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. OSBALDISTON, William Augustus.

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

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

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

    £650

  2. [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

  3. PASTA, Giuseppe. 

    Della facoltà dell’oppio nelle malattie...

    Bergamo, dalla stamperia Antoine, 1788. 

    Very rare first edition of this treatise...

    £350

  4. PASTEUR, Louis.

    Visiting card with autograph note.

    [No place, undated.]

    With the autograph note ‘Avec ses remerciments...

    £400

  5. [PHARMACOPOEIA.]

    Pharmacopoea Taurinensis nunc primum edita...

    Turin, Jean-Baptiste Chais, 1736.

    First edition of this Turin pharmacopoeia,...

    £1800

  6. [PHARMACOPOEIA.]

    Apparatus medicaminum ad usum nosocomii...

    Pavia, Joseph Bolzani, [1790].

    Very rare first edition of this pharmacopoeia...

    £750

  7. POCOCKE, Richard. 

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

    ...

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

    £8000

  8. POPE, William.

    Manuscript arithmetic schoolbook.

    [Tiverton?] ‘Sunday Octr...

    A manuscript arithmetic schoolbook belonging...

    £850

  9. QUETELET, M. A.

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

    London, Charles & Edwin Layton, 1849.

    First edition in English. ‘This book...

    £550

  10. RANK, Otto.

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

    Leipzig and Vienna, Franz Deuticke, 1909.

    First edition of this psychoanalytical...

    £100

  11. REFELL, A. 

    Trugbilder: Eine Anleitung Erscheinungen,...

    Stuttgart, Rieger, 1865. 

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

    £1250

  12. RICHARD of Wendover.

    Correctorium alchymiae … Das is reformierte...

    Strasbourg, Bernard Jobin, 1581.

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

    £4500

  13. [ROYAL PRUSSIAN SOCIETY OF SCIENCES.]

    Miscellanea berolinensia ad incrementum...

    Berlin, Johann Christoph Papen, 1723.

    First continuation of Leibniz’s Miscellanea...

    £575

  14. 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

  15. SABATIER, Raphaël Bienvenu.

    Traité complet d’anatomie, ou description...

    Paris, Théophile Barrois, 1791.

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

    £200

  16. SACCHI, Giovenale. 

    Del numero e delle misure delle corde musiche...

    Milan, [Giuseppe Mazzucchelli (colophon),]...

    First edition of Sacchi’s first work:...

    £850

  17. SACROBOSCO, Johannes de; Francesco GIUNTINI, editor.

    Sphaera Ioannis de Sacro Bosco emendata....

    Antwerp, heirs of Arnold Birckmann, 1566.

    A richly annotated and illustrated copy...

    £3000

  18. [SACROBOSCO, Johannes de.]

    CLAVIUS, Christophorus. In sphaeram Ioannis...

    Rome, Francesco Zanetti for Domenico Basa,...

    Third edition, the first to contain Clavius’s...

    £2500

  19. [SCHLOSSER, Johann Albert].  BODDAERT, Pieter.

    Epistola ad … Hier. Dav. Gaubium …...

    Amsterdam, apud M. Magerum, 1772.

    First and only edition of Boddaert’s...

    £500

  20. [SCHLOSSER, Johann Albert.] BODDAERT, Pieter. 

    Epistola ad virum celeberrimum Johannem...

    Amsterdam, apud Cornelium van Tongerlo, 1770.

    First and only edition of Boddaert’s...

    £500