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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ALEXIS OF PIEDMONT (i.e. Girolamo RUSCELLI?).
The Secretes of the reverende Maister Alexis...
London, Henry Bynneman, for John Wight, 1568.
The Secrets of Alexis of Piedmont in...
£4500
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ASTRUC, Jean.
Tractatus de motus fermentativi causa novam...
Montpellier, Honoratus Pech, 1702.
A dissertation on fermentation published...
£500
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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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[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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BOTTO, Giuseppe Domenico.
Observations microscopiques sur les mouvements...
[Turin], Imprimerie Royale, [1840].
An extremely rare offprint from the Memorie...
£675
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COLONNA, Fabio.
Φυτοβασανος, sive Plantarum...
Naples, Orazio Salviani, 1592.
First edition, a landmark in botanical...
£4000
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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
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DURHAM, Arthur E.
Transverse Section of Wood (Salisburia).
Circa 1870s.
A rare and attractive microphotograph...
£1100
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DUTROCHET, Henri.
Recherches sur l’endosmose et sur la...
[Paris, imprimerie de Veuve Thuau, 1832.]
An interesting article on endosmosis...
£175
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DVIGUBSKII, Ivan Alekseevich.
Opyt estestvennoi istorii vsekh zhivotnykh...
Moscow, University Press, 1831.
First edition, rare, one of a series...
£2000
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EDWARDS, James.
The hemiptera-homoptera (cicadina and psyllina)...
London, Ballantyne, Hanson, & Co. for...
First edition of Edwards’s survey...
£75
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[FARSARI, Adolfo, Studio of.]
Japanese flower seller.
[Yokohama?, c. 1887.]
A striking image of a Japanese flower...
£200
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FRANZ, Wolfgang.
Animalium historia sacra, in qua plerorumque...
Amsterdam, Jan Jansson, 1643.
First Jansson edition (fifth overall)....
£75
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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
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LEE, Henry.
[Cover title:] The White Whale …
London, R. K. Burt & Co. … 1878.
First edition, an account of the white...
£225
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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