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. SCHRÖDINGER, Erwin, et al.

    A collection of offprints and papers from...

    1902–1961.

    A remarkable collection of offprints and...

    £45000

  2. SECHENOV, Ivan Mikhaylovich.

    Fisiologia nervnoy sistemy [in Cyrillic].

    St. Petersburg, 1866.

    first edition, rare, of Sechenov’s influential...

    £2750

  3. 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

  4. SIMON, John, Sir.

    A volume of autograph letters received...

    Circa 1848-1887.

    An interesting collection of letters to...

    £1250

  5. SMITH, Robert. 

    The Universal Directory for taking alive...

    London, printed for the author, 1768. 

    First edition of a guide to catching and...

    £500

  6. SMITH, Samuel.

    Aditus ad logicam. In usum eorum qui primò...

    Oxford, Henry Hall for Richard Davis, 1649.

    A sammelband of two seventeenth-century...

    £675

  7. [SMOLLETT, Tobias George.]

    Autograph letter, signed, from Charles...

    [London, undated, c.1850].

    A signed autograph letter, from one Charles...

    £225

  8. SPENCER, Herbert.

    The Study of Sociology. [The International...

    New York, Appleton, 1874.

    First edition thus, the first American...

    £100

  9. SQUIRES, Richard F.

    Typescript letter to John Derek Smith,...

    dated Gladsaxe [Denmark], December 7, 1965.

    Squires’ main research was into multiple...

    £180

  10. STATUTA COLLEGII DD.

    Almae Urbis Medicorum ex antiquis Romanorum...

    Rome, Printer of the Apostolic Chamber,...

    The very rare enlarged and updated issue...

    £550

  11. STENUIT, Alfred, and G. de VOGHEL.

    Manuel de sauvetage dans les mines. Notions...

    Tamines, Duculot-Roulin, 1909.

    Only edition of this attractively illustrated...

    £350

  12. 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

  13. STIRLING, A.M.W.

    Ghosts vivisected. An impartial inquiry...

    London, Robert Hale, 1957.

    First edition, a very readable account...

    £40

  14. SULLY, James.

    Illusions, a psychological study. [The...

    London, Kegan Paul, 1881.

    First edition of Sully’s study of perception,...

    £100

  15. 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

  16. SWOBODA, Hermann.

    Die Perioden des menschlichen Organismus:...

    Leipzig, Deuticke, 1904.

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

    £200

  17. [SYPHILIS.]

    Della tabe dorsale ovvero della cura della...

    Venice, Graziosi, 1785.

    First Italian translation, uncommon, of...

    £135

  18. [TACCONI, Gaetano.]

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

    [Bologna, Italy,] 1739.

    An extensive manuscript compendium of apparently...

    £1250

  19. TARTAGLIA, Niccolò Fontana.

    Quesiti, et inventioni diverse.

    [(Colophon:) Venice, Venturino Ruffinelli...

    First edition, annotated throughout by...

    £6750

  20. THOMPSON, J.

    Modern Practice of Farriery, or complete...

    Philadelphia, Joseph Crukshank, 1807.

    First Philadelphia (second American) edition....

    £250