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. 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

  2. [ARISTOTLE.] 

    Disputations on Aristotle’s Organon

    Milan, 1600-1601. 

    An interesting manuscript comprising disputations...

    £1250

  3. BALLARIN, Vincenzo. 

    Dimostrazione sintetica della quadratura...

    Venice, Fracasso, 1828. 

    First and only edition of this confident...

    £900

  4. SACCHI, Giovenale. 

    Del numero e delle misure delle corde musiche...

    Milan, [Giuseppe Mazzucchelli (colophon),]...

    First edition of Sacchi’s first work:...

    £850

  5. RIEMANN, Georg Friedrich Bernhard.

    Ein Beitrag zu den Untersuchungen über...

    Göttingen, Dieterichsche Buchhandlung, 1861.

    the very rare offprint issue from the abhandlungen...

    £750

  6. HOPKINS, William. 

    Address delivered at the Hull Meeting of...

    London, Taylor & Francis, 1853. 

    First edition, an 1853 Address to the British...

    £350

  7. HODSON, Thomas.

    The Accomplished Tutor; or, complete System...

    London, H. D. Symonds, and Vernor and...

    Second edition, revised, of a voluminous...

    £300

  8. 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

  9. LAEMMEL, Rudolf.

    Untersuchungen über die Ermittlung von...

    Zurich, Jean Frey, 1904.

    The doctoral dissertation of Rudolf Laemmel,...

    £250

  10. KNAPP, Georg Friedrich.

    Die neuern Ansichten über Moralstatistik …

    Jena, Friedrich Mauke, 1871.

    First edition of a lecture given on 29...

    £250

  11. [ARISTOTLE – ELIAS.]

    Biblioteca Armeno-Georgica. I. Commentarii...

    St Petersburg, Academiae Imperialis Scientarum,...

    Uncommon edition, published by the Imperial...

    £250

  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. JEVONS, William Stanley.

    Studies in deductive logic. A manual for...

    London, Macmillan and Co., 1880.

    First edition. Jevons had been preoccupied...

    £175

  14. HURRY, Thomas.

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

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

    One of two editions published in 1786,...

    £150

  15. [MABBUT, George].

    Sir Isaac Newton’s tables for renewing...

    London, printed for Thomas Astley, 1742

    Sixth edition, first published in 1686,...

    £125