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. ARISTOTLE; THEOPHRASTUS; Theodorus GAZA and Pietro ALCIONIO, translators.

    Historiae. Cum de natura Animalium, tum...

    Lyons, [Nicolas Bacquenois for] Guillaume...

    A union of Aristotle on animals and Theophrastus...

    £800

  2. BREREWOOD, Edward. 

    Enquiries touching the Diversity of Languages,...

    London, Printed [by Eliot’s Court Press]...

    First edition.  Brerewood, professor of...

    £3000

  3. AELIANUS, Claudius, Conrad GESSNER (translator), and Pierre GILLES (editor).

    Περι ζωων ιδιοτητος βιβλιον...

    Cologny, Philippe Albert, 1616.

    Uncommon Geneva edition of Aelianus’s...

    £300

  4. RAIMONDI, Eugenio.

    Delle caccie … libri Quattro, aggiuntovi’n...

    [Naples, Lazzaro Scoriggio, 1626.]

    Second edition, expanded and extended,...

    £2500

  5. CULPEPER, Thomas.

    The English Physician enlarged: with three...

    London, Peter Cole, 1653.

    Second (first octavo) edition, enlarged...

    £1850

  6. VISSCHER, Nicolaes [I]. 

    ...

    Amsterdam, Nicolaus [I] Visscher, 1659. 

    First and only edition of this rare...

    £3750

  7. [LOO, Pieter van, attributed.]

    156 watercolours of flowers, plants, and fruits.

    [Holland, c. 1760–80].

    A truly stunning collection of over 150...

    £100000

  8. ASTRUC, Jean. 

    Tractatus de motus fermentativi causa novam...

    Montpellier, Honoratus Pech, 1702. 

    A dissertation on fermentation published...

    £500

  9. MORTON, John.

    The natural History of Northampton-Shire,...

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

    First edition of Morton’s systematic...

    £775

  10. SAUNIER, Jean de, and Gaspard de SAUNIER.

    La parfaite connoissance des chevaux, leur...

    The Hague, for the Author and sold by...

    First edition of Gaspard de Saunier’s...

    £1950

  11. POCOCKE, Richard. 

    A Description of the East, and some other...

    ...

    First edition, demy folio issue. A successful...

    £8000

  12. 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

  13. [BERKENHOUT, John].

    Clavis anglica Linguæ botanicæ; or, a...

    London: Printed for the Author. Sold by...

    First edition, dedicated to John Hope of...

    £325

  14. [DEZALLIER D’ARGENVILLE, Antoine Joseph.]

    Conchyliologie nouvelle et portative, ou...

    Paris, ‘chez Regnard, Imprimeur de l’Académie...

    First edition, uncommon, of this pocket...

    £400

  15. 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

  16. [SCHLOSSER, Johann Albert.] BODDAERT, Pieter. 

    Epistola ad virum celeberrimum Johannem...

    Amsterdam, apud Cornelium van Tongerlo, 1770.

    First and only edition of Boddaert’s...

    £500

  17. [SCHLOSSER, Johann Albert].  BODDAERT, Pieter.

    Epistola ad … Hier. Dav. Gaubium …...

    Amsterdam, apud M. Magerum, 1772.

    First and only edition of Boddaert’s...

    £500

  18. ALLIONI, Carlo.

    Flora Pedemontana sive enumeratio methodica...

    Turin, Giovanni Michele Briolo, 1785.

    First edition of the earliest Italian regional...

    £30000

  19. WALCOTT, John. 

    The Figures, Description, and History of...

    London, W. Justins for the Author, and...

    First and only edition, very rare, published...

    £3500

  20. 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