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.-
CIUCCI, Antonio Filippo.
Promptuarium Chirurgicum in quo agitur...
Macerata, Joseph Piccinus, 1679–1680.
First edition, very rare, of this handbook...
£2850
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ACTON, William.
Prostitution, considered in its moral,...
London, [Savill and Edwards for] John...
First edition of this medico-social analysis...
£1250
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COSTANZO, Gaetano.
Qualche considerazione sui mezzi curativi...
Palermo, Giovanni Lorsnaider, 1876.
Very rare first and only edition of this...
£350
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GAYOT DE PITAVAL, [François].
Question d’estat: fille reclamée par...
Paris, Nicolas le Gras, 1716.
Very rare first edition of this account...
£350
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[JOCKEY CLUB.] HERVEY, John.
Racing in America, 1665-1865 … written...
New York, Scribner Press for the Jockey...
First edition, limited, numbered 323 of...
£720
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[JOCKEY CLUB.] HERVEY, John.
Racing in America, 1922-1936, written for...
New York, Scribner Press for the Jockey...
First edition of the first volume to be...
£350
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[JOCKEY CLUB.] KELLEY, Robert F.
Racing in America, 1937-1959, written for...
New York, North River Press for the Jockey...
First edition, limited, numbered 474 of...
£180
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BERRYAT, Jean, et al., editors.
Receuil de Mémoires, ou Collection de...
Dijon, Auxerre, Paris and Liège, F. Desventes,...
The scarce first collected edition of these...
£6000
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DUTROCHET, Henri.
Recherches sur l’endosmose et sur la...
[Paris, imprimerie de Veuve Thuau, 1832.]
An interesting article on endosmosis by...
£175
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[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
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BENZI, Ugo; Giovanni Lodovico BERTALDI, commentator.
Regole della sanità et della natura de...
Turin, heirs of Giovanni Domenico Tarino, 1618.
Scarce first vernacular edition of the...
£2500
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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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MEAD, Richard.
A Short Discourse concerning pestilential...
London, printed [by William Bowyer] for...
‘Third edition’ of the most famous...
£375
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STEWART, John; A. B. ALLEN, editor.
Stable Economy: A Treatise on the Management...
New York, D. Appleton & Co., and Philadelphia,...
First American edition of Stewart’s treatise....
£175
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[GALEN.] STEPHANUS.
Stephani Atheniensis philosophi explanationes...
Venice, Giunta, November 1554.
First edition of Agostino Gadaldini’s...
£950
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[WINSLOW, Jacob Benignus.]
Terrible supplice et cruel désespoir des...
[Paris, Joseph Bullot, 1752].
Extremely rare first edition of this anonymous...
£850
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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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ASTRUC, Jean.
Tractatus de motus fermentativi causa novam...
Montpellier, Honoratus Pech, 1702.
A dissertation on fermentation published...
£500
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SABATIER, Raphaël Bienvenu.
Traité complet d’anatomie, ou description...
Paris, Théophile Barrois, 1791.
Third edition (first 1775) of this popular...
£200