[Stock catalogues, numbered series: 1038] Science & medicine
London, Bernard Quaritch Ltd, 1984
(24 cm), 106 (2) pp., illustrations. 214 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. ¶ Date stamp on first page: Received 19 May 1984. Spine of wrapper slightly worn, rubbed.
[Stock catalogues, numbered series: 1186] Arabic science and medicine : a collection of manuscripts and early printed books illustrating the spread and influence of Arabic learning in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
London, Bernard Quaritch Ltd, 1994
(24 cm), 123 (1) pp., illustrations (some in colour). 53 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Introduction (pp.3-6) by Charles S.F. Burnett of the Warburg Institute, University of London. ¶ Minor shelf wear.
(24 cm), 80 pp., illustrations (some in colour). 85 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Includes (item 64) the Silvester Rattray (fl. 1665-1710) - Walter Bowman (d. 1782) copy of Newton’s Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica (1687). ¶ Minor shelf wear.
[Stock catalogues, numbered series: 1300] Cryptography : a collection of books and manuscripts
London, Bernard Quaritch Ltd, 2002
(24 cm), [64] pp., illustrations (some in colour). [30] items; price for the collection £145,000. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - Catalogue of a collection assembled by David Kahn, author of The Codebreakers: the story of secret writing (1966), with an introduction by the collector recounting the growth of his interest in the subject. Noticed in The Book Collector, Winter 2003, pp.555-556. ¶ As new.
Bernard Quaritch Ltd (London)
Eco (Umberto), 1932-2016
[Stock catalogues, numbered series: 1322] The art of memory
London, Bernard Quaritch Ltd, 2004
(24 cm), [88] pp., illustrations (some in colour). 56 items. Price list loosely inserted. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - With an introduction by Umberto Eco. Noticed in The Book Collector, Winter 2004, p.581. ¶ As new.
(27 cm), [136] pp., illustrations (most in colour). 32 items; not priced. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - Preface by Alastair Hamilton; compiled by Detlev Auvermann. “650 copies have been printed of which 150, case-bound, are for sale” (colophon). Noticed in The Book Collector, Summer 2007, pp.245-246. ¶ As new.