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 of...

    £85

  2. ANDREWS, Mark E.

    The Science and Engineering of Materials:...

    Toronto, AE Publications, 2023.

    An extraordinary survey of four centuries...

    £75

  3. ANDREWS, Mark E.

    The Science and Engineering of Water: An...

    Toronto, A.E. Publications, 2022.

    A lavishly illustrated catalogue, tracing...

    £75

  4. ANDREWS, Mark E.

    The Photographer at Work. Documenting Civil...

    Toronto, AE Publications, 2025.

    A beautifully produced catalogue of photographs...

    £85

  5. ARCHIMEDES.

    Τα μεχρι νυν σωζομενα,...

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

    Editio princeps of the works of...

    £45000

  6. BLANFORD, William Thomas.

    Observations on the Geology and Zoology...

    London, Macmillan and Co., 1870.

    First edition of the geologist and naturalist...

    £300

  7. BOTTO, Giuseppe Domenico.

    Observations microscopiques sur les mouvements...

    [Turin], Imprimerie Royale, [1840].

    An extremely rare offprint from the Memorie...

    £675

  8. BOYLE, Robert.

    Tractatus … Ubi 1. Mira aëris …...

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

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

    £1750

  9. FINÉ, Oronce. 

    Opere di Orontio Fineo … divise in cinque...

    Venice, Francesco Franceschi, 1587. 

    First Italian edition of the works of Finé. ...

    £2750

  10. [GUARINI, Giambattista Lascaris].

    Ragionamenti filosofici.

    Rome, Gioacchino Puccinelli, 1785[-6].

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

    £875

  11. HOPKINS, William. 

    Address delivered at the Hull Meeting of...

    London, Taylor & Francis, 1853. 

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

    £350

  12. HUMBLOT, F.

    Journal de voyage ...

    France, June–September 1866.

    A handsome manuscript on mining engineering,...

    £3500

  13. 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

  14. MARZAGLIA, Gaetano.

    Fascetto di pratiche matematiche spiegate...

    Verona, Dionisio Ramanzini, 1780.

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

    £650

  15. 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

  16. MORTON, John.

    The natural History of Northampton-Shire,...

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

    First edition of Morton’s systematic...

    £775

  17. MÖSSBAUER, Rudolf Ludwig.

    ‘Kernresonanzabsorption von Gammstrahlung...

    Berlin, Springer, November 1958.

    First appearance of Mössbauer’s PhD...

    £200

  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 rare...

    £1950

  19. RIEMANN, Georg Friedrich Bernhard.

    Ein Beitrag zu den Untersuchungen über...

    Göttingen, Dieterichsche Buchhandlung, 1861.

    the very rare offprint issue from the abhandlungen...

    £750

  20. [ROYAL PRUSSIAN SOCIETY OF SCIENCES.] 

    Miscellanea berolinensia ad incrementum...

    Berlin, Johann Christoph Papen, 1723. 

    First continuation of Leibniz’s Miscellanea...

    £575