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.-
ARCHIMEDES, BOETHIUS, and CAMPANO da Novara; Luca GAURICO, editor.
Tetragonismus id est circuli quadratura...
Venice, [Giacomo Penzio for] Giovanni...
The first appearance in print of any complete...
£18000
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EUCLID.
Στοιχειων βιβλ. ιε εκ...
Basel, Johannes Herwagen, September 1533.
Editio princeps of Euclid, the ‘oldest...
£18000
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TARTAGLIA, Niccolò Fontana.
Quesiti, et inventioni diverse.
[(Colophon:) Venice, Venturino Ruffinelli...
First edition, annotated throughout by...
£6750
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EUCLID; Jean MAGNIEN and Stephanus GRACILIS, editors.
Euclidis elementorum libri XV Graece et...
Paris, Guillaume Cavellat, 1557.
First edition of Euclid’s Elements...
£5500
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BAKER, Humfrey.
The Well Sprynge of Sciences which teacheth...
London, Roland Hall for James Rowbotham, 1562.
The extremely rare first edition (one of...
£35000
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FINÉ, Oronce.
Opere di Orontio Fineo … divise in cinque...
Venice, Francesco Franceschi, 1587.
First edition in Italian of the works of...
£2750
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LUNESCHLOS, Joannes de.
Thesaurus mathematum reseratus per algebram...
Padua, Giulio Crivellari, 1646.
An uncommon mathematical text, written...
£8500
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BOSE, Johann Andreas.
Io. Andr. Bosii introductio generalis...
Jenae, Johann Bielke, 1676.
First edition of a pioneering work of statistics...
£1500
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KOCH, Manfred (pr.), Primo SCHLECHTEN and Feliciano SCHARRER (resp.).
Philosophia rationalis sive logica centum...
Augsburg, Afra Sturmin, 1695.
A good copy of this rare dissertation from...
£275
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L’HÔPITAL, Guillaume François Antoine, marquis de.
Analyse des infiniment petits, pour l’intelligence...
Paris, François Montalant, 1715.
Second edition (first 1696) of l’Hôpital’s...
£2750
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[ROYAL PRUSSIAN SOCIETY OF SCIENCES.]
Miscellanea berolinensia ad incrementum...
Berlin, Johann Christoph Papen, 1723.
First continuation of Leibniz’s Miscellanea...
£575
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[MABBUT, George].
Sir Isaac Newton’s tables for renewing...
London, printed for Thomas Astley, 1742
Sixth edition, first published in 1686,...
£125
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DEPARCIEUX, Antoine.
Essai sur les probabilités de la durée...
Paris, chez les frères Guerin, 1746.
A large, crisp, and illustrious copy of...
£3000
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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
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SACCHI, Giovenale.
Del numero e delle misure delle corde musiche...
Milan, [Giuseppe Mazzucchelli (colophon),]...
First edition of Sacchi’s first work:...
£850
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MARZAGLIA, Gaetano.
Fascetto di pratiche matematiche spiegate...
Verona, Dionisio Ramanzini, 1780.
A lovely copy of the second edition, considerably...
£650
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FENNING, Daniel.
The Ready Reckoner; or Trader’s most...
London, printed for S. Crowder … and...
First edition thus, edited by the mathematician...
£250
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GOSSELIN, Charles-Robert.
Plan d’éducation, en réponse aux académies...
Amsterdam, 1785.
A most interesting sammelband of three...
£875
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HURRY, Thomas.
Tables of interest, from one pound to five...
[Yarmouth], Printed for the author, and...
One of two editions published in 1786,...
£150
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HODSON, Thomas.
The Accomplished Tutor; or, complete System...
London, H. D. Symonds, and Vernor and...
Second edition, revised, of a voluminous...
£300