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. NEWTON, Isaac.

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

    London, for Samuel Smith and Benjamin...

    First edition of Newton’s Opticks,...

    £70000

  2. ALLIONI, Carlo.

    Flora Pedemontana sive enumeratio methodica...

    Turin, Giovanni Michele Briolo, 1785.

    First edition of the earliest Italian regional...

    £30000

  3. NIGHTINGALE, Florence.

    Notes on Matters affecting the Health,...

    London, Harrison and Sons, 1858.

    First edition, printed for private circulation...

    £18000

  4. MARKHAM, Gervase.

    Cavalarice, or the English Horseman: Contayning...

    London, Edward Allde for Edward White,...

    A beautiful copy of the second edition,...

    £9750

  5. BARLOW, [Francis].

    Barlow’s Birds and Beasts, in sixty-seven...

    London, Carington Bowles, [John Bowles,...

    An extremely rare edition of this drawing-book...

    £8500

  6. FLEMING, Alexander, Sir.

    On the antibacterial Action of Cultures...

    [London, H.K. Lewis & Co., 1944.]

    Second edition of Fleming’s study announcing...

    £4000

  7. CIUCCI, Antonio Filippo.

    Promptuarium Chirurgicum In quo agitur...

    Macerata, Joseph Piccinus, 1679–1680.

    First edition, very rare, of this handbook...

    £2850

  8. SECHENOV, Ivan Mikhaylovich.

    Fisiologia nervnoy sistemy [in Cyrillic].

    St. Petersburg, 1866.

    first edition, rare, of Sechenov’s influential...

    £2750

  9. MERCURIALE, Girolamo. 

    De arte gymnastica libri sex, in quibus...

    Venice, [Lucantonio II] Giunta, 1587. 

    Third edition of ‘the first illustrated...

    £2750

  10. MARTINENQ, Jean Baptiste Thomas.

    Codex medicamentarius, seu pharmacopoea...

    Paris, apud Guillelmum Cavelier, 1748.

    Revised and enlarged edition (first 1638)...

    £2500

  11. MARINIS, Dominico de. 

    Dissertatio philosophico-medica de re monstrosa...

    Rome, typis Iacobi Mascardi ... sumptibus...

    First edition of this scarce dissertation...

    £1850

  12. [PHARMACOPOEIA.]

    Pharmacopoea Taurinensis nunc primum edita...

    Turin, Jean-Baptiste Chais, 1736.

    First edition of this Turin pharmacopoeia,...

    £1800

  13. [ANATOMY.]

    ‘Breve compendio anatomico’.

    [Italy, c. 1720.]

    A handsome set of apparently unpublished...

    £1750

  14. [ANON.]

    The Gentleman’s compleat Jockey, with...

    London, Peter Parker, 1711.

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

    £1750

  15. ORIBASIUS. 

    Commentaria in Aphorismos Hippocratis …...

    Paris, Simon de Colines, 1533. 

    First edition of this commentary on Hippocrates,...

    £1750

  16. CASAUBON, Meric.

    A Treatise concerning Enthusiasme, as it...

    London, R.D. for Thomas Johnson, 1655...

    First edition of the first separate treatise...

    £1750

  17. BENZI, Ugo; Giovanni Lodovico BERTALDI, commentator.

    Regole della sanità et della natura de...

    Turin, heirs of Giovanni Domenico Tarino, 1618.

    Scarce first vernacular edition of the...

    £1750

  18. [GRANT, Charles, Vicomte de Vaux.]

    Recueil d’Essais, ou précis des opinions,...

    A Londres: De l’Imprimerie de T. Spilsbury...

    An interesting tract volume, containing...

    £1500

  19. ALOS, Juan.

    Pharmacopoea Cathalana, sive antidotarium...

    Barcelona, Antonio & Balthasar Ferrer, 1686.

    Scarce first edition of this Barcelona...

    £1500

  20. DONNOLI, Francesco Alfonso.

    De iis, qui semel in die cibum capiunt....

    Venice, Benedetto Miloco, 1674.

    First edition, an uncut copy of Donnoli’s...

    £1450