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. BISSON, Louis-Auguste. 

    ‘Wildfire’. 

    Paris, c. 1844. 

    An extraordinary equine portrait, testimony...

    £14500

  2. MARKHAM, Gervase.

    Cavalarice, or the English Horseman: Contayning...

    London, Edward Allde for Edward White,...

    A beautiful copy of the second edition,...

    £12000

  3. 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

  4. ALEXIS OF PIEDMONT (i.e. Girolamo RUSCELLI?).

    The Secretes of the reverende Maister Alexis...

    London, Henry Bynneman, for John Wight, 1568.

    The Secrets of Alexis of Piedmont in...

    £4500

  5. NEWTON, Isaac.

    Opuscula Mathematica, philosophica et philologica....

    Lausanne and Geneva, Bousquet & soc., 1744.

    First edition of Newton’s collected...

    £3500

  6. DEPARCIEUX, Antoine.

    Essai sur les probabilités de la durée...

    Paris, chez les frères Guerin, 1746.

    A large, crisp and illustrious copy...

    £3000

  7. WOLFERSTAN, Stanford.

    An Enquiry into the Causes of Diseases...

    London, Printed for Thomas Basset … 1692.

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

    £2850

  8. CIUCCI, Antonio Filippo.

    Promptuarium Chirurgicum in quo agitur...

    Macerata, Joseph Piccinus, 1679–1680.

    First edition, very rare, of this handbook...

    £2850

  9. SECHENOV, Ivan Mikhaylovich.

    Fisiologia nervnoy sistemy [in Cyrillic].

    St. Petersburg, 1866.

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

    £2750

  10. GIOVANNI BATTISTA DA NAPOLI. 

    Opera et trattato, che insegna molti dignissimi...

    [Venice, 1556?] 

    Rare second revised edition (first 1527)...

    £2750

  11. MERCURIALE, Girolamo. 

    De arte gymnastica libri sex, in quibus...

    Venice, [Lucantonio II] Giunta, 1587. 

    Third edition of ‘the first illustrated...

    £2750

  12. SALADO GARCES Y RIBERA, Francisco.

    Varias materias de diversas facultades,...

    Utrera, Juan Malpartida, 1655.

    Very rare first edition of this highly...

    £2500

  13. MARTINENQ, Jean Baptiste Thomas.

    Codex medicamentarius, seu pharmacopoea...

    Paris, apud Guillelmum Cavelier, 1748.

    Revised and enlarged edition (first...

    £2500

  14. BENZI, Ugo.

    Regole della sanità et della natura de...

    Turin, heirs of Giovanni Domenico Tarino, 1618.


    Scarce first edition of the vernacular...

    £2500

  15. [BRACKEN, Henry (attributed).]

    Ten Minutes Advice to every Gentleman going...

    London, for the author and sold by John...

    Very rare second edition of advice on...

    £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. MARINIS, Dominico de. 

    Dissertatio philosophico-medica de re monstrosa...

    Rome, typis Iacobi Mascardi ... sumptibus...

    First edition of this scarce dissertation...

    £1850

  18. [PHARMACOPOEIA.]

    Pharmacopoea Taurinensis nunc primum edita...

    Turin, Jean-Baptiste Chais, 1736.

    First edition of this Turin pharmacopoeia,...

    £1800

  19. [ANATOMY.]

    ‘Breve compendio anatomico’.

    [Italy, c. 1720.]

    A handsome set of apparently unpublished...

    £1750