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

    Περι ζωων ιδιοτητος βιβλιον...

    Cologny, Philippe Albert, 1616.

    Uncommon Geneva edition of Aelianus’s...

    £300

  2. ALLIONI, Carlo.

    Flora Pedemontana sive enumeratio methodica...

    Turin, Giovanni Michele Briolo, 1785.

    First edition of the earliest Italian regional...

    £30000

  3. 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

  4. ASTRUC, Jean. 

    Tractatus de motus fermentativi causa novam...

    Montpellier, Honoratus Pech, 1702. 

    A dissertation on fermentation published...

    £500

  5. [BALLANTINE, E.]

    Natural History of Quadrupeds, for Children,...

    London, Harvey & Darton, 1824.

    A scarce work, second edition, the first...

    £400

  6. [BERKENHOUT, John].

    Clavis anglica Linguæ botanicæ; or, a...

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

    First edition, dedicated to John Hope of...

    £325

  7. 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

  8. BIGLAND, John.

    Letters on natural History, exhibiting...

    London, James Cundee for Longman, Hurst...

    Scarce first edition of Bigland’s Letters...

    £200

  9. BINGLEY, William.

    Animal Biography, or authentic Anecdotes...

    London, R. Taylor & Co. for Richard Phillips,...

    Third edition of Bingley’s most popular...

    £175

  10. BLANFORD, William Thomas.

    Observations on the Geology and Zoology...

    London, Macmillan and Co., 1870.

    First edition of the geologist and naturalist...

    £300

  11. BOTTO, Giuseppe Domenico.

    Observations microscopiques sur les mouvements...

    [Turin], Imprimerie Royale, [1840].

    An extremely rare offprint from the Memorie...

    £675

  12. BRAUN, Adolphe.

    Untitled flower study (orchids).

    c. 1870?

    A stunning monumental flower study by Adolphe...

    £1200

  13. BRAUN, Adolphe.

    Untitled flower study (camellia).

    c. 1870?

    An exquisite monumental flower study by...

    £1200

  14. BREREWOOD, Edward. 

    Enquiries touching the Diversity of Languages,...

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

    First edition.  Brerewood, professor of...

    £3000

  15. CULPEPER, Thomas.

    The English Physician enlarged: with three...

    London, Peter Cole, 1653.

    Second (first octavo) edition, enlarged...

    £1850

  16. 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

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

    Conchyliologie nouvelle et portative, ou...

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

    First edition, uncommon, of this pocket...

    £400

  18. DURHAM, Arthur E. 

    Transverse Section of Wood (Salisburia). 

    Circa 1870s. 

    A rare and attractive microphotograph of...

    £1100

  19. DUTROCHET, Henri. 

    Recherches sur l’endosmose et sur la...

    [Paris, imprimerie de Veuve Thuau, 1832.] 

    An interesting article on endosmosis by...

    £175

  20. DVIGUBSKY, Ivan Alekseevich.

    Опытъ естественной исторіи...

    Moscow, University Press, 1831.

    First edition, rare, one of a series of...

    £2000