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. ANDREWS, Mark.

    The Science and Engineering of Water. An...

    Toronto, AE Publications, 2024.

    An extensively illustrated catalogue...

    £85

  2. ANDREWS, Mark E.

    The Science and Engineering of Materials:...

    Toronto, AE Publications, 2023.

    An extraordinary survey of four centuries...

    £85

  3. ANDREWS, Mark E.

    The Science and Engineering of Water: An...

    Toronto, A.E. Publications, 2022.

    A lavishly illustrated catalogue, tracing...

    £85

  4. BARCLAY, Arthur Kett.

    ‘Journal of a Tour through Cornwall and...

    18 July–13 October 1826.

    A most interesting diary recording a...

    £3500

  5. BOYLE, Robert.

    Tractatus … Ubi 1. Mira aëris …...

    London, Henry Herringman, 1671 [but printed...

    I. Second edition, very scarce. The...

    £1750

  6. CREVE, Carl Caspar. 

    Vom Metallreize, einem neuentdeckten untrüglichen...

    Leipzig and Gera, Wilhelm Heinsius, 1796.

    First edition of this uncommon contribution...

    £550

  7. FINÉ, Oronce. 

    Opere di Orontio Fineo … divise in cinque...

    Venice, Francesco Franceschi, 1587. 

    First Italian edition of the works of...

    £2750

  8. FRONTINUS, Sextus Julius.

    Sexti Julii Frontini, viri consularis,...

    Amsterdam, Johann à Waesberge, 1661.

    The collected works of the first-century...

    £250

  9. [GUARINI, Giambattista Lascaris].

    Ragionamenti filosofici.

    Rome, Gioacchino Puccinelli, 1785[-6].

    Only edition, very uncommon, of this collection...

    £875

  10. HODSON, Thomas.

    The Accomplished Tutor; or, complete System...

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

    Second edition, revised, of a voluminous...

    £300

  11. HOPKINS, William. 

    Address delivered at the Hull Meeting of...

    London, Taylor & Francis, 1853. 

    First edition, an 1853 Address to the...

    £350

  12. MAPLET, John, and W.H. DAVIES (editor).

    A greene Forest, or a naturall Historie,...

    London, Hesperides Press, 1930.

    Limited edition, numbered 31 of fifty...

    £75

  13. MARZAGLIA, Gaetano.

    Fascetto di pratiche matematiche spiegate...

    Verona, Dionisio Ramanzini, 1780.

    A lovely copy of the second edition, considerably...

    £650

  14. MEITNER, Lise, and Otto R. FRISCH. 

    On the Products of the Fission of Uranium...

    Copenhagen, Ejnar Munksgaard, 1939. 

    First edition of this highly important...

    £850

  15. MORTON, John.

    The natural History of Northampton-Shire,...

    London, R. Knaplock and R. Wilkin, 1712.

    First edition of Morton’s systematic...

    £775

  16. MÖSSBAUER, Rudolf Ludwig.

    ‘Kernresonanzabsorption von Gammstrahlung...

    Berlin, Springer, November 1958.

    First appearance of Mössbauer’s PhD...

    £200

  17. [PARKER, Richard Green; Junkichi KATAYAMA 片山 淳吉, editor.]

    物理階梯 [Butsuri kaitei; 'A...

    Gifu Prefecture, Ministry of Education,...

    First edition, very rare, of Japan’s...

    £1750

  18. PARKER, Thomas Netherton.

    Leaves out of the Book of a Country Gentleman.

    Oswestry, W. Price, London, Longman &...

    First and only edition of this very...

    £1950

  19. PLINY the Elder.

    Historiae mundi libri XXXVII, cum castigationibus...

    Frankfurt, Claude de Marne and heirs of...

    First Frankfurt edition of Pliny’s...

    £1400

  20. RIEMANN, Georg Friedrich Bernhard.

    Ein Beitrag zu den Untersuchungen über...

    Göttingen, Dieterichsche Buchhandlung, 1861.

    the very rare offprint issue from the abhandlungen...

    £750