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. 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

  2. SWOBODA, Hermann.

    Die Perioden des menschlichen Organismus:...

    Leipzig, Deuticke, 1904.

    First editions, all rare, the first two...

    £200

  3. [SYPHILIS.]

    Della tabe dorsale ovvero della cura della...

    Venice, Graziosi, 1785.

    First Italian translation, uncommon, of...

    £135

  4. [TACCONI, Gaetano.]

    ‘Medicae inst[ructio]nes’, ‘Tractatus...

    [Bologna, Italy,] 1739.

    An extensive manuscript compendium of apparently...

    £1250

  5. THOMPSON, J.

    Modern Practice of Farriery, or complete...

    Philadelphia, Joseph Crukshank, 1807.

    First Philadelphia (second American) edition....

    £250

  6. TISSOT, Samuel August André David.

    Traité de l'épilepsie ...

    Paris, P.F. Didot, 1770.

    The scarce first edition of Tissot’s...

    £800

  7. [VACCINATION.]

    Agli abitanti del dipartimento dell’Ombrone...

    Siena, Onorato Porri, 1808.

    A seemingly unrecorded broadside promoting...

    £650

  8. WALLIS, William.

    The Western Gentleman’s Farrier, containing...

    Troy (OH), John T. Tullis, 1838.

    Second edition of an American work on farriery,...

    £250

  9. WHITE, James.

    A Compendium of the veterinary Art, containing...

    London, J. Badcock and Longman & Co.,...

    Sixth edition. Evidently a successful text,...

    £225

  10. WHITE, James.

    A Compendium of the veterinary Art, containing...

    Canterbury, W. Bristow for J. Badcock,...

    First edition of one of the first works...

    £275

  11. [WINSLOW, Jacob Benignus.]

    Terrible supplice et cruel désespoir des...

    [Paris, Joseph Bullot, 1752].

    Extremely rare first edition of this anonymous...

    £850

  12. WINTER, Georg Simon; Valentin TRICHTER, editor.

    Wohlerfahrner Pferde-Arzt, welcher gründlich...

    Philadelphia, Edmund N. Schelly, 1840.

    First American edition of Winter’s important...

    £750

  13. WOOD, John.

    A new compendious Treatise of Farriery,...

    London, Hewett for the author, and sold...

    First edition of a treatise on farriery...

    £650

  14. ZAND, Nathalie.

    [Drop-head title:] Les olives inférieures...

    [Paris, 31 December 1927.]

    Scarce offprint of a work on the inferior...

    £550

  15. ZEVIANI, Giovanni Verardo. 

    Del flato a favore degl’ipocondriaci. 

    Verona, Antonio Andreoni, 1755. 

    Rare first edition of the first medical...

    £650