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. ‘A.C.’ and ‘A.L.C.’

    Dialogue entre un médecin et un homme...

    Paris, chez les marchands de nouveautés, 1824.

    Rare first edition of this entertaining...

    £375

  2. ADORNO, Theodor W., Else FRENKEL-BRUNSWIK, Daniel J. LEVINSON, and R. Nevitt SANFORD

    The Authoritarian Personality.

    New York, Harper Brothers, 1950.

    First edition of this groundbreaking work...

    £225

  3. [ALKEN, Henry.]

    The Beauties & Defects in the Figure of...

    Boston, Carter & Hendee, 1830.

    First American edition, the second and...

    £1200

  4. ALLEN, John.

    Principles of modern Riding for Gentlemen,...

    London, C. & C. Whittingham for Thomas...

    First and only edition of an uncommon riding...

    £350

  5. ALLIONI, Carlo.

    Flora Pedemontana sive enumeratio methodica...

    Turin, Giovanni Michele Briolo, 1785.

    First edition of the earliest Italian regional...

    £30000

  6. ALOS, Juan.

    Pharmacopoea Cathalana, sive antidotarium...

    Barcelona, Antonio & Balthasar Ferrer, 1686.

    Scarce first edition of this Barcelona...

    £1500

  7. [ANATOMY.]

    ‘Breve compendio anatomico’.

    [Italy, c. 1720.]

    A handsome set of apparently unpublished...

    £1750

  8. ANDREWS, Mark E.

    The Science and Engineering of Materials:...

    Toronto, AE Publications, 2023.

    An extraordinary survey of four centuries...

    £75

  9. ANDREWS, Mark E.

    The Science and Engineering of Water: An...

    Toronto, A.E. Publications, 2022.

    A lavishly illustrated catalogue, tracing...

    £75

  10. ANDREWS, Mark E.

    The Photographer at Work. Documenting Civil...

    Toronto, AE Publications, 2025.

    A beautifully produced catalogue of photographs...

    £85

  11. [ANON.]

    The Gentleman’s compleat Jockey, with...

    London, Peter Parker, 1711.

    Fifth edition, very scarce, of an anonymous...

    £1750

  12. [ANON].

    Elogio del corno. Dell‘ autore della...

    Venice, Stamperia Graziosi, 1796.

    Only edition, as far as we can tell unrecorded,...

    £275

  13. ANSELMI, Giorgio, the younger

    Georgii Anselmi nepotis Epigrammaton libri...

    Venice, Maffeo Pasini, September 1528. 

    The definitive edition of the epigrams...

    £875

  14. [APPERLEY, Charles James.] ‘NIMROD’, and Henry ALKEN (illustrator).

    The Chace, the Turf, and the Road.

    London, A. Spottiswoode for John Murray, 1837.

    First edition of a series of articles first...

    £350

  15. 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

  16. [ARISTOTLE.]

    ‘P[hiloso]phia na[tur]alis seu Phisica;...

    [Douai, c. 1702].

    An interesting hybrid volume, combining...

    £1450

  17. [ARISTOTLE – ELIAS.]

    Biblioteca Armeno-Georgica. I. Commentarii...

    St Petersburg, Academiae Imperialis Scientarum,...

    Uncommon edition, published by the Imperial...

    £250

  18. ARISTOTLE; THEOPHRASTUS; Theodorus GAZA and Pietro ALCIONIO, translators.

    Historiae. Cum de natura Animalium, tum...

    Lyons, [Nicolas Bacquenois for] Guillaume...

    A union of Aristotle on animals and Theophrastus...

    £800

  19. ASTRUC, Jean. 

    Tractatus de motus fermentativi causa novam...

    Montpellier, Honoratus Pech, 1702. 

    A dissertation on fermentation published...

    £500

  20. AUGIER DU FOT, Anne Amable.

    Catechismo d’ostetricia per istruzione...

    Venice, Stamperia Graziosi, 1787.

    Uncommon first Italian edition of this...

    £550