOPOEIA.]

    Apparatus medicaminum ad usum nosocomii...

    Pavia, Joseph Bolzani, [1790].

    Very rare first edition of this pharmacopoeia...

    £750

  11. POCOCKE, Richard. 

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

    ...

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

    £8000

  12. POPE, William.

    Manuscript arithmetic schoolbook.

    [Tiverton?] ‘Sunday Octr...

    A manuscript arithmetic schoolbook belonging...

    £850

  13. PORTA, Giambattista della.

    De humana physiognomonia … libri IIII;...

    Hanau, Wilhelm Antonius for [Frankfurt,]...

    The second Latin edition and the first...

    £2500

  14. QUETELET, M. A.

    Letters Addressed to H. R. H. the Grand...

    London, Charles & Edwin Layton, 1849.

    First edition in English. ‘This book...

    £550

  15. RANK, Otto.

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

    Leipzig and Vienna, Franz Deuticke, 1909.

    First edition of this psychoanalytical...

    £100

  16. REFELL, A. 

    Trugbilder: Eine Anleitung Erscheinungen,...

    Stuttgart, Rieger, 1865. 

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

    £1250

  17. RICHARD of Wendover.

    Correctorium alchymiae … Das is reformierte...

    Strasbourg, Bernard Jobin, 1581.

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

    £4500

  18. [ROYAL PRUSSIAN SOCIETY OF SCIENCES.]

    Miscellanea berolinensia ad incrementum...

    Berlin, Johann Christoph Papen, 1723.

    First continuation of Leibniz’s Miscellanea...

    £575

  19. RUSH, John; Jacob F. SHEEK, editor.

    The Hand-Book to veterinary Homoeopathy,...

    New York & San Francisco, Boericke & Tafel,...

    Later American edition of a rare hand-book...

    £275

  20. SABATIER, Raphaël Bienvenu.

    Traité complet d’anatomie, ou description...

    Paris, Théophile Barrois, 1791.

    Third edition (first 1775) of this popular...

    £200