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.-
ALLIONI, Carlo.
Flora Pedemontana sive enumeratio methodica...
Turin, Giovanni Michele Briolo, 1785.
First edition of the earliest Italian regional...
£30000
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[INCUNABLE SAMMELBAND.]
Sammelband of ten works.
Rome, Stephan Plannck and Eucharius Silber,...
A sammelband of ten Roman incunables, nine...
£25000
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NIGHTINGALE, Florence.
Notes on Matters affecting the Health,...
London, Harrison and Sons, 1858.
First edition, printed for private circulation...
£18000
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[LOO, Pieter van, attributed.]
156 watercolours of flowers, plants, and fruits.
[Holland, c. 1760–80].
A truly stunning collection of over 150...
£100000
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MARKHAM, Gervase.
Cavalarice, or the English Horseman: Contayning...
London, Edward Allde for Edward White,...
A beautiful copy of the second edition,...
£9750
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POCOCKE, Richard.
A Description of the East, and some other...
...
First edition, demy folio issue. A successful...
£8000
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HERMES TRISMEGISTUS; Marsilio FICINO, translator.
Liber de potestate et sapientia Dei …
[(Colophon:) Venice, Damianus de Mediolano,...
An attractive Venetian edition of the first...
£7500
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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
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RICHARDUS ANGLICUS.
Correctorium alchymiae ... Das is reformierte...
Strasbourg, Bernard Jobin, 1581.
First edition of ‘a very rare collection’...
£4500
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VISSCHER, Nicolaes [I].
...
Amsterdam, Nicolaus [I] Visscher, 1659.
First and only edition of this rare...
£3750
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WALCOTT, John.
The Figures, Description, and History of...
London, W. Justins for the Author, and...
First and only edition, very rare, published...
£3500
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BREREWOOD, Edward.
Enquiries touching the Diversity of Languages,...
London, Printed [by Eliot’s Court Press]...
First edition. Brerewood, professor of...
£3000
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CIUCCI, Antonio Filippo.
Promptuarium Chirurgicum in quo agitur...
Macerata, Joseph Piccinus, 1679–1680.
First edition, very rare, of this handbook...
£2850
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SECHENOV, Ivan Mikhaylovich.
Fisiologia nervnoy sistemy [in Cyrillic].
St. Petersburg, 1866.
first edition, rare, of Sechenov’s influential...
£2750
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MERCURIALE, Girolamo.
De arte gymnastica libri sex, in quibus...
Venice, [Lucantonio II] Giunta, 1587.
Third edition of ‘the first illustrated...
£2750
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SALADO GARCES Y RIBERA, Francisco.
Varias materias de diversas facultades,...
Utrera, Juan Malpartida, 1655.
Very rare first edition of this highly...
£2500
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MARTINENQ, Jean Baptiste Thomas.
Codex medicamentarius, seu pharmacopoea...
Paris, apud Guillelmum Cavelier, 1748.
Revised and enlarged edition (first 1638)...
£2500
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LOCATELLI, Lodovico.
Theatro d’Arcani … nel quale si tratta...
Milan, Gio. Pietro Ramellati, 1644.
First edition of Locatelli’s alchemical...
£2500
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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...
£2500
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RAIMONDI, Eugenio.
Delle caccie … libri Quattro, aggiuntovi’n...
[Naples, Lazzaro Scoriggio, 1626.]
Second edition, expanded and extended,...
£2500