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.-
NEWTON, Isaac.
Opticks: or, a Treatise of the Reflexions,...
London, for Samuel Smith and Benjamin...
First edition of Newton’s Opticks,...
£70000
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ARCHIMEDES.
Τα μεχρι νυν σωζομενα,...
Basel, Johannes Herwagen, [(colophon):...
Editio princeps of the works of...
£45000
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ALLIONI, Carlo.
Flora Pedemontana sive enumeratio methodica...
Turin, Giovanni Michele Briolo, 1785.
First edition of the earliest Italian regional...
£30000
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NIGHTINGALE, Florence.
Notes on Matters affecting the Health,...
London, Harrison and Sons, 1858.
First edition, printed for private circulation...
£18000
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[LOO, Pieter van, attributed.]
156 watercolours of flowers, plants, and fruits.
[Holland, c. 1760–80].
A truly stunning collection of over 150...
£100000
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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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POCOCKE, Richard.
A Description of the East, and some other...
...
First edition, demy folio issue. A successful...
£8000
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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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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
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EUCLID; Jean MAGNIEN and Stephanus GRACILIS, editors.
Euclidis elementorum libri XV Graece et...
Paris, Guillaume Cavellat, 1557.
First edition of Euclid’s Elements...
£5500
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RICHARDUS ANGLICUS.
Correctorium alchymiae ... Das is reformierte...
Strasbourg, Bernard Jobin, 1581.
First edition of ‘a very rare collection’...
£4500
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COLONNA, Fabio.
Φυτοβασανος, sive Plantarum...
Naples, Orazio Salviani, 1592.
First edition, a landmark in botanical...
£4000
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VISSCHER, Nicolaes [I].
...
Amsterdam, Nicolaus [I] Visscher, 1659.
First and only edition of this rare...
£3750
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WALCOTT, John.
The Figures, Description, and History of...
London, W. Justins for the Author, and...
First and only edition, very rare, published...
£3500
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L’HÔPITAL, Guillaume François Antoine, marquis de.
Analyse des infiniment petits, pour l’intelligence...
Paris, François Montalant, 1715.
Second edition (first 1696) of l’Hôpital’s...
£3500
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HUMBLOT, F.
Journal de voyage ...
France, June–September 1866.
A handsome manuscript on mining engineering,...
£3500
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BACON, Francis.
Francisci Baconi, Baronis de Verulamio,...
London, Edward Griffin [and John Haviland]...
First edition, first issue, a copy from...
£3500
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BREREWOOD, Edward.
Enquiries touching the Diversity of Languages,...
London, Printed [by Eliot’s Court Press]...
First edition. Brerewood, professor of...
£3000
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DEPARCIEUX, Antoine.
Essai sur les probabilités de la durée...
Paris, chez les frères Guerin, 1746.
A large, crisp, and illustrious copy of...
£3000
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CIUCCI, Antonio Filippo.
Promptuarium Chirurgicum in quo agitur...
Macerata, Joseph Piccinus, 1679–1680.
First edition, very rare, of this handbook...
£2850