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. HURRY, Thomas.

    Tables of interest, from one pound to five...

    [Yarmouth], Printed for the author, and...

    One of two editions published in 1786,...

    £150

  2. [INTERSEX.]

    Three pamphlets.

    Paris, 1892–1920.

    A collection of rare French pamphlets on...

    £450

  3. JEVONS, William Stanley.

    Studies in deductive logic. A manual for...

    London, Macmillan and Co., 1880.

    First edition. Jevons had been preoccupied...

    £175

  4. JEVONS, William Stanley.

    ‘Preliminary account of certain logical...

    London, Longman, Green, Reader, & Dyer;...

    First edition of the account of Professor...

    £350

  5. [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

  6. [JOCKEY CLUB.] HERVEY, John.

    Racing in America, 1665-1865 … written...

    New York, Scribner Press for the Jockey...

    First edition, limited, numbered 323 of...

    £720

  7. [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

  8. [KEENE, Marian].

    The History of a tame Robin. Supposed to...

    London: Printed for Darton, Harvey, and...

    First and only edition. The tame Robin...

    £325

  9. KNAPP, Georg Friedrich.

    Die neuern Ansichten über Moralstatistik …

    Jena, Friedrich Mauke, 1871.

    First edition of a lecture given on 29...

    £250

  10. [KNIGHT, Charles.]

    The Elephant, principally viewed in Relation...

    London, William Clowes & Sons for Charles...

    First editions of treatises on the elephant...

    £275

  11. KOCH, Manfred (pr.), Primo SCHLECHTEN and Feliciano SCHARRER (resp.).

    Philosophia rationalis sive logica centum...

    Augsburg, Afra Sturmin, 1695.

    A good copy of this rare dissertation from...

    £275

  12. KÖLLIKER, Albert von.

    Handbuch der Gewebelehre des Menschen für...

    Leipzig, Wilhelm Engelmann, 1852.

    First edition, scarce. ‘A Swiss by birth,...

    £650

  13. [KRÜDENER, Barbara Juliane de Vietinghoff, Freifrau von.]

    Valérie, ou Lettres de Gustave de Linar...

    Paris, Henrichs, 1804.

    Rare first edition of Valérie,...

    £400

  14. KÜLPE, Oswald.

    Grundriss der Psychologie. Auf experimenteller...

    Leipzig, Wilhelm Engelmann, 1893. 

    First edition of this important work in...

    £400

  15. LAEMMEL, Rudolf.

    Untersuchungen über die Ermittlung von...

    Zurich, Jean Frey, 1904.

    The doctoral dissertation of Rudolf Laemmel,...

    £250

  16. LANDI, Bassiano.

    De origine et causa pestis Patauinae, anni...

    Venice, apud Balthassarem Constantinum...

    First edition of this important work investigating...

    £1250

  17. LAWRENCE, Richard.

    The complete Farrier and British Sportsman,...

    London, W. Clowes for Thomas Kelly, [c. 1816].

    Likely first edition, dedicated ‘to the...

    £250

  18. LAWRENCE, Richard.

    The complete Farrier and British Sportsman,...

    London, W. Clowes for Thomas Kelly, [c. 1823].

    A sporting compendium, dedicated ‘to...

    £180

  19. LEE, Edwin.

    The Principal Baths of Germany [– The...

    London, Whittaker & Cp., Paris, Galignani...

    First edition, scarce, of Edwin Lee’s...

    £350

  20. LEE, Henry.

    [Cover title:] The White Whale …

    London, R. K. Burt & Co. … 1878.

    First edition, an account of the white...

    £225