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.-
[PHARMACOPOEIA.]
Pharmacopoea Taurinensis nunc primum edita...
Turin, Jean-Baptiste Chais, 1736.
First edition of this Turin pharmacopoeia,...
£1800
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[PHARMACOPOEIA.]
Apparatus medicaminum ad usum nosocomii...
Pavia, Joseph Bolzani, [1790].
Very rare first edition of this pharmacopoeia...
£750
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PORTA, Giambattista della.
De humana physiognomonia … libri IIII;...
Hanau, Wilhelm Antonius for [Frankfurt,]...
The second Latin edition and the first...
£2500
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RANK, Otto.
Der Mythus von der Geburt des Helden. Versuch...
Leipzig and Vienna, Franz Deuticke, 1909.
First edition of this psychoanalytical...
£100
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REFELL, A.
Trugbilder: Eine Anleitung Erscheinungen,...
Stuttgart, Rieger, 1865.
First German edition, rare, of this fascinating...
£1250
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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
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SABATIER, Raphaël Bienvenu.
Traité complet d’anatomie, ou description...
Paris, Théophile Barrois, 1791.
Third edition (first 1775) of this popular...
£200
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SECHENOV, Ivan Mikhaylovich.
Fisiologia nervnoy sistemy [in Cyrillic].
St. Petersburg, 1866.
first edition, rare, of Sechenov’s influential...
£2750
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SHŌKOKU Dōjin 勝圀道人, pseud. [KAMURO An’e 禿安慧].
護法新論 [Gohō shinron; ‘A New Treatise...
[Japan], Seimeikan, (colophon:) Keiō 3 [1867].
First edition, very rare, of this illustrated...
£1250
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SIMON, John, Sir.
A volume of autograph letters received...
Circa 1848-1887.
An interesting collection of letters to...
£1250
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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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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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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