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. MILES, William J., J.I. LUPTON, and Benjamin HERRING (illustrator).

    Modern practical Farriery: A complete Guide...

    London, Glasgow, and Edinburgh, William...

    Miles’s comprehensive and generously...

    £350

  2. MILL, John Stuart, and Edward Livingston YOUMANS.

    Новѣйшее образованiе:...

    St Petersburg, Izdanie “Russkoi knizhnoi...

    First edition in Russian of these two works,...

    £100

  3. MITTAG-LEFFLER, Gösta.

    Sur la représentation analytique d’une...

    Stockholm, 1899–1909.

    First edition of this important series...

    £750

  4. MOREL DE RUBEMPRÉ, Joseph.

    Les secrets de la génération ou l’art...

    chez tous les libraires, [c. 1870].

    Joseph Morel de Rubempré’s (1812–86)...

    £150

  5. MORTON, John.

    The natural History of Northampton-Shire,...

    London, R. Knaplock and R. Wilkin, 1712.

    First edition of Morton’s systematic...

    £775

  6. MÖSSBAUER, Rudolf Ludwig.

    ‘Kernresonanzabsorption von Gammstrahlung...

    Berlin, Springer, November 1958.

    First appearance of Mössbauer’s PhD...

    £200

  7. MOXON, Joseph.

    A Tutor to Astronomie and Geographie: or...

    London, Joseph Moxon, 1659.

    First edition of Moxon’s Tutor,...

    £2000

  8. MÜLLER, Johann Baptist.

    Erfahrungssätze über die contagiöse...

    Mainz, Florian Kupferberg, 1821.

    A fine presentation copy of Müller’s...

    £350

  9. NEWTON, Isaac.

    Opticks: or, a Treatise of the Reflexions,...

    London, for Samuel Smith and Benjamin...

    First edition of Newton’s Opticks,...

    £70000

  10. NIGHTINGALE, Florence.

    Notes on Matters affecting the Health,...

    London, Harrison and Sons, 1858.

    First edition, printed for private circulation...

    £18000

  11. [NOVARA.]

    [Incipit:] Il vescovo di Novara...

    [Novara], 10 May 1805.

    An apparently unrecorded broadside from...

    £175

  12. OSBALDISTON, William Augustus.

    The British Sportsman, or Nobleman, Gentleman,...

    London, J. Stead for the Proprietor, and...

    First edition, issued in forty-two parts,...

    £650

  13. [PARKER, Richard Green; Junkichi KATAYAMA 片山 淳吉, editor.]

    物理階梯 [Butsuri kaitei; ‘A...

    Gifu Prefecture, Ministry of Education,...

    First edition, very rare, of Japan’s...

    £1750

  14. PARKER, Thomas Netherton.

    Leaves out of the Book of a Country Gentleman.

    Oswestry, W. Price, London, Longman &...

    First and only edition of this rare compilation...

    £1950

  15. PASCOLI, Alessandro.

    Nuovo metodo per introdursi ad imitazion...

    Venice, Andrea Poletti, 1721.

    Scarce second edition (first 1702) of this...

    £450

  16. PASTA, Giuseppe. 

    Della facoltà dell’oppio nelle malattie...

    Bergamo, dalla stamperia Antoine, 1788. 

    Very rare first edition of this treatise...

    £350

  17. PASTEUR, Louis.

    Visiting card with autograph note.

    [No place, undated.]

    With the autograph note ‘Avec ses remerciments...

    £400

  18. [PHARMACOPOEIA.]

    Apparatus medicaminum ad usum nosocomii...

    Pavia, Joseph Bolzani, [1790].

    Very rare first edition of this pharmacopoeia...

    £750

  19. POCOCKE, Richard. 

    A Description of the East, and some other...

    ...

    First edition, demy folio issue. A successful...

    £8000

  20. POPE, William.

    Manuscript arithmetic schoolbook.

    [Tiverton?] ‘Sunday Octr...

    A manuscript arithmetic schoolbook belonging...

    £850