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.-
LEE, Henry.
[Cover title:] The White Whale …
London, R. K. Burt & Co. … 1878.
First edition, an account of the white...
£225
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LEIGH, William R.
The Western Pony … Foreword by James L. Clark.
New York, Huntington Press, 1933.
First edition of Leigh’s finely printed...
£450
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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
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LIEBIG, Justus von.
Autograph letter to the publishers Heinrich...
Darmstadt, 16 September 1847.
Letter from the German chemist Justus von...
£750
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LINNAEUS, Carl (or von LINNÉ), and James JENKINSON (translator).
A generic and specific Description of British...
Ashburner, and Lancaster, A. Ashburner,...
First edition of this provincially printed...
£225
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LISTER, Joseph.
Three autograph letters, signed, to Sir...
London, 12 Park Crescent, Portland Place,...
Three letters by the great surgeon Joseph...
£750
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LOCATELLI, Lodovico.
Theatro d’Arcani … nel quale si tratta...
Milan, Gio. Pietro Ramellati, 1644.
First edition of Locatelli’s alchemical...
£2500
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[LONDON ZOO.] HARVEY, William (illustrator).
The Gardens and Menagerie of the Zoological...
Chiswick, Charles Wittingham, for London,...
First edition, second issue, of the first...
£175
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[LOO, Pieter van, attributed.]
156 watercolours of flowers, plants, and fruits.
[Holland, c. 1760–80].
A truly stunning collection of over 150...
£100000
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[LUXATION.]
Sammelband of twenty-six works on dislocation.
France, Germany, Italy, 1803–1882.
A collection of twenty-six rare works relating...
£750
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[MABBUT, George].
Sir Isaac Newton’s tables for renewing...
London, printed for Thomas Astley, 1742
Sixth edition, first published in 1686,...
£125
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MAGNER, D.
The new System of Educating Horses, including...
Philadelphia, Burk & M’Fetridge, 1881.
Twelfth edition of a well illustrated manual...
£65
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MANFREDI, Girolamo, and Pedro de RIBAS, translator.
Libro llamado El porque provechosissimo...
Alcalá de Henares, Juan Iñiguez de Lequerica,...
Extremely rare, early Alcalá-printed edition...
£1250
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MAPLET, John, and W.H. DAVIES (editor).
A greene Forest, or a naturall Historie,...
London, Hesperides Press, 1930.
Limited edition, numbered 31 of fifty copies...
£75
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MARINIS, Dominico de.
Dissertatio philosophico-medica de re monstrosa...
Rome, typis Iacobi Mascardi ... sumptibus...
First edition of this scarce dissertation...
£1850
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MARKHAM, Gervase.
Cavalarice, or the English Horseman: Contayning...
London, Edward Allde for Edward White,...
A beautiful copy of the second edition,...
£9750
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MARKHAM, ‘J.’ [Gervase], G. JEFFERIES, ‘and Experienced INDIANS’, [and C.D. LESHER (editor)].
The Citizen and Countryman’s experienced...
Chambersburg, Thomas J. Wright, [c. 1839].
Undated Chambersburg edition. Among the...
£250
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MARTINENQ, Jean Baptiste Thomas.
Codex medicamentarius, seu pharmacopoea...
Paris, apud Guillelmum Cavelier, 1748.
Revised and enlarged edition (first 1638)...
£2500
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MARZAGLIA, Gaetano.
Fascetto di pratiche matematiche spiegate...
Verona, Dionisio Ramanzini, 1780.
A lovely copy of the second edition, considerably...
£650
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McWILLIAM, James Ormiston.
Medical History of the Expedition to the...
London: C. Adlard for John Churchill, 1843.
First edition. A classic treatise on the...
£600