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.-
BAKER, Humfrey.
The Well Sprynge of Sciences which teacheth...
London, Roland Hall for James Rowbotham, 1562.
The extremely rare first edition (one of...
£35000
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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
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EUCLID.
Στοιχειων βιβλ. ιε εκ...
Basel, Johannes Herwagen, September 1533.
Editio princeps of Euclid, the ‘oldest...
£18000
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LUNESCHLOS, Joannes de.
Thesaurus mathematum reseratus per algebram...
Padua, Giulio Crivellari, 1646.
An uncommon mathematical text, written...
£8500
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TARTAGLIA, Niccolò Fontana.
Quesiti, et inventioni diverse.
[(Colophon:) Venice, Venturino Ruffinelli...
First edition, annotated throughout by...
£6750
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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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EUCLID; Jean MAGNIEN and Stephanus GRACILIS, editors.
Euclidis elementorum libri XV Graece et...
Paris, Guillaume Cavellat, 1557.
First edition of Euclid’s Elements...
£5500
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DEPARCIEUX, Antoine.
Essai sur les probabilités de la durée...
Paris, chez les frères Guerin, 1746.
A large, crisp, and illustrious copy of...
£3000
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FINÉ, Oronce.
Opere di Orontio Fineo … divise in cinque...
Venice, Francesco Franceschi, 1587.
First edition in Italian of the works of...
£2750
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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
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BOSE, Johann Andreas.
Io. Andr. Bosii introductio generalis...
Jenae, Johann Bielke, 1676.
First edition of a pioneering work of statistics...
£1500
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BALLARIN, Vincenzo.
Dimostrazione sintetica della quadratura...
Venice, Fracasso, 1828.
First and only edition of this confident...
£900
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GOSSELIN, Charles-Robert.
Plan d’éducation, en réponse aux académies...
Amsterdam, 1785.
A most interesting sammelband of three...
£875
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SACCHI, Giovenale.
Del numero e delle misure delle corde musiche...
Milan, [Giuseppe Mazzucchelli (colophon),]...
First edition of Sacchi’s first work:...
£850
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POPE, William.
Manuscript arithmetic schoolbook.
[Tiverton?] ‘Sunday Octr...
A manuscript arithmetic schoolbook belonging...
£850
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RIEMANN, Georg Friedrich Bernhard.
Ein Beitrag zu den Untersuchungen über...
Göttingen, Dieterichsche Buchhandlung, 1861.
the very rare offprint issue from the abhandlungen...
£750
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MITTAG-LEFFLER, Gösta.
Sur la représentation analytique d’une...
Stockholm, 1899–1909.
First edition of this important series...
£750
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MARZAGLIA, Gaetano.
Fascetto di pratiche matematiche spiegate...
Verona, Dionisio Ramanzini, 1780.
A lovely copy of the second edition, considerably...
£650
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[ROYAL PRUSSIAN SOCIETY OF SCIENCES.]
Miscellanea berolinensia ad incrementum...
Berlin, Johann Christoph Papen, 1723.
First continuation of Leibniz’s Miscellanea...
£575
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QUETELET, M. A.
Letters Addressed to H. R. H. the Grand...
London, Charles & Edwin Layton, 1849.
First edition in English. ‘This book...
£550