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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.
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  1. ARCHIMEDES.

    Τα μεχρι νυν σωζομενα, απαντα … Opera, quae quidem extant, omnia, multis iam seculis desiderata...

    Basel, Johannes Herwagen, [(colophon): March] 1544.

    Editio princeps of the works of Archimedes, ‘the greatest mathematician and engineer of antiquity’ (PMM). Prior to this edition only a small tract in Latin translation, published in 1503, and a partial translation by Tartaglia, published in 1543, had appeared.

    £45000

  2. BULLA, Paolo.

    Notizie intorno all’osservatorio privato di Paolo Bulla.

    Rome, Tipografia della R. Accademia dei Lincei, 1885.

    First and only edition, very rare, of this description of Paolo Bulla’s private observatory, illustrated with five striking chromolithographic plates depicting astronomical events observed by Bulla in the sky above Rome, printed by the Accademia dei Lincei.

    £1250

  3. FINÉ, Oronce.

    Opere di Orontio Fineo … divise in cinque parti, arimetica, geometria, cosmografia, e orivoli, tradotte da Cosimo...

    Venice, Francesco Franceschi, 1587.

    First edition in Italian of the works of Oronce Finé, including the translations of his Protomathesis (1532) on arithmetic, geometry, cosmography, and sundials, and De speculo ustorio (1551) on burning mirrors, the only time all five texts appear together in any vernacular language.

    £2750

  4. [GUARINI, Giambattista Lascaris].

    Ragionamenti filosofici.

    Rome, Gioacchino Puccinelli, 1785[-6].

    Only edition, very uncommon, of this collection of 33 essays on scientific and philosophical subjects, published with the aspiration to provide a complete course of physics and philosophy. The work is divided into four parts. The first deals with materialism and idealism, the physical attributes of bodies,...

    £875

  5. HOPKINS, William. 

    Address delivered at the Hull Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, September...

    London, Taylor & Francis, 1853. 

    First edition, an 1853 Address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science by its President William Hopkins (1793–1866), inscribed by the author and given to his erstwhile student Francis Galton (1822–1911).  A mathematician and geologist, Hopkins became President of the British Association...

    £350

  6. [INCUNABLE SAMMELBAND.]

    Sammelband of ten works.

    Rome, Stephan Plannck and Eucharius Silber, c. 1481–1491.

    A sammelband of ten Roman incunables, nine of which printed by Stephan Plannck, covering subjects from astronomy to usury, holy water to marriage, and ending with St Antoninus’s manual for confessors; with annotations showing the early ownership of a scholar/practitioner of canon law or a confessor,...

    £25000

  7. [ROYAL PRUSSIAN SOCIETY OF SCIENCES.]

    Miscellanea berolinensia ad incrementum scientiarum, ex scriptis societati regiae scientiarum...

    Berlin, Johann Christoph Papen, 1723.

    First continuation of Leibniz’s Miscellanea berolinensia, the scientific periodical of the Royal Prussian Society of Sciences, comprising articles on literature, mathematics, and mechanics.

    £575

  8. SACROBOSCO, Johannes de; Francesco GIUNTINI, editor.

    Sphaera Ioannis de Sacro Bosco emendata. Cum additionibus in margine...

    Antwerp, heirs of Arnold Birckmann, 1566.

    A richly annotated and illustrated copy of Sacrobosco’s textbook of astronomy, with additions by Élie Vinet and Pedro Nuñes, edited by Francesco Giuntini.

    £3000

  9. [SACROBOSCO, Johannes de.]

    CLAVIUS, Christophorus. In sphaeram Ioannis de Sacro Bosco commentarius, nunc iterum ab ipso Auctore...

    Rome, Francesco Zanetti for Domenico Basa, 1581.

    Third edition, the first to contain Clavius’s condemnation of Copernicus, with ten highly detailed woodcut diagrams of solar and lunar eclipses not included in the first edition.

    £2500

  10. SHŌKOKU Dōjin 勝圀道人, pseud. [KAMURO An’e 禿安慧].

    護法新論 [Gohō shinron; ‘A New Treatise in Defence...

    [Japan], Seimeikan, (colophon:) Keiō 3 [1867].

    First edition, very rare, of this illustrated attack on Western cosmology in favour of Buddhist astronomy published in pre-Meiji Japan.

    £1250