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. BINGLEY, William.

    Animal Biography, or authentic Anecdotes...

    London, R. Taylor & Co. for Richard Phillips,...

    Third edition of Bingley’s most popular...

    £175

  2. BLAINE, Delabere Pritchett.

    The Outlines of the veterinary Art, or...

    London, A. Strahan for T.N. Longman &...

    Very rare first edition, with contemporary...

    £1400

  3. BLAINE, Delabere Pritchett.

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

    London, Spottiswoodes and Shaw for Longman,...

    Second edition of Blaine’s comprehensive...

    £275

  4. BLANCHET, Joseph.

    L’art, ou les principes philosophiques...

    Paris, Augustin-Martin Lottin, Michel...

    First edition, though designated as the...

    £750

  5. BLANCHON, Jacques.

    Iacobi Blanchoni Ucessiensis adversus Ludovicum...

    Lyons, Jean de Tournes, 1550.

    First edition of a very rare work of sixteenth-century...

    £950

  6. BOTTO, Giuseppe Domenico.

    Observations microscopiques sur les mouvements...

    [Turin], Imprimerie Royale, [1840].

    An extremely rare offprint from the Memorie...

    £675

  7. BROWN, Thomas.

    A Manual of modern Farriery, embracing...

    London, James S. Virtue, [c. 1850?].

    First edition of this farriery manual,...

    £150

  8. [BUNBURY, Henry William.] ‘GAMBADO, Geoffrey’.

    Annals of Horsemanship, containing Accounts...

    London, W. Nicholson for W. Baynes, 1808.

    Third edition of Bunbury’s satirical...

    £475

  9. [BUNBURY, Henry William.] ‘GAMBADO, Geoffrey’.

    An Academy for grown Horsemen, containing...

    London, W. Dickinson, S. Hooper, and Messrs...

    Limited edition, reprinted from the first,...

    £85

  10. CASAUBON, Meric.

    A Treatise concerning Enthusiasme, as it...

    London, R.D. for Thomas Johnson, 1655...

    First edition of the first separate treatise...

    £1750

  11. [CASTILLO Y SORIANO, José del.]

    Amor á la creacion. Poesia dedicada á...

    Madrid, Sociedad de Tipógrafos, 1879.

    Very rare survival: a poem in twenty-four...

    £375

  12. [CAVALRY.]

    Cours d’équitation militaire, a l’usage...

    Saumur, H. Fournier for A. Degouy and...

    First edition of an encyclopædic work...

    £225

  13. [CHARTONNET, Antoine-François.] 

    Considerations sur les devoirs des personnes...

    Paris, chez Edme Couterot, 1695. 

    Rare first edition of this religious manual...

    £275

  14. [CHOLERA.]

    Bitte wegen der Cholera, welche bei den...

    [Württemberg: s.n., 11 October 1831].

    Cholera, the ‘plague’ of the nineteenth...

    £175

  15. CHOPPIN, Henri.

    La cavalerie française … illustrée...

    Paris, Garnier brothers, 1893.

    First edition of a well illustrated history...

    £175

  16. CHOYSELAT, Prudent le.

    Discours oeconomique, non moins utile que...

    Rouen, Martin le Menestrier 1612 [but...

    Early edition of an interesting ‘way...

    £550

  17. CIUCCI, Antonio Filippo.

    Promptuarium Chirurgicum in quo agitur...

    Macerata, Joseph Piccinus, 1679–1680.

    First edition, very rare, of this handbook...

    £2850

  18. COMBE, George.

    Phrenology applied to Painting and Sculpture.

    London, Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., 1855.

    First edition, scarce in commerce. George...

    £350

  19. COPPERTHWAITE, R.H.

    The Turf and the Racehorse, describing...

    London, Day & Son, 1865.

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

    £160

  20. [CORFU.]

    Notificazione. Uffizio della segreteria...

    Corfu, ‘en te typographia tes dioikeseos’,...

    A seemingly unrecorded bilingual broadside,...

    £375