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. 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

  2. ARCHIMEDES.

    Τα μεχρι νυν σωζομενα,...

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

    Editio princeps of the works of...

    £45000

  3. [SACROBOSCO, Johannes de.]

    CLAVIUS, Christophorus. In sphaeram Ioannis...

    Rome, Francesco Zanetti for Domenico Basa,...

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

    £2500

  4. FINÉ, Oronce.

    Opere di Orontio Fineo … divise in cinque...

    Venice, Francesco Franceschi, 1587.

    First edition in Italian of the works of...

    £2750

  5. BOYLE, Robert.

    Tractatus … Ubi 1. Mira aëris …...

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

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

    £1750

  6. NEWTON, Isaac.

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

    London, for Samuel Smith and Benjamin...

    First edition of Newton’s Opticks,...

    £70000

  7. MORTON, John.

    The natural History of Northampton-Shire,...

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

    First edition of Morton’s systematic...

    £775

  8. [ROYAL PRUSSIAN SOCIETY OF SCIENCES.]

    Miscellanea berolinensia ad incrementum...

    Berlin, Johann Christoph Papen, 1723.

    First continuation of Leibniz’s Miscellanea...

    £575

  9. SACCHI, Giovenale. 

    Del numero e delle misure delle corde musiche...

    Milan, [Giuseppe Mazzucchelli (colophon),]...

    First edition of Sacchi’s first work:...

    £850

  10. [GUARINI, Giambattista Lascaris].

    Ragionamenti filosofici.

    Rome, Gioacchino Puccinelli, 1785[-6].

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

    £875

  11. BOTTO, Giuseppe Domenico.

    Observations microscopiques sur les mouvements...

    [Turin], Imprimerie Royale, [1840].

    An extremely rare offprint from the Memorie...

    £675

  12. 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

  13. HOPKINS, William. 

    Address delivered at the Hull Meeting of...

    London, Taylor & Francis, 1853. 

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

    £350

  14. RIEMANN, Georg Friedrich Bernhard.

    Ein Beitrag zu den Untersuchungen über...

    Göttingen, Dieterichsche Buchhandlung, 1861.

    the very rare offprint issue from the abhandlungen...

    £750

  15. HUMBLOT, F.

    Journal de voyage ...

    France, June–September 1866.

    A handsome manuscript on mining engineering,...

    £3500

  16. BLANFORD, William Thomas.

    Observations on the Geology and Zoology...

    London, Macmillan and Co., 1870.

    First edition of the geologist and naturalist...

    £300

  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. STENUIT, Alfred, and G. de VOGHEL.

    Manuel de sauvetage dans les mines. Notions...

    Tamines, Duculot-Roulin, 1909.

    Only edition of this attractively illustrated...

    £350

  19. 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

  20. DIRAC, Paul Adrien Maurice.

    Quantised Singularities in the electromagnetic...

    London, Harrison and Sons for the Royal...

    First edition of this remarkable paper...

    £800