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. [DE LA GUTHÈRE.]

    Du bon usage des eaux de Baignieres.

    Agen, Antoine Bru … 1680.

    Scarce second edition, revised, a guide...

    £600

  2. DE NASCA, Giuseppe.

    Intorno all’uso del laudano concentrato...

    Naples, Giovanni Battista Seguim, 1828.

    Very rare tract on the use of concentrated...

    £550

  3. DIKREITER, Otto, and Renée SINTENIS (illustrator).

    Du und Dein Pferd: Ein anmutiges, belehrendes,...

    Berlin, Königsberg, & Leipzig, Kanter...

    First edition (seventh to tenth thousand)...

    £80

  4. DONNOLI, Francesco Alfonso.

    De iis, qui semel in die cibum capiunt....

    Venice, Benedetto Miloco, 1674.

    First edition, an uncut copy of Donnoli’s...

    £1450

  5. DUTROCHET, Henri. 

    Recherches sur l’endosmose et sur la...

    [Paris, imprimerie de Veuve Thuau, 1832.] 

    An interesting article on endosmosis by...

    £175

  6. ÉCOLE DE MEDECINE DE MONTPELLIER.

    A collection of eighty-seven doctoral dissertations...

    Montpellier, various publishers, 1800–1810.

    An extraordinary collection, bound up very...

    £1250

  7. EMSWORTH, D.

    Le cheval & le chien.

    Brussels, widow Parent & Son, and Paris,...

    Very rare French treatise on horses and...

    £375

  8. [FIRST AID – RAILWAYS.] 

    Ministère des chemins de fer, postes et...

    Ghent, F.& R. Buyck, 1912. 

    First separate edition, seemingly unrecorded,...

    £195

  9. FLEMING, Alexander, Sir.

    On the antibacterial Action of Cultures...

    [London, H.K. Lewis & Co., 1944.]

    Second edition of Fleming’s study announcing...

    £4000

  10. FLORIO, Blasco.

    Lettera sopra alcuni ostacoli che la logica,...

    Messina, Giuseppe Fiumara, 1825.

    Very rare first edition of this work on...

    £475

  11. GABARO, Antonio. 

    Alla pregiatissima Signora Domenica Schiavon...

    Padua, ‘Nella Tipografia del Seminario’,...

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

    £380

  12. [GALEN.] STEPHANUS.   

    Stephani Atheniensis philosophi explanationes...

    Venice, Giunta, November 1554. 

    First edition of Agostino Gadaldini’s...

    £950

  13. 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

  14. GAYOT DE PITAVAL, [François].

    Question d’estat: fille reclamée par...

    Paris, Nicolas le Gras, 1716.

    Very rare first edition of this account...

    £350

  15. GIBELLI, Giacinto. 

    Due dissertazioni sopra li vantaggi, che...

    Genoa, Paolo Scionico, 1767. 

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

    £600

  16. GOELICKE, Andreas Ottomar.

    Disputatio physica experimentalis exhibens...

    Halle, Johann Montag, [1704].

    Scarce academic disputation on experimental...

    £275

  17. [GRANT, Charles, Vicomte de Vaux.]

    Recueil d’Essais, ou précis des opinions,...

    A Londres: De l’Imprimerie de T. Spilsbury...

    An interesting tract volume, containing...

    £1500

  18. [GROUX, Charles Jacques (engraver).]

    Planches relatives a l’instruction concernant...

    Paris, Magimel, ‘An X’ [1801].

    Second edition, expanded, of a set of French...

    £275

  19. [HALKERSTON, Helenus.]

    Considerations on Man, in his natural as...

    Edinburgh: Printed by A. Donaldson and...

    First edition, a presentation copy ‘from...

    £600

  20. HERNANDEZ, Joseph François Didace.

    Essai sur le typhus ou sur les fièvres...

    Paris, Cellot for Méquignon-Marvis, 1816.

    First edition by the physiologist and pathologist...

    £550