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. [PHARMACOPOEIA.]

    Pharmacopoea Taurinensis nunc primum edita...

    Turin, Jean-Baptiste Chais, 1736.

    First edition of this Turin pharmacopoeia,...

    £1800

  2. [PHARMACOPOEIA.]

    Apparatus medicaminum ad usum nosocomii...

    Pavia, Joseph Bolzani, [1790].

    Very rare first edition of this pharmacopoeia...

    £750

  3. POCOCKE, Richard. 

    A Description of the East, and some other...

    ...

    First edition, demy folio issue. A successful...

    £8000

  4. POPE, William.

    Manuscript arithmetic schoolbook.

    [Tiverton?] ‘Sunday Octr...

    A manuscript arithmetic schoolbook belonging...

    £850

  5. PORTA, Giambattista della.

    De humana physiognomonia … libri IIII;...

    Hanau, Wilhelm Antonius for [Frankfurt,]...

    The second Latin edition and the first...

    £1950

  6. QUETELET, M. A.

    Letters Addressed to H. R. H. the Grand...

    London, Charles & Edwin Layton, 1849.

    First edition in English. ‘This book...

    £550

  7. RANK, Otto.

    Der Mythus von der Geburt des Helden. Versuch...

    Leipzig and Vienna, Franz Deuticke, 1909.

    First edition of this psychoanalytical...

    £100

  8. REFELL, A. 

    Trugbilder: Eine Anleitung Erscheinungen,...

    Stuttgart, Rieger, 1865. 

    First German edition, rare, of this fascinating...

    £1250

  9. RUSH, John; Jacob F. SHEEK, editor.

    The Hand-Book to veterinary Homoeopathy,...

    New York & San Francisco, Boericke & Tafel,...

    Later American edition of a rare hand-book...

    £275

  10. SABATIER, Raphaël Bienvenu.

    Traité complet d’anatomie, ou description...

    Paris, Théophile Barrois, 1791.

    Third edition (first 1775) of this popular...

    £200

  11. SACCHI, Giovenale. 

    Del numero e delle misure delle corde musiche...

    Milan, [Giuseppe Mazzucchelli (colophon),]...

    First edition of Sacchi’s first work:...

    £850

  12. SACROBOSCO, Johannes de; Francesco GIUNTINI, editor.

    Sphaera Ioannis de Sacro Bosco emendata....

    Antwerp, heirs of Arnold Birckmann, 1566.

    A richly annotated and illustrated copy...

    £3000

  13. [SACROBOSCO, Johannes de.]

    CLAVIUS, Christophorus. In sphaeram Ioannis...

    Rome, Francesco Zanetti for Domenico Basa,...

    Third edition, the first to contain Clavius’s...

    £2500

  14. [SCHLOSSER, Johann Albert].  BODDAERT, Pieter.

    Epistola ad … Hier. Dav. Gaubium …...

    Amsterdam, apud M. Magerum, 1772.

    First and only edition of Boddaert’s...

    £500

  15. [SCHLOSSER, Johann Albert.] BODDAERT, Pieter. 

    Epistola ad virum celeberrimum Johannem...

    Amsterdam, apud Cornelium van Tongerlo, 1770.

    First and only edition of Boddaert’s...

    £500

  16. SCHRÖDINGER, Erwin, et al.

    A collection of offprints and papers from...

    1902–1961.

    A remarkable collection of offprints and...

    £45000

  17. SECHENOV, Ivan Mikhaylovich.

    Fisiologia nervnoy sistemy [in Cyrillic].

    St. Petersburg, 1866.

    first edition, rare, of Sechenov’s influential...

    £2750

  18. SHŌKOKU Dōjin 勝圀道人, pseud. [KAMURO An’e 禿安慧].

    護法新論 [Gohō shinron; ‘A New Treatise...

    [Japan], Seimeikan, (colophon:) Keiō 3 [1867].

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

    £1250

  19. SIMON, John, Sir.

    A volume of autograph letters received...

    Circa 1848-1887.

    An interesting collection of letters to...

    £1250

  20. SMITH, Robert. 

    The Universal Directory for taking alive...

    London, printed for the author, 1768. 

    First edition of a guide to catching and...

    £500