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. EDWARDS, James.

    The hemiptera-homoptera (cicadina and psyllina)...

    London, Ballantyne, Hanson, & Co. for...

    First edition of Edwards’s survey of...

    £75

  2. EMSWORTH, D.

    Le cheval & le chien.

    Brussels, widow Parent & Son, and Paris,...

    Very rare French treatise on horses and...

    £375

  3. EUCLID.

    Στοιχειων βιβλ. ιε εκ...

    Basel, Johannes Herwagen, September 1533.

    Editio princeps of Euclid, the ‘oldest...

    £18000

  4. EUCLID; Jean MAGNIEN and Stephanus GRACILIS, editors.

    Euclidis elementorum libri XV Graece et...

    Paris, Guillaume Cavellat, 1557.

    First edition of Euclid’s Elements...

    £5500

  5. [FARSARI, Adolfo, Studio of.]

    Japanese flower seller.

    [Yokohama?, c. 1887.]

    A striking image of a Japanese flower vendor,...

    £200

  6. FENNING, Daniel.

    The Ready Reckoner; or Trader’s most...

    London, printed for S. Crowder … and...

    First edition thus, edited by the mathematician...

    £250

  7. FINÉ, Oronce.

    Opere di Orontio Fineo … divise in cinque...

    Venice, Francesco Franceschi, 1587.

    First edition in Italian of the works of...

    £2750

  8. [FIRST AID – RAILWAYS.] 

    Ministère des chemins de fer, postes et...

    Ghent, F.& R. Buyck, 1912. 

    First separate edition, seemingly unrecorded,...

    £195

  9. FLEMING, Alexander, Sir.

    On the antibacterial Action of Cultures...

    [London, H.K. Lewis & Co., 1944.]

    Second edition of Fleming’s study announcing...

    £4000

  10. FLORIO, Blasco.

    Lettera sopra alcuni ostacoli che la logica,...

    Messina, Giuseppe Fiumara, 1825.

    Very rare first edition of this work on...

    £475

  11. FREUD, Sigmund.

    Moses and monotheism [translated from the...

    New York, Alfred A, Knopf, 1939.

    First American edition of the last lifetime...

    £80

  12. GABARO, Antonio. 

    Alla pregiatissima Signora Domenica Schiavon...

    Padua, ‘Nella Tipografia del Seminario’,...

    First and only edition, very rare, of a...

    £380

  13. [GALEN.] STEPHANUS.   

    Stephani Atheniensis philosophi explanationes...

    Venice, Giunta, November 1554. 

    First edition of Agostino Gadaldini’s...

    £950

  14. GARSAULT, François-Alexandre de.

    Le nouveau parfait maréchal, ou la connoissance...

    Paris, Moreau for Hochereau, 1770.

    Fourth edition of one of the most popular...

    £650

  15. GASPARIN, Agénor Étienne, Comte de.

    Des tables tournantes du surnaturel en...

    Paris, Bonaventure and Ducessois for E....

    Scarce first edition of Gasparin’s early...

    £1500

  16. GAYOT DE PITAVAL, [François].

    Question d’estat: fille reclamée par...

    Paris, Nicolas le Gras, 1716.

    Very rare first edition of this account...

    £350

  17. GIBELLI, Giacinto. 

    Due dissertazioni sopra li vantaggi, che...

    Genoa, Paolo Scionico, 1767. 

    First and only edition, rare, of these...

    £600

  18. GOELICKE, Andreas Ottomar.

    Disputatio physica experimentalis exhibens...

    Halle, Johann Montag, [1704].

    Scarce academic disputation on experimental...

    £275

  19. GOSSELIN, Charles-Robert.

    Plan d’éducation, en réponse aux académies...

    Amsterdam, 1785.

    A most interesting sammelband of three...

    £875

  20. [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