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. SMITH, Robert. 

    The Universal Directory for taking alive...

    London, printed for the author, 1768. 

    First edition of a guide to catching and...

    £500

  2. [SMOLLETT, Tobias George.]

    Autograph letter, signed, from Charles...

    [London, undated, c.1850].

    A signed autograph letter, from one Charles...

    £225

  3. STATUTA COLLEGII DD.

    Almae Urbis Medicorum ex antiquis Romanorum...

    Rome, Printer of the Apostolic Chamber,...

    The very rare enlarged and updated issue...

    £550

  4. STENUIT, Alfred, and G. de VOGHEL.

    Manuel de sauvetage dans les mines. Notions...

    Tamines, Duculot-Roulin, 1909.

    Only edition of this attractively illustrated...

    £350

  5. STEWART, John; A. B. ALLEN, editor.

    Stable Economy: A Treatise on the Management...

    New York, D. Appleton & Co., and Philadelphia,...

    First American edition of Stewart’s treatise....

    £175

  6. SULLY, James.

    Illusions, a psychological study. [The...

    London, Kegan Paul, 1881.

    First edition of Sully’s study of perception,...

    £100

  7. SURTEES, Robert Smith.

    The Horseman’s Manual, being a Treatise...

    London, M.A. Pittman for Alfred Miller, 1831.

    First edition of Surtees’s first work,...

    £1250

  8. SWOBODA, Hermann.

    Die Perioden des menschlichen Organismus:...

    Leipzig, Deuticke, 1904.

    First editions, all rare, the first two...

    £200

  9. [SYPHILIS.]

    Della tabe dorsale ovvero della cura della...

    Venice, Graziosi, 1785.

    First Italian translation, uncommon, of...

    £135

  10. [TACCONI, Gaetano.]

    ‘Medicae inst[ructio]nes’, ‘Tractatus...

    [Bologna, Italy,] 1739.

    An extensive manuscript compendium of apparently...

    £1250

  11. THOMPSON, J.

    Modern Practice of Farriery, or complete...

    Philadelphia, Joseph Crukshank, 1807.

    First Philadelphia (second American) edition....

    £250

  12. TISSOT, Samuel August André David.

    Traité de l'épilepsie ...

    Paris, P.F. Didot, 1770.

    The scarce first edition of Tissot’s...

    £800

  13. [VACCINATION.]

    Agli abitanti del dipartimento dell’Ombrone...

    Siena, Onorato Porri, 1808.

    A seemingly unrecorded broadside promoting...

    £650

  14. WALLIS, William.

    The Western Gentleman’s Farrier, containing...

    Troy (OH), John T. Tullis, 1838.

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

    £250

  15. WHITE, James.

    A Compendium of the veterinary Art, containing...

    London, J. Badcock and Longman & Co.,...

    Sixth edition. Evidently a successful text,...

    £225

  16. WHITE, James.

    A Compendium of the veterinary Art, containing...

    Canterbury, W. Bristow for J. Badcock,...

    First edition of one of the first works...

    £275

  17. [WINSLOW, Jacob Benignus.]

    Terrible supplice et cruel désespoir des...

    [Paris, Joseph Bullot, 1752].

    Extremely rare first edition of this anonymous...

    £850

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

    Wohlerfahrner Pferde-Arzt, welcher gründlich...

    Philadelphia, Edmund N. Schelly, 1840.

    First American edition of Winter’s important...

    £750

  19. WOOD, John.

    A new compendious Treatise of Farriery,...

    London, Hewett for the author, and sold...

    First edition of a treatise on farriery...

    £650

  20. ZAND, Nathalie.

    [Drop-head title:] Les olives inférieures...

    [Paris, 31 December 1927.]

    Scarce offprint of a work on the inferior...

    £550