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. MARINIS, Dominico de. 

    Dissertatio philosophico-medica de re monstrosa...

    Rome, typis Iacobi Mascardi ... sumptibus...

    First edition of this scarce dissertation...

    £1850

  2. [DE LA GUTHÈRE.]

    Du bon usage des eaux de Baignieres.

    Agen, Antoine Bru … 1680.

    Scarce second edition, revised, a guide...

    £600

  3. GIBELLI, Giacinto. 

    Due dissertazioni sopra li vantaggi, che...

    Genoa, Paolo Scionico, 1767. 

    First and only edition, rare, of these...

    £600

  4. DIKREITER, Otto, and Renée SINTENIS (illustrator).

    Du und Dein Pferd: Ein anmutiges, belehrendes,...

    Berlin, Königsberg, & Leipzig, Kanter...

    First edition (seventh to tenth thousand)...

    £80

  5. HIPPOCRATES.

    The Eight Sections of Hippocrates Aphorismes...

    London, W. G. for Rob. Crofts, 1665.

    First edition of this translation of the...

    £850

  6. [KNIGHT, Charles.]

    The Elephant, principally viewed in Relation...

    London, William Clowes & Sons for Charles...

    First editions of treatises on the elephant...

    £275

  7. [ANON].

    Elogio del corno. Dell‘ autore della...

    Venice, Stamperia Graziosi, 1796.

    Only edition, as far as we can tell unrecorded,...

    £275

  8. BLAINE, Delabere Pritchett.

    An Encyclopaedia of rural Sports, or, complete...

    London, Spottiswoodes and Shaw for Longman,...

    Second edition of Blaine’s comprehensive...

    £275

  9. CULPEPER, Thomas.

    The English Physician enlarged: with three...

    London, Peter Cole, 1653.

    Second (first octavo) edition, enlarged...

    £1850

  10. MÜLLER, Johann Baptist.

    Erfahrungssätze über die contagiöse...

    Mainz, Florian Kupferberg, 1821.

    A fine presentation copy of Müller’s...

    £350

  11. HERNANDEZ, Joseph François Didace.

    Essai sur le typhus ou sur les fièvres...

    Paris, Cellot for Méquignon-Marvis, 1816.

    First edition by the physiologist and pathologist...

    £550

  12. SECHENOV, Ivan Mikhaylovich.

    Fisiologia nervnoy sistemy [in Cyrillic].

    St. Petersburg, 1866.

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

    £2750

  13. ALLIONI, Carlo.

    Flora Pedemontana sive enumeratio methodica...

    Turin, Giovanni Michele Briolo, 1785.

    First edition of the earliest Italian regional...

    £30000

  14. HIRSCH, William.

    Genius and Degeneration. A Psychological Study.

    New York, Appleton, 1896.

    First edition in English, translated...

    £150

  15. [ANON.]

    The Gentleman’s compleat Jockey, with...

    London, Peter Parker, 1711.

    Fifth edition, very scarce, of an anonymous...

    £1750

  16. KÜLPE, Oswald.

    Grundriss der Psychologie. Auf experimenteller...

    Leipzig, Wilhelm Engelmann, 1893. 

    First edition of this important work in...

    £400

  17. 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

  18. KÖLLIKER, Albert von.

    Handbuch der Gewebelehre des Menschen für...

    Leipzig, Wilhelm Engelmann, 1852.

    First edition, scarce. ‘A Swiss by birth,...

    £650

  19. BERENGER, Charles Random de.

    Helps and Hints how to protect Life and...

    London, J. & C. Adlard for T. Hurst ‘for...

    First edition, with advice on riding and...

    £180

  20. [KEENE, Marian].

    The History of a tame Robin. Supposed to...

    London: Printed for Darton, Harvey, and...

    First and only edition. The tame Robin...

    £325