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.-
DARWIN, Charles.
The Variation of Animals and Plants under...
London, John Murray, 1868.
First edition, first issue, an important...
£70000
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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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SCHRÖDINGER, Erwin, et al.
A collection of offprints and papers from...
1902–1961.
A remarkable collection of offprints and...
£45000
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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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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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EUCLID.
Στοιχειων βιβλ. ιε εκ...
Basel, Johannes Herwagen, September 1533.
Editio princeps of Euclid, the ‘oldest...
£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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FLEMING, Alexander, Sir.
On the antibacterial Action of Cultures...
[London, H.K. Lewis & Co., 1944.]
Second edition of Fleming’s study announcing...
£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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HUMBLOT, F.
Journal de voyage ...
France, June–September 1866.
A handsome manuscript on mining engineering,...
£3500
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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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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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CIUCCI, Antonio Filippo.
Promptuarium Chirurgicum In quo agitur...
Macerata, Joseph Piccinus, 1679–1680.
First edition, very rare, of this handbook...
£2850
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SECHENOV, Ivan Mikhaylovich.
Fisiologia nervnoy sistemy [in Cyrillic].
St. Petersburg, 1866.
first edition, rare, of Sechenov’s influential...
£2750
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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