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. MEAD, Richard.

    A Short Discourse concerning pestilential...

    London, printed [by William Bowyer] for...

    ‘Third edition’ of the most famous...

    £375

  2. [MEDICAL DICTIONARY.]

    Dictionary of medical terms, Latin-English...

    [S.l., early 1800s].

    An interesting manuscript compiled by an...

    £450

  3. MEGUSCHER, Francesco.

    Memoria … in risposta al quesito additare...

    Milan, presso l’I.R. Istituto, 1847.

    Uncommon first edition of this comprehensive...

    £950

  4. 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

  5. MERCURIALE, Girolamo. 

    De arte gymnastica libri sex, in quibus...

    Venice, [Lucantonio II] Giunta, 1587. 

    Third edition of ‘the first illustrated...

    £2750

  6. [MICROSCOPY – RABIQUEAU, Charles.]

    Manifeste littéraire, servant de supplément...

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

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

    £250

  7. 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

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

    Новѣйшее образованiе:...

    St Petersburg, Izdanie “Russkoi knizhnoi...

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

    £100

  9. MITTAG-LEFFLER, Gösta.

    Sur la représentation analytique d’une...

    Stockholm, 1899-1909.

    First edition of this important series...

    £750

  10. 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

  11. MORTON, John.

    The natural History of Northampton-Shire,...

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

    First edition of Morton’s systematic...

    £775

  12. MÖSSBAUER, Rudolf Ludwig.

    ‘Kernresonanzabsorption von Gammstrahlung...

    Berlin, Springer, November 1958.

    First appearance of Mössbauer’s PhD...

    £200

  13. MÜLLER, Johann Baptist.

    Erfahrungssätze über die contagiöse...

    Mainz, Florian Kupferberg, 1821.

    A fine presentation copy of Müller’s...

    £350

  14. NEWTON, Isaac.

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

    London, for Samuel Smith and Benjamin...

    First edition of Newton’s Opticks,...

    £70000

  15. NIGHTINGALE, Florence.

    Notes on Matters affecting the Health,...

    London, Harrison and Sons, 1858.

    First edition, printed for private circulation...

    £18000

  16. [NOVARA.]

    [Incipit:] Il vescovo di Novara...

    [Novara], 10 May 1805.

    An apparently unrecorded broadside from...

    £175

  17. ORIBASIUS. 

    Commentaria in Aphorismos Hippocratis …...

    Paris, Simon de Colines, 1533. 

    First edition of this commentary on Hippocrates,...

    £1750

  18. OSBALDISTON, William Augustus.

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

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

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

    £650

  19. [PARACELSUS.

    Aureoli Theophrasti Paracelsi eremitae...

    [Basel, Pietro Perna, 1575.]

    The second half of a two-volume edition...

    £1750

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

    物理階梯 [Butsuri kaitei; 'A Guide...

    Gifu Prefecture, Ministry of Education,...

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

    £1750