Science

Contact Andrea Mazzocchi

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 sixteenth-century...

    £950

  4. BOYLE, Robert.

    Certain physiological Essays and other...

    London, Henry Herringman, 1669.

    Second edition in English, enlarged. ‘The...

    £1500

  5. BOYLE, Robert.

    Tractatus … Ubi 1. Mira aëris …...

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

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

    £1750

  6. GASPARIN, Agénor Étienne, Comte de.

    Des tables tournantes du surnaturel en...

    Paris, Bonaventure and Ducessois for E....

    Scarce first edition of Gasparin’s early...

    £1500

  7. [KRÜDENER, Barbara Juliane de Vietinghoff, Freifrau von.]

    Valérie, ou Lettres de Gustave de Linar...

    Paris, Henrichs, 1804.

    Rare first edition of Valérie,...

    £400

  8. LIEBIG, Justus von.

    Autograph letter to the publishers Heinrich...

    Darmstadt, 16 September 1847.

    Letter from the German chemist Justus von...

    £750

  9. LISTER, Joseph.

    Three autograph letters, signed, to Sir...

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

    Three letters by the great surgeon Joseph...

    £750

  10. LOCATELLI, Lodovico. 

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

    Milan, Gio. Pietro Ramellati, 1644. 

    First edition of Locatelli’s alchemical...

    £2500

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

    Новѣйшее образованiе:...

    St Petersburg, Izdanie “Russkoi knizhnoi...

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

    £100

  12. [PARACELSUS.

    Aureoli Theophrasti Paracelsi eremitae...

    [Basel, Pietro Perna, 1575.]

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

    £1750

  13. PASTEUR, Louis.

    Visiting card with autograph note.

    [No place, undated.]

    With the autograph note ‘Avec ses remerciments...

    £400

  14. REFELL, A. 

    Trugbilder: Eine Anleitung Erscheinungen,...

    Stuttgart, Rieger, 1865. 

    First German edition, rare, of this fascinating...

    £1250

  15. RICHARDUS ANGLICUS.

    Correctorium alchymiae ... Das is reformierte...

    Strasbourg, Bernard Jobin, 1581.

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

    £4500

  16. STIRLING, A.M.W.

    Ghosts vivisected. An impartial inquiry...

    London, Robert Hale, 1957.

    First edition, a very readable account...

    £40

  17. [WALL, Thomas].

    A Second Christian Warning-Piece; wherein...

    London, 1681-2.

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

    £1750