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. LEE, Edwin.

    The Principal Baths of Germany [– The...

    London, Whittaker & Cp., Paris, Galignani...

    First edition, scarce, of Edwin Lee’s...

    £350

  2. LEE, Henry.

    [Cover title:] The White Whale …

    London, R. K. Burt & Co. … 1878.

    First edition, an account of the white...

    £225

  3. LEIGH, William R.

    The Western Pony … Foreword by James L. Clark.

    New York, Huntington Press, 1933.

    First edition of Leigh’s finely printed...

    £450

  4. LISTER, Joseph.

    Three autograph letters, signed, to Sir...

    London, 12 Park Crescent, Portland Place,...

    Three letters by the great surgeon Joseph...

    £750

  5. [LUXATION.]

    Sammelband of twenty-six works on dislocation.

    France, Germany, Italy, 1803–1882.

    A collection of twenty-six rare works relating...

    £750

  6. MAGNER, D.

    The new System of Educating Horses, including...

    Philadelphia, Burk & M’Fetridge, 1881.

    Twelfth edition of a well illustrated manual...

    £65

  7. MARINIS, Dominico de. 

    Dissertatio philosophico-medica de re monstrosa...

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

    First edition of this scarce dissertation...

    £1850

  8. MARKHAM, Gervase.

    Cavalarice, or the English Horseman: Contayning...

    London, Edward Allde for Edward White,...

    A beautiful copy of the second edition,...

    £9750

  9. MARKHAM, ‘J.’ [Gervase], G. JEFFERIES, ‘and Experienced INDIANS’, [and C.D. LESHER (editor)].

    The Citizen and Countryman’s experienced...

    Chambersburg, Thomas J. Wright, [c. 1839].

    Undated Chambersburg edition. Among the...

    £250

  10. MARTINENQ, Jean Baptiste Thomas.

    Codex medicamentarius, seu pharmacopoea...

    Paris, apud Guillelmum Cavelier, 1748.

    Revised and enlarged edition (first 1638)...

    £2500

  11. McWILLIAM, James Ormiston.

    Medical History of the Expedition to the...

    London: C. Adlard for John Churchill, 1843.

    First edition. A classic treatise on the...

    £600

  12. MEAD, Richard.

    A Short Discourse concerning pestilential...

    London, printed [by William Bowyer] for...

    ‘Third edition’ of the most famous...

    £375

  13. [MEDICAL DICTIONARY.]

    Dictionary of medical terms, Latin-English...

    [S.l., early 1800s].

    An interesting manuscript compiled by an...

    £450

  14. MERCURIALE, Girolamo. 

    De arte gymnastica libri sex, in quibus...

    Venice, [Lucantonio II] Giunta, 1587. 

    Third edition of ‘the first illustrated...

    £2750

  15. MILES, William J., J.I. LUPTON, and Benjamin HERRING (illustrator).

    Modern practical Farriery: A complete Guide...

    London, Glasgow, and Edinburgh, William...

    Miles’s comprehensive and generously...

    £350

  16. MOREL DE RUBEMPRÉ, Joseph.

    Les secrets de la génération ou l’art...

    chez tous les libraires, [c. 1870].

    Joseph Morel de Rubempré’s (1812–86)...

    £150

  17. MÜLLER, Johann Baptist.

    Erfahrungssätze über die contagiöse...

    Mainz, Florian Kupferberg, 1821.

    A fine presentation copy of Müller’s...

    £350

  18. NEWTON, Isaac.

    Opticks: or, a Treatise of the Reflexions,...

    London, for Samuel Smith and Benjamin...

    First edition of Newton’s Opticks,...

    £70000

  19. NIGHTINGALE, Florence.

    Notes on Matters affecting the Health,...

    London, Harrison and Sons, 1858.

    First edition, printed for private circulation...

    £18000

  20. [NOVARA.]

    [Incipit:] Il vescovo di Novara...

    [Novara], 10 May 1805.

    An apparently unrecorded broadside from...

    £175