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.-
ORIBASIUS.
Commentaria in Aphorismos Hippocratis …...
Paris, Simon de Colines, 1533.
First edition of this commentary on Hippocrates,...
£1750
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BLANCHON, Jacques.
Iacobi Blanchoni Ucessiensis adversus Ludovicum...
Lyons, Jean de Tournes, 1550.
First edition of a very rare work of sixteenth-century...
£950
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[GALEN.] STEPHANUS.
Stephani Atheniensis philosophi explanationes...
Venice, Giunta, November 1554.
First edition of Agostino Gadaldini’s...
£950
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LANDI, Bassiano.
De origine et causa pestis Patauinae, anni...
Venice, apud Balthassarem Constantinum...
First edition of this important work investigating...
£1250
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[PARACELSUS.
Aureoli Theophrasti Paracelsi eremitae...
[Basel, Pietro Perna, 1575.]
The second half of a two-volume edition...
£1750
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MANFREDI, Girolamo, and Pedro de RIBAS, translator.
Libro llamado El porque provechosissimo...
Alcalá de Henares, Juan Iñiguez de Lequerica,...
Extremely rare, early Alcalá-printed edition...
£1250
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MERCURIALE, Girolamo.
De arte gymnastica libri sex, in quibus...
Venice, [Lucantonio II] Giunta, 1587.
Third edition of ‘the first illustrated...
£2750
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AELIANUS, Claudius, Conrad GESSNER (translator), and Pierre GILLES (editor).
Περι ζωων ιδιοτητος βιβλιον...
Cologny, Philippe Albert, 1616.
Uncommon Geneva edition of Aelianus’s...
£300
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MARKHAM, Gervase.
Cavalarice, or the English Horseman: Contayning...
London, Edward Allde for Edward White,...
A beautiful copy of the second edition,...
£9750
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BENZI, Ugo; Giovanni Lodovico BERTALDI, commentator.
Regole della sanità et della natura de...
Turin, heirs of Giovanni Domenico Tarino, 1618.
Scarce first vernacular edition of the...
£2500
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CULPEPER, Thomas.
The English Physician enlarged: with three...
London, Peter Cole, 1653.
Second (first octavo) edition, enlarged...
£1850
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SALADO GARCES Y RIBERA, Francisco.
Varias materias de diversas facultades,...
Utrera, Juan Malpartida, 1655.
Very rare first edition of this highly...
£2500
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HIPPOCRATES.
The Eight Sections of Hippocrates Aphorismes...
London, W. G. for Rob. Crofts, 1665.
First edition of this translation of the...
£850
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STATUTA COLLEGII DD.
Almae Urbis Medicorum ex antiquis Romanorum...
Rome, Printer of the Apostolic Chamber,...
The very rare enlarged and updated issue...
£550
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MARINIS, Dominico de.
Dissertatio philosophico-medica de re monstrosa...
Rome, typis Iacobi Mascardi ... sumptibus...
First edition of this scarce dissertation...
£1850
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CIUCCI, Antonio Filippo.
Promptuarium Chirurgicum in quo agitur...
Macerata, Joseph Piccinus, 1679–1680.
First edition, very rare, of this handbook...
£2850
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[DE LA GUTHÈRE.]
Du bon usage des eaux de Baignieres.
Agen, Antoine Bru … 1680.
Scarce second edition, revised, a guide...
£600
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ALOS, Juan.
Pharmacopoea Cathalana, sive antidotarium...
Barcelona, Antonio & Balthasar Ferrer, 1686.
Scarce first edition of this Barcelona...
£1500
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[CHARTONNET, Antoine-François.]
Considerations sur les devoirs des personnes...
Paris, chez Edme Couterot, 1695.
Rare first edition of this religious manual...
£275
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ASTRUC, Jean.
Tractatus de motus fermentativi causa novam...
Montpellier, Honoratus Pech, 1702.
A dissertation on fermentation published...
£500