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.-
AELIANUS, Claudius, Conrad GESSNER (translator), and Pierre GILLES (editor).
Περι ζωων ιδιοτητος βιβλιον...
Cologny, Philippe Albert, 1616.
Uncommon Geneva edition of Aelianus’s...
£300
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[ANDREAE, Johann Valentin.]
Reipublicae Christianopolitanae descriptio ...
Strasburg, heirs of Lazarus Zetzner, 1619.
a fine sammelband of four first editions...
£12500
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[ANON.]
The Gentleman’s compleat Jockey, with...
London, Peter Parker, 1711.
Fifth edition, very scarce, of an anonymous...
£1750
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[ARISTOTLE – ELIAS.]
Biblioteca Armeno-Georgica. I. Commentarii...
St Petersburg, Academiae Imperialis Scientarum,...
Uncommon edition, published by the Imperial...
£250
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[ARITHMETIC.]
Libretto di abbaco per istruzione de’...
Roma, Si vende da Pietro Aureli alla Catena...
Unrecorded issue of a printed ‘abacus’,...£240
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[ARNAULD, Antoine, and Pierre NICOLE.]
La logique ou l’art de penser, contenant,...
Paris, Jean Guignart, Charles Savreaux,...
Scarce first edition of the work known...
£2000
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ASTLEY, Philip.
Astley’s System of equestrian Education,...
London, T. Burton for S. Creed, [c. 1801].
Fifth edition of a work on horse-training...
£350
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ATABEY, Sefik E. – Leonora NAVARI.
The Ottoman World. The Sefik E. Atabey...
London: Bernard J. Shapero, 1998.
First and only edition, limited to 750...
£600
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BALDUINO, Girolamo.
Quaesitum novum pulcherrimum, ac optatissimum...
Naples, Raymundus Amatus, 1557.
Scarce first editions of two early works...
£1950
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[BALLANTINE, E.]
Natural History of Quadrupeds, for Children,...
London, Harvey & Darton, 1824.
A scarce work, second edition, the first...
£400
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BARBIERI, Lodovico.
Trattato di psicologia nel quale si ragiona...
Venice, Pietro Valvasense, 1756.
First edition of the polymath Barbieri’s...
£500
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BARTHOLIN, Thomas, and Caspar BARTHOLIN the younger (editor).
De unicornu observationes novae. Secunda...
Amsterdam, Henricus Wetstein, 1678.
First illustrated edition (second overall)...
£1500
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BARTJENS, Willem.
De vernieuwde cyfferinge … waer uyt men...
Amsterdam, Michiel de Groot, 1677.
Rare, early edition of Bartjens’ classic...
£3750
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BARTLET, John.
Pharmacopoeia hippiatrica, or the Gentleman...
Eton, J. Pote for T. Pote, 1764.
First edition, published at Eton....
£850
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BARTLET, John.
The Gentleman Farrier’s Repository of...
Philadelphia, Joseph Crukshank, 1775.
Rare first American edition of Bartlet’s...
£850
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[BERKENHOUT, John].
Clavis anglica Linguæ botanicæ; or, a...
London: Printed for the Author. Sold by...
First edition, dedicated to John Hope of...
£325
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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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BIGLAND, John.
Letters on natural History, exhibiting...
London, James Cundee for Longman, Hurst...
Scarce first edition of Bigland’s...
£200
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BINGLEY, William.
Animal Biography, or authentic Anecdotes...
London, R. Taylor & Co. for Richard Phillips,...
Third edition of Bingley’s most popular...
£175
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BLAINE, Delabere Pritchett.
The Outlines of the veterinary Art, or...
London, A. Strahan for T.N. Longman &...
Very rare first edition, with contemporary...
£1400