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.-
NEWTON, Isaac.
Opticks: or, a Treatise of the Reflexions,...
London, for Samuel Smith and Benjamin...
First edition of Newton’s Opticks,...
£70000
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SCHRÖDINGER, Erwin, et al.
A collection of offprints and papers from...
1902–1961.
A remarkable collection of offprints and...
£45000
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ARCHIMEDES.
Τα μεχρι νυν σωζομενα,...
Basel, Johannes Herwagen, [(colophon):...
Editio princeps of the works of...
£45000
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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
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HUMBLOT, F.
Journal de voyage ...
France, June–September 1866.
A handsome manuscript on mining engineering,...
£3500
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FINÉ, Oronce.
Opere di Orontio Fineo … divise in cinque...
Venice, Francesco Franceschi, 1587.
First edition in Italian of the works of...
£2750
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[SACROBOSCO, Johannes de.]
CLAVIUS, Christophorus. In sphaeram Ioannis...
Rome, Francesco Zanetti for Domenico Basa,...
Third edition, the first to contain Clavius’s...
£2500
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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
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BOYLE, Robert.
Tractatus … Ubi 1. Mira aëris …...
London, Henry Herringman, 1671 [but printed...
I. Second edition, very scarce. The first...
£1750
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[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
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[ARISTOTLE.]
‘P[hiloso]phia na[tur]alis seu Phisica;...
[Douai, c. 1702].
An interesting hybrid volume, combining...
£1450
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[GUARINI, Giambattista Lascaris].
Ragionamenti filosofici.
Rome, Gioacchino Puccinelli, 1785[-6].
Only edition, very uncommon, of this collection...
£875
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SACCHI, Giovenale.
Del numero e delle misure delle corde musiche...
Milan, [Giuseppe Mazzucchelli (colophon),]...
First edition of Sacchi’s first work:...
£850
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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
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MORTON, John.
The natural History of Northampton-Shire,...
London, R. Knaplock and R. Wilkin, 1712.
First edition of Morton’s systematic...
£775
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RIEMANN, Georg Friedrich Bernhard.
Ein Beitrag zu den Untersuchungen über...
Göttingen, Dieterichsche Buchhandlung, 1861.
the very rare offprint issue from the abhandlungen...
£750
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BOTTO, Giuseppe Domenico.
Observations microscopiques sur les mouvements...
[Turin], Imprimerie Royale, [1840].
An extremely rare offprint from the Memorie...
£675
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[ROYAL PRUSSIAN SOCIETY OF SCIENCES.]
Miscellanea berolinensia ad incrementum...
Berlin, Johann Christoph Papen, 1723.
First continuation of Leibniz’s Miscellanea...
£575
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STENUIT, Alfred, and G. de VOGHEL.
Manuel de sauvetage dans les mines. Notions...
Tamines, Duculot-Roulin, 1909.
Only edition of this attractively illustrated...
£350
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HOPKINS, William.
Address delivered at the Hull Meeting of...
London, Taylor & Francis, 1853.
First edition, an 1853 Address to the British...
£350