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. ORIBASIUS. 

    Commentaria in Aphorismos Hippocratis …...

    Paris, Simon de Colines, 1533. 

    First edition of this commentary on...

    £1750

  2. BLANCHON, Jacques.

    Iacobi Blanchoni ucessiensis adversus Ludovicum...

    Lyon, Jean de Tournes, 1550.

    First edition of a very rare work of...

    £950

  3. [GALEN.] STEPHANUS.   

    Stephani Atheniensis philosophi explanationes...

    Venice, Giunta, November 1554. 

    First edition of Agostino Gadaldini’s...

    £950

  4. LANDI, Bassiano.

    De origine et causa pestis Patauinae, anni...

    Venice, apud Balthassarem Constantinum...

    First edition of this important work...

    £1250

  5. GIOVANNI BATTISTA DA NAPOLI. 

    Opera et trattato, che insegna molti dignissimi...

    [Venice, 1556?] 

    Rare second revised edition (first 1527)...

    £2750

  6. ALEXIS OF PIEDMONT (i.e. Girolamo RUSCELLI?).

    The Secretes of the reverende Maister Alexis...

    London, Henry Bynneman, for John Wight, 1568.

    The Secrets of Alexis of Piedmont in...

    £4500

  7. MERCURIALE, Girolamo. 

    De arte gymnastica libri sex, in quibus...

    Venice, [Lucantonio II] Giunta, 1587. 

    Third edition of ‘the first illustrated...

    £2750

  8. MANFREDI, Girolamo, and Pedro de RIBAS, translator

    Libro llamado El porque provechosissimo...

    Alcalá de Henares, Juan Iñiguez de Lequerica,...

    Extremely rare, early Alcalá-printed...

    £1250

  9. MARKHAM, Gervase.

    Cavalarice, or the English Horseman: Contayning...

    London, Edward Allde for Edward White,...

    A beautiful copy of the second edition,...

    £12000

  10. BENZI, Ugo.

    Regole della sanità et della natura de...

    Turin, heirs of Giovanni Domenico Tarino, 1618.


    Scarce first edition of the vernacular...

    £2500

  11. RONDINELLI, Francesco.

    Relazione del contagio stato in Firenze...

    Florence, Gio. Batista Landini, 1634.

    First edition of this official account...

    £950

  12. TALIANI, Giuseppe. 

    Orologi riflessi, per mezo di un picciolo...

    Macerata, Filippo Camacci, 1648. 

    Only recorded edition, rare, of this...

    £950

  13. CASAUBON, Meric.

    A Treatise concerning Enthusiasme, as it...

    London, R.D. for Thomas Johnson, 1655...

    First edition of the first separate...

    £1750

  14. SALADO GARCES Y RIBERA, Francisco.

    Varias materias de diversas facultades,...

    Utrera, Juan Malpartida, 1655.

    Very rare first edition of this highly...

    £2500

  15. STATUTA COLLEGII DD.

    Almae Urbis Medicorum ex antiquis Romanorum...

    Rome, Printer of the Apostolic Chamber,...

    The very rare enlarged and updated issue...

    £550

  16. DESCARTES, René, and Louis de la FORGE (editor).

    Tractatus de homine, et de formatione foetus.

    Amsterdam, Daniel Elzevir, 1677.

    First and only Elzevir edition, and...

    £1100

  17. MARINIS, Dominico de. 

    Dissertatio philosophico-medica de re monstrosa...

    Rome, typis Iacobi Mascardi ... sumptibus...

    First edition of this scarce dissertation...

    £1850

  18. CIUCCI, Antonio Filippo.

    Promptuarium Chirurgicum in quo agitur...

    Macerata, Joseph Piccinus, 1679–1680.

    First edition, very rare, of this handbook...

    £2850

  19. [DE LA GUTHÈRE.]

    Du bon usage des eaux de Baignieres.

    Agen, Antoine Bru … 1680.

    Second edition, revised, a guide to...

    £600