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. HOPKINS, William. 

    Address delivered at the Hull Meeting of...

    London, Taylor & Francis, 1853. 

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

    £350

  2. [SACROBOSCO, Johannes de.]

    CLAVIUS, Christophorus. In sphaeram Ioannis...

    Rome, Francesco Zanetti for Domenico Basa,...

    Third edition, the first to contain Clavius’s...

    £2500

  3. SCHRÖDINGER, Erwin, et al.

    A collection of offprints and papers from...

    1902–1961.

    A remarkable collection of offprints and...

    £45000

  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. MARZAGLIA, Gaetano.

    Fascetto di pratiche matematiche spiegate...

    Verona, Dionisio Ramanzini, 1780.

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

    £650

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

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

    London, Hesperides Press, 1930.

    Limited edition, numbered 31 of fifty copies...

    £75

  8. [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

  9. HUMBLOT, F.

    Journal de voyage ...

    France, June–September 1866.

    A handsome manuscript on mining engineering,...

    £3500

  10. MÖSSBAUER, Rudolf Ludwig.

    ‘Kernresonanzabsorption von Gammstrahlung...

    Berlin, Springer, November 1958.

    First appearance of Mössbauer’s PhD...

    £200

  11. PARKER, Thomas Netherton.

    Leaves out of the Book of a Country Gentleman.

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

    First and only edition of this very rare...

    £1950

  12. STENUIT, Alfred, and G. de VOGHEL.

    Manuel de sauvetage dans les mines. Notions...

    Tamines, Duculot-Roulin, 1909.

    Only edition of this attractively illustrated...

    £350

  13. [ROYAL PRUSSIAN SOCIETY OF SCIENCES.]

    Miscellanea berolinensia ad incrementum...

    Berlin, Johann Christoph Papen, 1723.

    First continuation of Leibniz’s Miscellanea...

    £575

  14. MORTON, John.

    The natural History of Northampton-Shire,...

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

    First edition of Morton’s systematic...

    £775

  15. BOTTO, Giuseppe Domenico.

    Observations microscopiques sur les mouvements...

    [Turin], Imprimerie Royale, [1840].

    An extremely rare offprint from the Memorie...

    £675

  16. BLANFORD, William Thomas.

    Observations on the Geology and Zoology...

    London, Macmillan and Co., 1870.

    First edition of the geologist and naturalist...

    £300

  17. ARCHIMEDES.

    Τα μεχρι νυν σωζομενα,...

    Basel, Johannes Herwagen, [(colophon):...

    Editio princeps of the works of...

    £45000

  18. FINÉ, Oronce.

    Opere di Orontio Fineo … divise in cinque...

    Venice, Francesco Franceschi, 1587.

    First edition in Italian of the works of...

    £2750

  19. NEWTON, Isaac.

    Opticks: or, a Treatise of the Reflexions,...

    London, for Samuel Smith and Benjamin...

    First edition of Newton’s Opticks,...

    £70000

  20. ANDREWS, Mark E.

    The Photographer at Work. Documenting Civil...

    Toronto, AE Publications, 2025.

    A beautifully produced catalogue of photographs...

    £85