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. POPE, William.

    Manuscript arithmetic schoolbook.

    [Tiverton?] ‘Sunday Octr...

    A manuscript arithmetic schoolbook belonging...

    £850

  2. PORTA, Giambattista della.

    De humana physiognomonia … libri IIII;...

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

    The second Latin edition and the first...

    £2500

  3. QUETELET, M. A.

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

    London, Charles & Edwin Layton, 1849.

    First edition in English. ‘This book...

    £550

  4. RAIMONDI, Eugenio.

    Delle caccie … libri Quattro, aggiuntovi’n...

    [Naples, Lazzaro Scoriggio, 1626.]

    Second edition, expanded and extended,...

    £2500

  5. RANK, Otto.

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

    Leipzig and Vienna, Franz Deuticke, 1909.

    First edition of this psychoanalytical...

    £100

  6. REFELL, A. 

    Trugbilder: Eine Anleitung Erscheinungen,...

    Stuttgart, Rieger, 1865. 

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

    £1250

  7. RICHARD of Wendover.

    Correctorium alchymiae … Das is reformierte...

    Strasbourg, Bernard Jobin, 1581.

    First edition of ‘a very rare collection’...

    £4500

  8. RIEMANN, Georg Friedrich Bernhard.

    Ein Beitrag zu den Untersuchungen über...

    Göttingen, Dieterichsche Buchhandlung, 1861.

    the very rare offprint issue from the abhandlungen...

    £750

  9. [ROYAL PRUSSIAN SOCIETY OF SCIENCES.]

    Miscellanea berolinensia ad incrementum...

    Berlin, Johann Christoph Papen, 1723.

    First continuation of Leibniz’s Miscellanea...

    £575

  10. 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

  11. SABATIER, Raphaël Bienvenu.

    Traité complet d’anatomie, ou description...

    Paris, Théophile Barrois, 1791.

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

    £200

  12. SACCHI, Giovenale. 

    Del numero e delle misure delle corde musiche...

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

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

    £850

  13. 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

  14. [SACROBOSCO, Johannes de.]

    CLAVIUS, Christophorus. In sphaeram Ioannis...

    Rome, Francesco Zanetti for Domenico Basa,...

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

    £2500

  15. SALADO GARCES Y RIBERA, Francisco.

    Varias materias de diversas facultades,...

    Utrera, Juan Malpartida, 1655.

    Very rare first edition of this highly...

    £2500

  16. SAUNIER, Jean de, and Gaspard de SAUNIER.

    La parfaite connoissance des chevaux, leur...

    The Hague, for the Author and sold by...

    First edition of Gaspard de Saunier’s...

    £1950

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

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

    Amsterdam, apud M. Magerum, 1772.

    First and only edition of Boddaert’s...

    £500

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

    Epistola ad virum celeberrimum Johannem...

    Amsterdam, apud Cornelium van Tongerlo, 1770.

    First and only edition of Boddaert’s...

    £500

  19. SCHRÖDINGER, Erwin, et al.

    A collection of offprints and papers from...

    1902–1961.

    A remarkable collection of offprints and...

    £45000

  20. SECHENOV, Ivan Mikhaylovich.

    Fisiologia nervnoy sistemy [in Cyrillic].

    St. Petersburg, 1866.

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

    £2750