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. ASTRUC, Jean. 

    Tractatus de motus fermentativi causa novam...

    Montpellier, Honoratus Pech, 1702. 

    A dissertation on fermentation published...

    £500

  2. [BALLANTINE, E.]

    Natural History of Quadrupeds, for Children,...

    London, Harvey & Darton, 1824.

    A scarce work, second edition, the first...

    £400

  3. [BERKENHOUT, John].

    Clavis anglica Linguæ botanicæ; or, a...

    London: Printed for the Author. Sold by...

    First edition, dedicated to John Hope of...

    £325

  4. 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

  5. BIGLAND, John.

    Letters on natural History, exhibiting...

    London, James Cundee for Longman, Hurst...

    Scarce first edition of Bigland’s...

    £200

  6. BINGLEY, William.

    Animal Biography, or authentic Anecdotes...

    London, R. Taylor & Co. for Richard Phillips,...

    Third edition of Bingley’s most popular...

    £175

  7. BOTTO, Giuseppe Domenico.

    Observations microscopiques sur les mouvements...

    [Turin], Imprimerie Royale, [1840].

    An extremely rare offprint from the Memorie...

    £675

  8. COLONNA, Fabio. 

    Φυτοβασανος, sive Plantarum...

    Naples, Orazio Salviani, 1592. 

    First edition, a landmark in botanical...

    £4000

  9. CUVIER, Georges, and Edward BLYTH (editor).

    The animal Kingdom, arranged after its...

    London, William S. Orr & Co., 1851.

    Third Blyth edition of Cuvier’s Règne...

    £175

  10. DURHAM, Arthur E. 

    Transverse Section of Wood (Salisburia). 

    Circa 1870s. 

    A rare and attractive microphotograph...

    £1100

  11. DUTROCHET, Henri. 

    Recherches sur l’endosmose et sur la...

    [Paris, imprimerie de Veuve Thuau, 1832.] 

    An interesting article on endosmosis...

    £175

  12. DVIGUBSKII, Ivan Alekseevich.

    Opyt estestvennoi istorii vsekh zhivotnykh...

    Moscow, University Press, 1831

    First edition, rare, one of a series...

    £2000

  13. EDWARDS, James.

    The hemiptera-homoptera (cicadina and psyllina)...

    London, Ballantyne, Hanson, & Co. for...

    First edition of Edwards’s survey...

    £75

  14. [FARSARI, Adolfo, Studio of.]

    Japanese flower seller.

    [Yokohama?, c. 1887.]

    A striking image of a Japanese flower...

    £200

  15. FRANZ, Wolfgang.

    Animalium historia sacra, in qua plerorumque...

    Amsterdam, Jan Jansson, 1643.

    First Jansson edition (fifth overall)....

    £75

  16. 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

  17. LEE, Henry.

    [Cover title:] The White Whale …

    London, R. K. Burt & Co. … 1878.

    First edition, an account of the white...

    £225

  18. LINNAEUS, Carl (or von LINNÉ), and James JENKINSON (translator). 

    A generic and specific Description of British...

    Ashburner, and Lancaster, A. Ashburner,...

    First edition of this provincially printed...

    £225

  19. [LONDON ZOO.] HARVEY, William (illustrator).

    The Gardens and Menagerie of the Zoological...

    Chiswick, Charles Wittingham, for London,...

    First edition, second issue, of the...

    £175