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. TISSOT, Samuel August André David.

    Traité de l'épilepsie ...

    Paris, P.F. Didot, 1770.

    The scarce first edition of Tissot’s...

    £800

  2. [POETRY.] 

    ‘Trattato della [poesia Toscana]’. 

    [Asti?, 1780-1782.] 

    A manuscript treatise on the method of...

    £750

  3. BARBIERI, Lodovico.

    Trattato di psicologia nel quale si ragiona...

    Venice, Pietro Valvasense, 1756.

    First edition of the polymath Barbieri’s...

    £350

  4. REFELL, A. 

    Trugbilder: Eine Anleitung Erscheinungen,...

    Stuttgart, Rieger, 1865. 

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

    £1250

  5. COPPERTHWAITE, R.H.

    The Turf and the Racehorse, describing...

    London, Day & Son, 1865.

    First edition of a scarce account of mid-nineteenth-century...

    £160

  6. SMITH, Robert. 

    The Universal Directory for taking alive...

    London, printed for the author, 1768. 

    First edition of a guide to catching and...

    £500

  7. SALADO GARCES Y RIBERA, Francisco.

    Varias materias de diversas facultades,...

    Utrera, Juan Malpartida, 1655.

    Very rare first edition of this highly...

    £2500

  8. S[HEAFE], T[homas].

    Vindiciae senectutis, or, a Plea for Old-Age:...

    London, George Mither and are to be sold...

    First edition of a rare encomium on senectitude...

    £1250

  9. KIRAM, Zeki Hasmet. 

    Vocabularium anatomiae latine-turcice. ...

    Berlin, Morgen- und Abendland-Verlag, 1923.

    First edition of a comprehensive glossary...

    £375

  10. KIRAM, Zeki Hasmet. 

    Vocabularium anatomiae latine-arabice. ...

    Berlin, Morgen- und Abendland-Verlag, 1923.

    First edition of an uncommon glossary of...

    £375

  11. SIMON, John, Sir.

    A volume of autograph letters received...

    Circa 1848-1887.

    An interesting collection of letters to...

    £1250

  12. CREVE, Carl Caspar. 

    Vom Metallreize, einem neuentdeckten untrüglichen...

    Leipzig and Gera, Wilhelm Heinsius, 1796.

    First edition of this uncommon contribution...

    £550

  13. WALLIS, William.

    The Western Gentleman’s Farrier, containing...

    Troy (OH), John T. Tullis, 1838.

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

    £250

  14. LEIGH, William R.

    The Western Pony … Foreword by James L. Clark.

    New York, Huntington Press, 1933.

    First edition of Leigh’s finely printed...

    £450

  15. WINTER, Georg Simon; Valentin TRICHTER, editor.

    Wohlerfahrner Pferde-Arzt, welcher gründlich...

    Philadelphia, Edmund N. Schelly, 1840.

    First American edition of Winter’s important...

    £750