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. SQUIRES, Richard F.

    Typescript letter to John Derek Smith,...

    dated Gladsaxe [Denmark], December 7, 1965.

    Squires’ main research was into multiple...

    £180

  2. STATUTA COLLEGII DD.

    Almae Urbis Medicorum ex antiquis Romanorum...

    Rome, Printer of the Apostolic Chamber,...

    The very rare enlarged and updated issue...

    £550

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

    Manuel de sauvetage dans les mines. Notions...

    Tamines, Duculot-Roulin, 1909.

    Only edition of this attractively illustrated...

    £350

  4. 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

  5. STIRLING, A.M.W.

    Ghosts vivisected. An impartial inquiry...

    London, Robert Hale, 1957.

    First edition, a very readable account...

    £40

  6. SULLY, James.

    Illusions, a psychological study. [The...

    London, Kegan Paul, 1881.

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

    £100

  7. 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

  8. SWOBODA, Hermann.

    Die Perioden des menschlichen Organismus:...

    Leipzig, Deuticke, 1904.

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

    £200

  9. [SYPHILIS.]

    Della tabe dorsale ovvero della cura della...

    Venice, Graziosi, 1785.

    First Italian translation, uncommon, of...

    £135

  10. [TACCONI, Gaetano.]

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

    [Bologna, Italy,] 1739.

    An extensive manuscript compendium of apparently...

    £1250

  11. TARTAGLIA, Niccolò Fontana.

    Quesiti, et inventioni diverse.

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

    First edition, annotated throughout by...

    £6750

  12. THOMPSON, J.

    Modern Practice of Farriery, or complete...

    Philadelphia, Joseph Crukshank, 1807.

    First Philadelphia (second American) edition....

    £250

  13. TISSOT, Samuel August André David.

    Traité de l'épilepsie ...

    Paris, P.F. Didot, 1770.

    The scarce first edition of Tissot’s...

    £800

  14. [VACCINATION.]

    Agli abitanti del dipartimento dell’Ombrone...

    Siena, Onorato Porri, 1808.

    A seemingly unrecorded broadside promoting...

    £650

  15. VILLA, Antonio, and Giovanni Battista VILLA. 

    Dispositio systematica conchyliarum terrestrium...

    Milan, ex typis Borroni et Scotti, 1841. 

    First edition of this catalogue of molluscs...

    £275

  16. VISSCHER, Nicolaes [I]. 

    ...

    Amsterdam, Nicolaus [I] Visscher, 1659. 

    First and only edition of this rare...

    £3750

  17. WALCOTT, John. 

    The Figures, Description, and History of...

    London, W. Justins for the Author, and...

    First and only edition, very rare, published...

    £3500

  18. WALLIS, William.

    The Western Gentleman’s Farrier, containing...

    Troy (OH), John T. Tullis, 1838.

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

    £250

  19. [WALL, Thomas].

    A Second Christian Warning-Piece; wherein...

    London, 1681-2.

    First edition, very rare, of a vehement...

    £1750

  20. WHITE, James.

    A Compendium of the veterinary Art, containing...

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

    Sixth edition. Evidently a successful text,...

    £225