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. ADAMS, John Couch.

    The scientific Papers … edited by William...

    Cambridge, University Press, 1896 [– 1900].

    First edition of the posthumously published...

    £175

  2. BACON, Francis. 

    Francisci Baconi, Baronis de Verulamio,...

    London, Edward Griffin [and John Haviland]...

    First edition, first issue, a copy from...

    £3500

  3. CARON, Jean-Charles-Félix.

    Compendium institutionum philosophiae,...

    Paris, N. M. Tilliard, 1770.

    Very uncommon guide, by the Parisian surgeon...

    £750

  4. FINÉ, Oronce. 

    Opere di Orontio Fineo … divise in cinque...

    Venice, Francesco Franceschi, 1587. 

    First Italian edition of the works of...

    £2750

  5. GALILEI, Galileo, and Carlo MANOLESSI (editor). 

    Opere. 

    Bologna, heirs Dozza, [1655–] 1656. 

    A substantial volume of Galileo’s...

    £2500

  6. [GUARINI, Giambattista Lascaris].

    Ragionamenti filosofici.

    Rome, Gioacchino Puccinelli, 1785[-6].

    Only edition, very uncommon, of this collection...

    £875

  7. PONTANO, Giovanni.

    De rebus coelestibus.

    Naples, ‘ex officina Sigismundi Mayr...

    First editions of three works on cosmology,...

    £11000

  8. [ROYAL PRUSSIAN SOCIETY OF SCIENCES.] 

    Miscellanea berolinensia ad incrementum...

    Berlin, Johann Christoph Papen, 1723. 

    First continuation of Leibniz’s Miscellanea...

    £575

  9. [SACROBOSCO, Johannes de.] 

    CLAVIUS, Christophorus.  In sphaeram Ioannis...

    Rome, Francesco Zanetti for Domenico Basa,...

    Third edition, the first to contain...

    £2500

  10. SHELDRAKE, Timothy.

    The Causes of Heat and Cold in the several...

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

    First edition, rare on the market, of...

    £1275

  11. WELLS, Edward.

    The young Gentleman’s Astronomy, Chronology,...

    London, James & John Knapton, 1725.

    Third edition of Wells’s successful...

    £350