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. FLEMING, Alexander, Sir.

    On the antibacterial Action of Cultures...

    [London, H.K. Lewis & Co., 1944.]

    Second edition of Fleming’s study announcing...

    £4000

  2. GARSAULT, François-Alexandre de.

    Le nouveau parfait maréchal, ou la connoissance...

    Paris, Moreau for Hochereau, 1770.

    Fourth edition of one of the most popular...

    £650

  3. HARDY, Campbell.

    Sporting Adventures in the New World; or,...

    London, Hurst and Blackett, 1855.

    First edition of this most interesting...

    £575

  4. HOPKINS, William. 

    Address delivered at the Hull Meeting of...

    London, Taylor & Francis, 1853. 

    First edition, an 1853 Address to the British...

    £350

  5. LEE, Henry.

    [Cover title:] The White Whale …

    London, R. K. Burt & Co. … 1878.

    First edition, an account of the white...

    £225

  6. LINNAEUS, Carl (or von LINNÉ), and James JENKINSON (translator). 

    A generic and specific Description of British...

    Ashburner, and Lancaster, A. Ashburner,...

    First edition of this provincially printed...

    £225

  7. [LONDON ZOO.] HARVEY, William (illustrator).

    The Gardens and Menagerie of the Zoological...

    Chiswick, Charles Wittingham, for London,...

    First edition, second issue, of the first...

    £175

  8. [LOO, Pieter van, attributed.]

    156 watercolours of flowers, plants, and fruits.

    [Holland, c. 1760–80].

    A truly stunning collection of over 150...

    £100000

  9. MEGUSCHER, Francesco.

    Memoria … in risposta al quesito additare...

    Milan, presso l’I.R. Istituto, 1847.

    Uncommon first edition of this comprehensive...

    £950

  10. MILL, John Stuart, and Edward Livingston YOUMANS.

    Новѣйшее образованiе:...

    St Petersburg, Izdanie “Russkoi knizhnoi...

    First edition in Russian of these two works,...

    £100

  11. MORTON, John.

    The natural History of Northampton-Shire,...

    London, R. Knaplock and R. Wilkin, 1712.

    First edition of Morton’s systematic...

    £775

  12. POCOCKE, Richard. 

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

    ...

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

    £8000

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

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

    Amsterdam, apud M. Magerum, 1772.

    First and only edition of Boddaert’s...

    £500

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

    Epistola ad virum celeberrimum Johannem...

    Amsterdam, apud Cornelium van Tongerlo, 1770.

    First and only edition of Boddaert’s...

    £500

  15. SPENCER, Herbert.

    The Study of Sociology. [The International...

    New York, Appleton, 1874.

    First edition thus, the first American...

    £100

  16. SQUIRES, Richard F.

    Typescript letter to John Derek Smith,...

    dated Gladsaxe [Denmark], December 7, 1965.

    Squires’ main research was into multiple...

    £180

  17. SWOBODA, Hermann.

    Die Perioden des menschlichen Organismus:...

    Leipzig, Deuticke, 1904.

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

    £200

  18. 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

  19. VISSCHER, Nicolaes [I]. 

    ...

    Amsterdam, Nicolaus [I] Visscher, 1659. 

    First and only edition of this rare...

    £3750

  20. WALCOTT, John. 

    The Figures, Description, and History of...

    London, W. Justins for the Author, and...

    First and only edition, very rare, published...

    £3500