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. FREUD, Sigmund.

    Moses and monotheism [translated from the...

    New York, Alfred A, Knopf, 1939.

    First American edition of the last lifetime...

    £80

  2. GABARO, Antonio. 

    Alla pregiatissima Signora Domenica Schiavon...

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

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

    £380

  3. [GALEN.] STEPHANUS.   

    Stephani Atheniensis philosophi explanationes...

    Venice, Giunta, November 1554. 

    First edition of Agostino Gadaldini’s...

    £950

  4. GARSAULT, François-Alexandre de.

    Le nouveau parfait maréchal, ou la connoissance...

    Paris, Moreau for Hochereau, 1770.

    Fourth edition of one of the most popular...

    £650

  5. GASPARIN, Agénor Étienne, Comte de.

    Des tables tournantes du surnaturel en...

    Paris, Bonaventure and Ducessois for E....

    Scarce first edition of Gasparin’s early...

    £1500

  6. GAYOT DE PITAVAL, [François].

    Question d’estat: fille reclamée par...

    Paris, Nicolas le Gras, 1716.

    Very rare first edition of this account...

    £350

  7. GIBELLI, Giacinto. 

    Due dissertazioni sopra li vantaggi, che...

    Genoa, Paolo Scionico, 1767. 

    First and only edition, rare, of these...

    £600

  8. GOELICKE, Andreas Ottomar.

    Disputatio physica experimentalis exhibens...

    Halle, Johann Montag, [1704].

    Scarce academic disputation on experimental...

    £275

  9. [GRANT, Charles, Vicomte de Vaux.]

    Recueil d’Essais, ou précis des opinions,...

    A Londres: De l’Imprimerie de T. Spilsbury...

    An interesting tract volume, containing...

    £1500

  10. [GROUX, Charles Jacques (engraver).]

    Planches relatives a l’instruction concernant...

    Paris, Magimel, ‘An X’ [1801].

    Second edition, expanded, of a set of French...

    £275

  11. [GUARINI, Giambattista Lascaris].

    Ragionamenti filosofici.

    Rome, Gioacchino Puccinelli, 1785[-6].

    Only edition, very uncommon, of this collection...

    £875

  12. [HALKERSTON, Helenus.]

    Considerations on Man, in his natural as...

    Edinburgh: Printed by A. Donaldson and...

    First edition, a presentation copy ‘from...

    £600

  13. HARDY, Campbell.

    Sporting Adventures in the New World; or,...

    London, Hurst and Blackett, 1855.

    First edition of this most interesting...

    £575

  14. HERNANDEZ, Joseph François Didace.

    Essai sur le typhus ou sur les fièvres...

    Paris, Cellot for Méquignon-Marvis, 1816.

    First edition by the physiologist and pathologist...

    £550

  15. HERSHBERGER, H.R.

    The Horseman: A Work on Horsemanship, containing...

    New York, R. Craighead for Henry G. Langley,...

    First edition of a rare military manual...

    £450

  16. HIPPOCRATES.

    The Eight Sections of Hippocrates Aphorismes...

    London, W. G. for Rob. Crofts, 1665.

    First edition of this translation of the...

    £850

  17. HIRSCH, William.

    Genius and Degeneration. A Psychological Study.

    New York, Appleton, 1896.

    First edition in English, translated...

    £150

  18. HODSON, Thomas.

    The Accomplished Tutor; or, complete System...

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

    Second edition, revised, of a voluminous...

    £300

  19. HOPKINS, William. 

    Address delivered at the Hull Meeting of...

    London, Taylor & Francis, 1853. 

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

    £350

  20. HUMBLOT, F.

    Journal de voyage ...

    France, June–September 1866.

    A handsome manuscript on mining engineering,...

    £3500