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.-
ANSELMI, Giorgio, the younger.
Georgii Anselmi nepotis Epigrammaton libri...
Venice, Maffeo Pasini, September 1528.
The definitive edition of the epigrams...
£875
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EUCLID.
Στοιχειων βιβλ. ιε εκ...
Basel, Johannes Herwagen, September 1533.
Editio princeps of Euclid, the ‘oldest...
£18000
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ORIBASIUS.
Commentaria in Aphorismos Hippocratis …...
Paris, Simon de Colines, 1533.
First edition of this commentary on Hippocrates,...
£1750
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TARTAGLIA, Niccolò Fontana.
Quesiti, et inventioni diverse.
[(Colophon:) Venice, Venturino Ruffinelli...
First edition, annotated throughout by...
£6750
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BLANCHON, Jacques.
Iacobi Blanchoni Ucessiensis adversus Ludovicum...
Lyons, Jean de Tournes, 1550.
First edition of a very rare work of sixteenth-century...
£950
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ARISTOTLE; THEOPHRASTUS; Theodorus GAZA and Pietro ALCIONIO, translators.
Historiae. Cum de natura Animalium, tum...
Lyons, [Nicolas Bacquenois for] Guillaume...
A union of Aristotle on animals and Theophrastus...
£800
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[GALEN.] STEPHANUS.
Stephani Atheniensis philosophi explanationes...
Venice, Giunta, November 1554.
First edition of Agostino Gadaldini’s...
£950
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LANDI, Bassiano.
De origine et causa pestis Patauinae, anni...
Venice, apud Balthassarem Constantinum...
First edition of this important work investigating...
£1250
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BAKER, Humfrey.
The Well Sprynge of Sciences which teacheth...
London, Roland Hall for James Rowbotham, 1562.
The extremely rare first edition (one of...
£35000
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SACROBOSCO, Johannes de; Francesco GIUNTINI, editor.
Sphaera Ioannis de Sacro Bosco emendata....
Antwerp, heirs of Arnold Birckmann, 1566.
A richly annotated and illustrated copy...
£3000
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[SACROBOSCO, Johannes de.]
CLAVIUS, Christophorus. In sphaeram Ioannis...
Rome, Francesco Zanetti for Domenico Basa,...
Third edition, the first to contain Clavius’s...
£2500
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MERCURIALE, Girolamo.
De arte gymnastica libri sex, in quibus...
Venice, [Lucantonio II] Giunta, 1587.
Third edition of ‘the first illustrated...
£2750
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FINÉ, Oronce.
Opere di Orontio Fineo … divise in cinque...
Venice, Francesco Franceschi, 1587.
First edition in Italian of the works of...
£2750
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PORTA, Giambattista della.
De humana physiognomonia … libri IIII;...
Hanau, Wilhelm Antonius for [Frankfurt,]...
The second Latin edition and the first...
£1950
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BREREWOOD, Edward.
Enquiries touching the Diversity of Languages,...
London, [Eliot’s Court Press] for John...
First edition. Brerewood, professor of...
£2750
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MARKHAM, Gervase.
Cavalarice, or the English Horseman: Contayning...
London, Edward Allde for Edward White,...
A beautiful copy of the second edition,...
£9750
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BENZI, Ugo; Giovanni Lodovico BERTALDI, commentator.
Regole della sanità et della natura de...
Turin, heirs of Giovanni Domenico Tarino, 1618.
Scarce first vernacular edition of the...
£1750
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LOCATELLI, Lodovico.
Theatro d’Arcani … nel quale si tratta...
Milan, Gio. Pietro Ramellati, 1644.
First edition of Locatelli’s alchemical...
£2500
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SMITH, Samuel.
Aditus ad logicam. In usum eorum qui primò...
Oxford, Henry Hall for Richard Davis, 1649.
A sammelband of two seventeenth-century...
£675
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VISSCHER, Nicolaes [I].
...
Amsterdam, Nicolaus [I] Visscher, 1659.
First and only edition of this rare...
£3750