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. TARTAGLIA, Niccolò Fontana.

    Quesiti, et inventioni diverse.

    [(Colophon:) Venice, Venturino Ruffinelli...

    First edition, annotated throughout by...

    £6750

  3. 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

  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. L’HÔPITAL, Guillaume François Antoine, marquis de

    Analyse des infiniment petits, pour l’intelligence...

    Paris, François Montalant, 1715. 

    Second edition (first 1696) of l’Hôpital’s...

    £3500

  6. DEPARCIEUX, Antoine.

    Essai sur les probabilités de la durée...

    Paris, chez les frères Guerin, 1746.

    A large, crisp, and illustrious copy of...

    £3000

  7. FINÉ, Oronce. 

    Opere di Orontio Fineo … divise in cinque...

    Venice, Francesco Franceschi, 1587. 

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

    £2750

  8. [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

  9. BOSE, Johann Andreas.

    Io. Andr. Bosii introductio generalis in...

    Jenae, Johann Bielke, 1676.

    First edition of a pioneering work of statistics...

    £1500

  10. [ARISTOTLE.] 

    Disputations on Aristotle’s Organon

    Milan, 1600-1601. 

    An interesting manuscript comprising disputations...

    £1250

  11. PONCELET, Jean-Victoire.

    Traité des propriétés projectives des...

    Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1865-1866.

    Second edition, revised and enlarged, Émile...

    £950

  12. BALLARIN, Vincenzo. 

    Dimostrazione sintetica della quadratura...

    Venice, Fracasso, 1828. 

    First and only edition of this confident...

    £900

  13. 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

  14. SACCHI, Giovenale. 

    Del numero e delle misure delle corde musiche...

    Milan, [Giuseppe Mazzucchelli (colophon),]...

    First edition of Sacchi’s first work:...

    £850

  15. POPE, William.

    Manuscript arithmetic schoolbook.

    [Tiverton?] ‘Sunday Octr 24.th 1804’.

    A manuscript arithmetic schoolbook belonging...

    £850

  16. RIEMANN, Georg Friedrich Bernhard.

    Ein Beitrag zu den Untersuchungen über...

    Göttingen, Dieterichsche Buchhandlung, 1861.

    the very rare offprint issue from the abhandlungen...

    £750

  17. MITTAG-LEFFLER, Gösta.

    Sur la représentation analytique d’une...

    Stockholm, 1899-1909.

    First edition of this important series...

    £750

  18. MARZAGLIA, Gaetano.

    Fascetto di pratiche matematiche spiegate...

    Verona, Dionisio Ramanzini, 1780.

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

    £650

  19. [ROYAL PRUSSIAN SOCIETY OF SCIENCES.] 

    Miscellanea berolinensia ad incrementum...

    Berlin, Johann Christoph Papen, 1723. 

    First continuation of Leibniz’s Miscellanea...

    £575

  20. HOPKINS, William. 

    Address delivered at the Hull Meeting of...

    London, Taylor & Francis, 1853. 

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

    £350