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. MEITNER, Lise, and Otto R. FRISCH.

    On the Products of the Fission of Uranium...

    Copenhagen, Ejnar Munksgaard, 1939.

    First edition of this highly important...

    £850

  2. MERCURIALE, Girolamo. 

    De arte gymnastica libri sex, in quibus...

    Venice, [Lucantonio II] Giunta, 1587. 

    Third edition of ‘the first illustrated...

    £2750

  3. [MICROSCOPY – RABIQUEAU, Charles.]

    Manifeste littéraire, servant de supplément...

    Geneva and Paris, the author and Demonville,...

    Only edition of this prospectus-cum-supplement...

    £250

  4. MILES, William J., J.I. LUPTON, and Benjamin HERRING (illustrator).

    Modern practical Farriery: A complete Guide...

    London, Glasgow, and Edinburgh, William...

    Miles’s comprehensive and generously...

    £350

  5. MILL, John Stuart, and Edward Livingston YOUMANS.

    Новѣйшее образованiе:...

    St Petersburg, Izdanie “Russkoi knizhnoi...

    First edition in Russian of these two works,...

    £100

  6. MITTAG-LEFFLER, Gösta.

    Sur la représentation analytique d’une...

    Stockholm, 1899–1909.

    First edition of this important series...

    £750

  7. MOREL DE RUBEMPRÉ, Joseph.

    Les secrets de la génération ou l’art...

    chez tous les libraires, [c. 1870].

    Joseph Morel de Rubempré’s (1812–86)...

    £150

  8. MORTON, John.

    The natural History of Northampton-Shire,...

    London, R. Knaplock and R. Wilkin, 1712.

    First edition of Morton’s systematic...

    £775

  9. MÖSSBAUER, Rudolf Ludwig.

    ‘Kernresonanzabsorption von Gammstrahlung...

    Berlin, Springer, November 1958.

    First appearance of Mössbauer’s PhD...

    £200

  10. MÜLLER, Johann Baptist.

    Erfahrungssätze über die contagiöse...

    Mainz, Florian Kupferberg, 1821.

    A fine presentation copy of Müller’s...

    £350

  11. NEWTON, Isaac.

    Opticks: or, a Treatise of the Reflexions,...

    London, for Samuel Smith and Benjamin...

    First edition of Newton’s Opticks,...

    £70000

  12. NIGHTINGALE, Florence.

    Notes on Matters affecting the Health,...

    London, Harrison and Sons, 1858.

    First edition, printed for private circulation...

    £18000

  13. [NOVARA.]

    [Incipit:] Il vescovo di Novara...

    [Novara], 10 May 1805.

    An apparently unrecorded broadside from...

    £175

  14. OSBALDISTON, William Augustus.

    The British Sportsman, or Nobleman, Gentleman,...

    London, J. Stead for the Proprietor, and...

    First edition, issued in forty-two parts,...

    £650

  15. [PARKER, Richard Green; Junkichi KATAYAMA 片山 淳吉, editor.]

    物理階梯 [Butsuri kaitei; ‘A...

    Gifu Prefecture, Ministry of Education,...

    First edition, very rare, of Japan’s...

    £1750

  16. PARKER, Thomas Netherton.

    Leaves out of the Book of a Country Gentleman.

    Oswestry, W. Price, London, Longman &...

    First and only edition of this rare compilation...

    £1950

  17. PASTA, Giuseppe. 

    Della facoltà dell’oppio nelle malattie...

    Bergamo, dalla stamperia Antoine, 1788. 

    Very rare first edition of this treatise...

    £350

  18. PASTEUR, Louis.

    Visiting card with autograph note.

    [No place, undated.]

    With the autograph note ‘Avec ses remerciments...

    £400

  19. [PHARMACOPOEIA.]

    Pharmacopoea Taurinensis nunc primum edita...

    Turin, Jean-Baptiste Chais, 1736.

    First edition of this Turin pharmacopoeia,...

    £1800

  20. [PHARMACOPOEIA.]

    Apparatus medicaminum ad usum nosocomii...

    Pavia, Joseph Bolzani, [1790].

    Very rare first edition of this pharmacopoeia...

    £750