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. ADAMS, John Couch.

    The scientific Papers … edited by William...

    Cambridge, University Press, 1896 [– 1900].

    First edition of the posthumously published...

    £175

  2. [ARISTOTLE – ELIAS.]

    Biblioteca Armeno-Georgica. I. Commentarii...

    St Petersburg, Academiae Imperialis Scientarum,...

    Uncommon edition, published by the Imperial...

    £250

  3. [ARNAULD, Antoine, and Pierre NICOLE.]

    La logique ou l’art de penser, contenant,...

    Paris, Jean Guignart, Charles Savreaux,...

    Scarce first edition of the work known...

    £1750

  4. BALLARIN, Vincenzo. 

    Dimostrazione sintetica della quadratura...

    Venice, Fracasso, 1828. 

    First and only edition of this confident...

    £900

  5. [BATEMAN, John].

    Land surveying. Definitions, problems,...

    [S.l.], April 13th, 1866.

    An attractive and well-preserved manuscript...

    £275

  6. BERRYAT, Jean, et al., editors.

    Receuil de Mémoires, ou Collection de...

    Dijon, Auxerre, Paris and Liège, F. Desventes,...

    The scarce first collected edition of these...

    £6000

  7. BOSE, Johann Andreas.

    Io. Andr. Bosii introductio generalis in...

    Jenae, Johann Bielke, 1676.

    First edition of a pioneering work of statistics...

    £1500

  8. BROGGI, Ugo.

    Die Axiome der Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung.

    Göttingen, Dieterischen Universitäts-Buchdruckerei,...

    Rare first edition of this doctoral dissertation...

    £200

  9. DEPARCIEUX, Antoine.

    Essai sur les probabilités de la durée...

    Paris, chez les frères Guerin, 1746.

    A large, crisp and illustrious copy...

    £3000

  10. FENNING, Daniel.

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

    London: Printed for S. Crowder … and...

    First edition thus, edited by the mathematician...

    £250

  11. FINÉ, Oronce. 

    Opere di Orontio Fineo … divise in cinque...

    Venice, Francesco Franceschi, 1587. 

    First Italian edition of the works of...

    £2750

  12. FISHER, George.

    The instructor: or, young man’s best...

    London, for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch...

    Second edition (the first appeared in 1727)....

    £350

  13. HURRY, Thomas.

    Tables of interest, from one pound to five...

    [Yarmouth], Printed for the author, and...

    One of two editions published in 1786,...

    £150

  14. JEVONS, William Stanley.

    Studies in deductive logic. A manual for...

    London, Macmillan and Co., 1880.

    First edition. Jevons had been preoccupied...

    £175

  15. JEVONS, William Stanley.

    ‘Preliminary account of certain logical...

    London, Longman …, Liverpool, Marples, 1867.

    First edition of the account of Jevons’...

    £350

  16. KNAPP, Georg Friedrich.

    Die neuern Ansichten über Moralstatistik …

    Jena, Friedrich Mauke, 1871.

    First edition of a lecture given on 29...

    £250

  17. KOCH, Manfred (pr.), Primo SCHLECHTEN and Feliciano SCHARRER (resp.).

    Philosophia rationalis sive logica centum...

    Augsburg, Afra Sturmin, 1695.

    A good copy of this rare dissertation from...

    £275

  18. KRUMP, Epiphanius.

    Analysis syllogistica seu theses Scoto-logicae...

    Ingolstadt, Thomas Grass, 1695.

    Very rare thesis on the syllogism, by the...

    £175

  19. LAEMMEL, Rudolf.

    Untersuchungen über die Ermittlung von...

    Zurich, Jean Frey, 1904.

    The doctoral dissertation of Rudolf Laemmel,...

    £250

  20. LAMB, Sir Horace.

    Autograph letter, signed, to Thomas Bromwich.

    6 Wilbraham Road, Fallowfield, Manchester,...

    A letter from Sir Horace Lamb (1849–1934)...

    £125