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. ADAMS, John Couch.

    The scientific Papers … edited by William...

    Cambridge, University Press, 1896 [– 1900].

    First edition of the posthumously published...

    £175

  2. [ARISTOTLE – ELIAS.]

    Biblioteca Armeno-Georgica. I. Commentarii...

    St Petersburg, Academiae Imperialis Scientarum,...

    Uncommon edition, published by the Imperial...

    £250

  3. ARNALDUS DE VILLANOVA. 

    Computus ecclesiasticus et astronomicus...

    Venice, Bernardino Vitali, 17 February 1501. 

    Rare first edition, the Erwin Tomash...

    £4500

  4. [ARNAULD, Antoine, and Pierre NICOLE.]

    La logique ou l’art de penser, contenant,...

    Paris, Jean Guignart, Charles Savreaux,...

    Scarce first edition of the work known...

    £1750

  5. BALLARIN, Vincenzo. 

    Dimostrazione sintetica della quadratura...

    Venice, Fracasso, 1828. 

    First and only edition of this confident...

    £900

  6. [BATEMAN, John].

    Land surveying. Definitions, problems,...

    [S.l.], April 13th, 1866.

    An attractive and well-preserved manuscript...

    £275

  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. BOSE, Johann Andreas.

    Io. Andr. Bosii introductio generalis in...

    Jenae, Johann Bielke, 1676.

    First edition of a pioneering work of statistics...

    £1500

  9. BROGGI, Ugo.

    Die Axiome der Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung.

    Göttingen, Dieterischen Universitäts-Buchdruckerei,...

    Rare first edition of this doctoral dissertation...

    £200

  10. CARNAP, Rudolf.

    Existe-t-il des premises de la science...

    [N.p., n.p.,] September 1936.

    First edition. ‘All the premises on which...

    £100

  11. COPPENS, Charles.

    ...

    New York, Schwartz, Kirwin & Fauss, 1891.

    First edition of Coppens’s text-book,...

    £30

  12. FENNING, Daniel.

    The Ready Reckoner; or Trader’s most...

    London: Printed for S. Crowder … and...

    First edition thus, edited by the mathematician...

    £250

  13. FINÉ, Oronce. 

    Opere di Orontio Fineo … divise in cinque...

    Venice, Francesco Franceschi, 1587. 

    First Italian edition of the works of...

    £2750

  14. FISHER, George.

    The instructor: or, young man’s best...

    London, for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch...

    Second edition (the first appeared in 1727)....

    £350

  15. GALILEI, Galileo, and Carlo MANOLESSI (editor). 

    Opere. 

    Bologna, heirs Dozza, [1655–] 1656. 

    A substantial volume of Galileo’s...

    £2500

  16. GASPAROLI, Carlo Maria.

    Dialectica sive manuductio ad logicam dictata...

    Antwerp, 1753.

    A handsome manuscript comprising a thorough...

    £4750

  17. HURRY, Thomas.

    Tables of interest, from one pound to five...

    [Yarmouth], Printed for the author, and...

    One of two editions published in 1786,...

    £150

  18. JAMESON, James.

    Manuscript exercise book on mensuration...

    Perth, 1780s?

    A particularly attractive manuscript...

    £1450

  19. JEVONS, William Stanley.

    ‘Preliminary account of certain logical...

    London, Longman …, Liverpool, Marples, 1867.

    First edition of the account of Jevons’...

    £350

  20. JEVONS, William Stanley.

    Studies in deductive logic. A manual for...

    London, Macmillan and Co., 1880.

    First edition. Jevons had been preoccupied...

    £175