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. 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

  2. SIMON, John, Sir.

    A volume of autograph letters received...

    Circa 1848-1887.

    An interesting collection of letters to...

    £1250

  3. SMITH, Robert. 

    The Universal Directory for taking alive...

    London, printed for the author, 1768. 

    First edition of a guide to catching and...

    £500

  4. [SMOLLETT, Tobias George.]

    Autograph letter, signed, from Charles...

    [London, undated, c.1850].

    A signed autograph letter, from one Charles...

    £225

  5. SPENCER, Herbert.

    The Study of Sociology. [The International...

    New York, Appleton, 1874.

    First edition thus, the first American...

    £100

  6. SQUIRES, Richard F.

    Typescript letter to John Derek Smith,...

    dated Gladsaxe [Denmark], December 7, 1965.

    Squires’ main research was into multiple...

    £180

  7. STATUTA COLLEGII DD.

    Almae Urbis Medicorum ex antiquis Romanorum...

    Rome, Printer of the Apostolic Chamber,...

    The very rare enlarged and updated issue...

    £550

  8. STENUIT, Alfred, and G. de VOGHEL.

    Manuel de sauvetage dans les mines. Notions...

    Tamines, Duculot-Roulin, 1909.

    Only edition of this attractively illustrated...

    £350

  9. 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

  10. STIRLING, A.M.W.

    Ghosts vivisected. An impartial inquiry...

    London, Robert Hale, 1957.

    First edition, a very readable account...

    £40

  11. SULLY, James.

    Illusions, a psychological study. [The...

    London, Kegan Paul, 1881.

    First edition of Sully’s study of perception,...

    £100

  12. SURTEES, Robert Smith.

    The Horseman’s Manual, being a Treatise...

    London, M.A. Pittman for Alfred Miller, 1831.

    First edition of Surtees’s first work,...

    £1250

  13. SWOBODA, Hermann.

    Die Perioden des menschlichen Organismus:...

    Leipzig, Deuticke, 1904.

    First editions, all rare, the first two...

    £200

  14. [SYPHILIS.]

    Della tabe dorsale ovvero della cura della...

    Venice, Graziosi, 1785.

    First Italian translation, uncommon, of...

    £135

  15. [TACCONI, Gaetano.]

    ‘Medicae inst[ructio]nes’, ‘Tractatus...

    [Bologna, Italy,] 1739.

    An extensive manuscript compendium of apparently...

    £1250

  16. TARTAGLIA, Niccolò Fontana.

    Quesiti, et inventioni diverse.

    [(Colophon:) Venice, Venturino Ruffinelli...

    First edition, annotated throughout by...

    £6750

  17. THOMPSON, J.

    Modern Practice of Farriery, or complete...

    Philadelphia, Joseph Crukshank, 1807.

    First Philadelphia (second American) edition....

    £250

  18. TISSOT, Samuel August André David.

    Traité de l'épilepsie ...

    Paris, P.F. Didot, 1770.

    The scarce first edition of Tissot’s...

    £800

  19. [VACCINATION.]

    Agli abitanti del dipartimento dell’Ombrone...

    Siena, Onorato Porri, 1808.

    A seemingly unrecorded broadside promoting...

    £650

  20. VILLA, Antonio, and Giovanni Battista VILLA. 

    Dispositio systematica conchyliarum terrestrium...

    Milan, ex typis Borroni et Scotti, 1841. 

    First edition of this catalogue of molluscs...

    £275