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. ANSELMI, Giorgio, the younger

    Georgii Anselmi nepotis Epigrammaton libri...

    Venice, Maffeo Pasini, September 1528. 

    The definitive edition of the epigrams...

    £875

  2. 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

  3. BLANCHON, Jacques.

    Iacobi Blanchoni Ucessiensis adversus Ludovicum...

    Lyons, Jean de Tournes, 1550.

    First edition of a very rare work of...

    £950

  4. BOYLE, Robert.

    Tractatus … Ubi 1. Mira aëris …...

    London, Henry Herringman, 1671 [but printed...

    I. Second edition, very scarce. The...

    £1750

  5. GASPARIN, Agénor Étienne, Comte de.

    Des tables tournantes du surnaturel en...

    Paris, Bonaventure and Ducessois for E....

    Scarce first edition of Gasparin’s...

    £1500

  6. LIEBIG, Justus von.

    Autograph letter to the publishers Heinrich...

    Darmstadt, 16 September 1847.

    Letter from the German chemist Justus...

    £750

  7. LISTER, Joseph.

    Three autograph letters, signed, to Sir...

    London, 12 Park Crescent, Portland Place,...

    Three letters by the great surgeon Joseph...

    £750

  8. LOCATELLI, Lodovico. 

    Theatro d’Arcani … nel quale si tratta...

    Milan, Gio. Pietro Ramellati, 1644. 

    First edition of Locatelli’s alchemical...

    £2500

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

    Новѣйшее образованiе:...

    St Petersburg, Izdanie “Russkoi knizhnoi...

    First edition in Russian of these two...

    £100

  10. [PARACELSUS.

    Aureoli Theophrasti Paracelsi eremitae...

    [Basel, Pietro Perna, 1575.]

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

    £1750

  11. PASTEUR, Louis. 

    Études sur la bière, ses maladies, causes...

    Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1876.

    First edition.  In his Études...

    £750

  12. PASTEUR, Louis.

    Visiting card with autograph note.

    [No place, undated.]

    With the autograph note ‘Avec ses remerciments...

    £400

  13. REFELL, A. 

    Trugbilder: Eine Anleitung Erscheinungen,...

    Stuttgart, Rieger, 1865. 

    First German edition, rare, of this...

    £1250

  14. RICHARDUS ANGLICUS.

    Correctorium alchymiae ... Das is reformierte...

    Strasbourg, Bernard Jobin, 1581.

    First edition of ‘a very rare collection’...

    £4500

  15. STIRLING, A.M.W.

    Ghosts vivisected. An impartial inquiry...

    London, Robert Hale, 1957.

    First edition, a very readable account...

    £40

  16. TAYLOR, Alfred Swaine.

    Notes for lectures on heat.

    [London,] c. 1844.

    An extensive set of lecture notes, with...

    £3750

  17. [WALL, Thomas].

    A Second Christian Warning-Piece; wherein...

    London, 1681-2.

    First edition, very rare, of a vehement...

    £1750