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. BAKER, Humfrey.

    The Well Sprynge of Sciences which teacheth...

    London, Roland Hall for James Rowbotham, 1562.

    The extremely rare first edition (one of...

    £35000

  2. EUCLID.

    Στοιχειων βιβλ. ιε εκ...

    Basel, Johannes Herwagen, September 1533.

    Editio princeps of Euclid, the ‘oldest...

    £18000

  3. ARCHIMEDES, BOETHIUS, and CAMPANO da Novara; Luca GAURICO, editor.

    Tetragonismus id est circuli quadratura...

    Venice, [Giacomo Penzio for] Giovanni...

    The first appearance in print of any complete...

    £18000

  4. TARTAGLIA, Niccolò Fontana.

    Quesiti, et inventioni diverse.

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

    First edition, annotated throughout by...

    £6750

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

    Euclidis elementorum libri XV Graece et...

    Paris, Guillaume Cavellat, 1557.

    First edition of Euclid’s Elements...

    £5500

  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 edition in Italian of the works of...

    £2750

  8. 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...

    £2750

  9. BOSE, Johann Andreas.

    Io. Andr. Bosii introductio generalis...

    Jenae, Johann Bielke, 1676.

    First edition of a pioneering work of statistics...

    £1500

  10. BALLARIN, Vincenzo. 

    Dimostrazione sintetica della quadratura...

    Venice, Fracasso, 1828. 

    First and only edition of this confident...

    £900

  11. GOSSELIN, Charles-Robert.

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

    Amsterdam, 1785.

    A most interesting sammelband of three...

    £875

  12. SACCHI, Giovenale. 

    Del numero e delle misure delle corde musiche...

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

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

    £850

  13. POPE, William.

    Manuscript arithmetic schoolbook.

    [Tiverton?] ‘Sunday Octr...

    A manuscript arithmetic schoolbook belonging...

    £850

  14. MITTAG-LEFFLER, Gösta.

    Sur la représentation analytique d’une...

    Stockholm, 1899–1909.

    First edition of this important series...

    £750

  15. SMITH, Samuel.

    Aditus ad logicam. In usum eorum qui primò...

    Oxford, Henry Hall for Richard Davis, 1649.

    A sammelband of two seventeenth-century...

    £675

  16. MARZAGLIA, Gaetano.

    Fascetto di pratiche matematiche spiegate...

    Verona, Dionisio Ramanzini, 1780.

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

    £650

  17. QUETELET, M. A.

    Letters Addressed to H. R. H. the Grand...

    London, Charles & Edwin Layton, 1849.

    First edition in English. ‘This book...

    £550

  18. HOPKINS, William. 

    Address delivered at the Hull Meeting of...

    London, Taylor & Francis, 1853. 

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

    £350

  19. JEVONS, William Stanley.

    ‘Preliminary account of certain logical...

    London, Longman, Green, Reader, & Dyer;...

    First edition of the account of Professor...

    £350

  20. 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