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. BOYLE, Robert.

    Tractatus … Ubi 1. Mira aëris …...

    London, Henry Herringman, 1671 [but printed...

    I. Second edition, very scarce. The first...

    £1750

  2. BRAUN, Adolphe.

    Untitled flower study (orchids).

    c. 1870?

    A stunning monumental flower study by Adolphe...

    £1200

  3. BRAUN, Adolphe.

    Untitled flower study (camellia).

    c. 1870?

    An exquisite monumental flower study by...

    £1200

  4. BREREWOOD, Edward. 

    Enquiries touching the Diversity of Languages,...

    London, Printed [by Eliot’s Court Press]...

    First edition.  Brerewood, professor of...

    £3000

  5. BROGGI, Ugo.

    Die Axiome der Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung.

    Göttingen, Dieterischen Universitäts-Buchdruckerei,...

    Rare first edition of this doctoral dissertation...

    £200

  6. BROWN, Thomas.

    A Manual of modern Farriery, embracing...

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

    First edition of this farriery manual,...

    £150

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

    Annals of Horsemanship, containing Accounts...

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

    Third edition of Bunbury’s satirical...

    £475

  8. [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

  9. [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

  10. [CAVALRY.]

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

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

    First edition of an encyclopædic work...

    £225

  11. [CHARTONNET, Antoine-François.] 

    Considerations sur les devoirs des personnes...

    Paris, chez Edme Couterot, 1695. 

    Rare first edition of this religious manual...

    £275

  12. [CHOLERA.]

    Bitte wegen der Cholera, welche bei den...

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

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

    £175

  13. CHOPPIN, Henri.

    La cavalerie française … illustrée...

    Paris, Garnier brothers, 1893.

    First edition of a well illustrated history...

    £175

  14. CHOYSELAT, Prudent le.

    Discours oeconomique, non moins utile que...

    Rouen, Martin le Menestrier 1612 [but...

    Early edition of an interesting ‘way...

    £550

  15. CIUCCI, Antonio Filippo.

    Promptuarium Chirurgicum in quo agitur...

    Macerata, Joseph Piccinus, 1679–1680.

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

    £2850

  16. COLONNA, Fabio.

    Φυτοβασανος, sive Plantarum...

    Naples, Orazio Salviani, 1592.

    First edition, a landmark in botanical...

    £4000

  17. COMBE, George.

    Phrenology applied to Painting and Sculpture.

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

    First edition, scarce in commerce. George...

    £350

  18. COPPERTHWAITE, R.H.

    The Turf and the Racehorse, describing...

    London, Day & Son, 1865.

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

    £160

  19. [CORFU.]

    Notificazione. Uffizio della segreteria...

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

    A seemingly unrecorded bilingual broadside,...

    £375

  20. COSTANZO, Gaetano.

    Qualche considerazione sui mezzi curativi...

    Palermo, Giovanni Lorsnaider, 1876.

    Very rare first and only edition of this...

    £350