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. [LOO, Pieter van, attributed.]

    156 watercolours of flowers, plants, and fruits.

    [Holland, c. 1760–80].

    A truly stunning collection of over 150...

    £100000

  2. [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

  3. HODSON, Thomas.

    The Accomplished Tutor; or, complete System...

    London, H. D. Symonds, and Vernor and...

    Second edition, revised, of a voluminous...

    £300

  4. HOPKINS, William. 

    Address delivered at the Hull Meeting of...

    London, Taylor & Francis, 1853. 

    First edition, an 1853 Address to the British...

    £350

  5. [VACCINATION.]

    Agli abitanti del dipartimento dell’Ombrone...

    Siena, Onorato Porri, 1808.

    A seemingly unrecorded broadside promoting...

    £650

  6. GABARO, Antonio. 

    Alla pregiatissima Signora Domenica Schiavon...

    Padua, ‘Nella Tipografia del Seminario’,...

    First and only edition, very rare, of a...

    £380

  7. STATUTA COLLEGII DD.

    Almae Urbis Medicorum ex antiquis Romanorum...

    Rome, Printer of the Apostolic Chamber,...

    The very rare enlarged and updated issue...

    £550

  8. [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

  9. L’HÔPITAL, Guillaume François Antoine, marquis de

    Analyse des infiniment petits, pour l’intelligence...

    Paris, François Montalant, 1715. 

    Second edition (first 1696) of l’Hôpital’s...

    £3500

  10. BINGLEY, William.

    Animal Biography, or authentic Anecdotes...

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

    Third edition of Bingley’s most popular...

    £175

  11. CUVIER, Georges, and Edward BLYTH (editor).

    The animal Kingdom, arranged after its...

    London, William S. Orr & Co., 1851.

    Third Blyth edition of Cuvier’s Règne...

    £175

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

    Annals of Horsemanship, containing Accounts...

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

    Third edition of Bunbury’s satirical...

    £475

  13. [PHARMACOPOEIA.]

    Apparatus medicaminum ad usum nosocomii...

    Pavia, Joseph Bolzani, [1790].

    Very rare first edition of this pharmacopoeia...

    £750

  14. [PARACELSUS.

    Aureoli Theophrasti Paracelsi eremitae...

    [Basel, Pietro Perna, 1575.]

    The second half of a two-volume edition...

    £1750

  15. ADORNO, Theodor W., Else FRENKEL-BRUNSWIK, Daniel J. LEVINSON, and R. Nevitt SANFORD

    The Authoritarian Personality.

    New York, Harper Brothers, 1950.

    First edition of this groundbreaking work...

    £225

  16. LIEBIG, Justus von.

    Autograph letter to the publishers Heinrich...

    Darmstadt, 16 September 1847.

    Letter from the German chemist Justus von...

    £750

  17. VISSCHER, Nicolaes [I]. 

    ...

    Amsterdam, Nicolaus [I] Visscher, 1659. 

    First and only edition of this rare...

    £3750

  18. [ARISTOTLE – ELIAS.]

    Biblioteca Armeno-Georgica. I. Commentarii...

    St Petersburg, Academiae Imperialis Scientarum,...

    Uncommon edition, published by the Imperial...

    £250

  19. [CHOLERA.]

    Bitte wegen der Cholera, welche bei den...

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

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

    £175

  20. [ANATOMY.]

    ‘Breve compendio anatomico’.

    [Italy, c. 1720.]

    A handsome set of apparently unpublished...

    £1750