Bernard Quaritch Ltd
@quaritch1847.bsky.social
Rare books and manuscripts since 1847. Visitors welcome 10-6 daily; catalogues issued regularly (https://bit.ly/Q-stayintouch).
www.quaritch.com ❧ [email protected] ❧ +44 (0)20 7297 4888 ❧
36 Bedford Row, London WC1R 4JH
www.quaritch.com ❧ [email protected] ❧ +44 (0)20 7297 4888 ❧
36 Bedford Row, London WC1R 4JH
🏰 ⚔️ Day 7 of our Advent Calendar is a handsomely illustrated treatise on the chivalric Order of the Golden Fleece (est. 1430), composed by a prominent member of the order for Charles the Bold, son of the order's founder, featuring woodcut illustrations of battling knights and of the author at work.
December 7, 2025 at 9:01 AM
🏰 ⚔️ Day 7 of our Advent Calendar is a handsomely illustrated treatise on the chivalric Order of the Golden Fleece (est. 1430), composed by a prominent member of the order for Charles the Bold, son of the order's founder, featuring woodcut illustrations of battling knights and of the author at work.
Curated by specialist Barbara Scalvini, our latest catalogue, PPE, features 80 items from our Human Sciences dept, showcasing a variety of angles of reflection on society, knowledge, order, & progress, from the visionary to the pragmatic, the metaphysical to the mathematical ... bit.ly/Q-PPE-2025
December 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Curated by specialist Barbara Scalvini, our latest catalogue, PPE, features 80 items from our Human Sciences dept, showcasing a variety of angles of reflection on society, knowledge, order, & progress, from the visionary to the pragmatic, the metaphysical to the mathematical ... bit.ly/Q-PPE-2025
🥱✒️ Students have been doodling in the margins of their books for centuries ... these juvenile illustrations, for Day 6 of our Advent Calendar, come from this rare 1486 devotional account of the life of St Jerome. Printed at the first printshop in Delft, our copy features early English provenance (!)
December 6, 2025 at 9:01 AM
🥱✒️ Students have been doodling in the margins of their books for centuries ... these juvenile illustrations, for Day 6 of our Advent Calendar, come from this rare 1486 devotional account of the life of St Jerome. Printed at the first printshop in Delft, our copy features early English provenance (!)
🐲 Here be dragons ... Day 5 of our Advent Calendar is a rare #incunable compilation of sermons, printed in Gouda in 1482, our copy in a contemporary Netherlandish blind-stamped binding featuring a cockfight, dragons, and fleur-de-lys tools.
December 5, 2025 at 2:40 PM
🐲 Here be dragons ... Day 5 of our Advent Calendar is a rare #incunable compilation of sermons, printed in Gouda in 1482, our copy in a contemporary Netherlandish blind-stamped binding featuring a cockfight, dragons, and fleur-de-lys tools.
Q specialists Alex Day & Andrea Mazzocchi in conversation with Massimiliano Lacertosa @asiasociety.org in Hong Kong on our 1530 Marco Polo manuscript, one of the last copies in private hands, produced at Westminster by a Continental scribe & likely first owned by one of Henry VIII’s chaplains.
December 4, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Q specialists Alex Day & Andrea Mazzocchi in conversation with Massimiliano Lacertosa @asiasociety.org in Hong Kong on our 1530 Marco Polo manuscript, one of the last copies in private hands, produced at Westminster by a Continental scribe & likely first owned by one of Henry VIII’s chaplains.
⚔️ This magnificent miniature of a daring knight charging on horseback, for Day 4 of our Advent Calendar, has been bound into a 1503 Vergier d'honneur, a celebration of Charles VIII's expedition to Italy (bonus points if you can spot the frog!)
December 4, 2025 at 9:00 AM
⚔️ This magnificent miniature of a daring knight charging on horseback, for Day 4 of our Advent Calendar, has been bound into a 1503 Vergier d'honneur, a celebration of Charles VIII's expedition to Italy (bonus points if you can spot the frog!)
🐬⚜️ These charming title-page decorations, for Day 3 of our Advent Calendar, feature a fleur-de-lys and an armorial between two dolphins, from a Lyons counterfeit of Caesar's commentaries, imitating the style of Aldus's portable octavos but predating the first Aldine Caesar by five years.
December 3, 2025 at 9:00 AM
🐬⚜️ These charming title-page decorations, for Day 3 of our Advent Calendar, feature a fleur-de-lys and an armorial between two dolphins, from a Lyons counterfeit of Caesar's commentaries, imitating the style of Aldus's portable octavos but predating the first Aldine Caesar by five years.
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I have 100% found my advent calendar 👀:
Beneath this beautiful Parisian fanfare binding for Day 2 of our Advent Calendar of early European books is the 1570 Plantin Book of Hours, one of only six known copies printed on vellum 😍
December 2, 2025 at 10:47 AM
I have 100% found my advent calendar 👀:
Beneath this beautiful Parisian fanfare binding for Day 2 of our Advent Calendar of early European books is the 1570 Plantin Book of Hours, one of only six known copies printed on vellum 😍
December 2, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Beneath this beautiful Parisian fanfare binding for Day 2 of our Advent Calendar of early European books is the 1570 Plantin Book of Hours, one of only six known copies printed on vellum 😍
This portrait of pioneering printer and bookbinder T.J. Cobden-Sanderson of the Doves Press – born #otd in 1840 – lives in our Human Sciences department. The beautiful typeface pictured here is the Doves Type, the punches and matrices for which Cobden-Sanderson infamously threw into the Thames.
December 2, 2025 at 9:01 AM
This portrait of pioneering printer and bookbinder T.J. Cobden-Sanderson of the Doves Press – born #otd in 1840 – lives in our Human Sciences department. The beautiful typeface pictured here is the Doves Type, the punches and matrices for which Cobden-Sanderson infamously threw into the Thames.
🎶🎄 It's the mooost wonderful tiiime of the year (the start of this year's Quaritch book-themed Advent Calendar, of course). Stay tuned for a surprise each day from our forthcoming Continental catalogue, kicking off with Stagnino's lovely heart-shaped printer's device from this 1503 Virgil.
December 1, 2025 at 5:30 PM
🎶🎄 It's the mooost wonderful tiiime of the year (the start of this year's Quaritch book-themed Advent Calendar, of course). Stay tuned for a surprise each day from our forthcoming Continental catalogue, kicking off with Stagnino's lovely heart-shaped printer's device from this 1503 Virgil.
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November 22, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Scriptores rei rusticae. Venice: Nicolaus Jenson, 1472
The first printed edition of this compendium of classical texts on agriculture and rural life. This volume actually comprises two separate copies attached together to make one complete whole. 2/7
The first printed edition of this compendium of classical texts on agriculture and rural life. This volume actually comprises two separate copies attached together to make one complete whole. 2/7
November 20, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Scriptores rei rusticae. Venice: Nicolaus Jenson, 1472
The first printed edition of this compendium of classical texts on agriculture and rural life. This volume actually comprises two separate copies attached together to make one complete whole. 2/7
The first printed edition of this compendium of classical texts on agriculture and rural life. This volume actually comprises two separate copies attached together to make one complete whole. 2/7
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Despite being a frankenbook, it preserves a trove of very early evidence (illuminated initials, marginalia, identifiable early binding). It also comes with about 300 years of unbroken provenance, which is important for us -- a public library -- as we look to model ethical acquisition practices. 3/7
November 20, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Despite being a frankenbook, it preserves a trove of very early evidence (illuminated initials, marginalia, identifiable early binding). It also comes with about 300 years of unbroken provenance, which is important for us -- a public library -- as we look to model ethical acquisition practices. 3/7
Franz Schubert died #OTD in 1828, aged only 31. Rückert's Die Weisheit des Brahmanen, pictured here, inspired Schubert, Schumann, Mahler, and many others. Schubert's famous Lied 'Du bist die Ruh' sets to music Rückert's poem of the same name (although Rückert later renamed it 'Kehr' ein bei mir).
November 19, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Franz Schubert died #OTD in 1828, aged only 31. Rückert's Die Weisheit des Brahmanen, pictured here, inspired Schubert, Schumann, Mahler, and many others. Schubert's famous Lied 'Du bist die Ruh' sets to music Rückert's poem of the same name (although Rückert later renamed it 'Kehr' ein bei mir).
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It’s Book Collecting Seminar day @ies-sas.bsky.social and @quaritch1847.bsky.social #BookHistory and we’re hearing from Jonathan Nathan about the Cymbalum Mundi
November 11, 2025 at 6:10 PM
It’s Book Collecting Seminar day @ies-sas.bsky.social and @quaritch1847.bsky.social #BookHistory and we’re hearing from Jonathan Nathan about the Cymbalum Mundi
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Many thanks to @ies-sas.bsky.social graduate, Zachary Larsen, Charlotte Miller, and all the team @quaritch1847.bsky.social for welcoming our MA cohort so warmly today!
November 12, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Many thanks to @ies-sas.bsky.social graduate, Zachary Larsen, Charlotte Miller, and all the team @quaritch1847.bsky.social for welcoming our MA cohort so warmly today!
✈️ Today three of our booksellers are heading to Boston for the Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair! We hope to see many of you at Booth 508. For those of you who can't make it to the fair (or want a sneak peek!), our catalogue of highlights for the fair can be found here: bit.ly/Q-Boston2025
November 4, 2025 at 9:30 AM
✈️ Today three of our booksellers are heading to Boston for the Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair! We hope to see many of you at Booth 508. For those of you who can't make it to the fair (or want a sneak peek!), our catalogue of highlights for the fair can be found here: bit.ly/Q-Boston2025
☠️ We are pleased to present our latest catalogue on Death, a selection of spooky sammelbands, mysterious manuscripts, blood-curdling broadsides, and much more besides. bit.ly/Q-Death2025
November 3, 2025 at 10:45 AM
☠️ We are pleased to present our latest catalogue on Death, a selection of spooky sammelbands, mysterious manuscripts, blood-curdling broadsides, and much more besides. bit.ly/Q-Death2025
This rare Parisian edition of the works of Bernard of Clairvaux, printed in 1571/2, is preserved in a contemporary Spanish plateresca binding with elaborate fore-edge decoration.👋 On stand 23 at the Chelsea Book Fair, open until 5pm
November 1, 2025 at 9:00 AM
This rare Parisian edition of the works of Bernard of Clairvaux, printed in 1571/2, is preserved in a contemporary Spanish plateresca binding with elaborate fore-edge decoration.👋 On stand 23 at the Chelsea Book Fair, open until 5pm
🎃 Happy Halloween! This appropriately spooky binding comes from a sammelband of works on the guillotine, containing thirteen items on its invention, history, use, and physiological effects.
October 31, 2025 at 12:30 PM
🎃 Happy Halloween! This appropriately spooky binding comes from a sammelband of works on the guillotine, containing thirteen items on its invention, history, use, and physiological effects.
👋 Just a few hours until the Chelsea Book fair opens to the public ... we're looking forward to seeing many of you at stand 23 (on the left as you come in) – do come and say hello!
📆 Friday, 31 Oct (2pm–7pm) & Saturday 1 November (11am–5pm)
🎟️ Free tickets: firsts.artsvp.com/84d91f?link=...
📆 Friday, 31 Oct (2pm–7pm) & Saturday 1 November (11am–5pm)
🎟️ Free tickets: firsts.artsvp.com/84d91f?link=...
October 31, 2025 at 10:15 AM
👋 Just a few hours until the Chelsea Book fair opens to the public ... we're looking forward to seeing many of you at stand 23 (on the left as you come in) – do come and say hello!
📆 Friday, 31 Oct (2pm–7pm) & Saturday 1 November (11am–5pm)
🎟️ Free tickets: firsts.artsvp.com/84d91f?link=...
📆 Friday, 31 Oct (2pm–7pm) & Saturday 1 November (11am–5pm)
🎟️ Free tickets: firsts.artsvp.com/84d91f?link=...
Niche Halloween costume ideas:
- Dapper skeleton couple in evening dress
- Skeleton trio playing on a see-saw using a coffin as a lever
- Footloose (afterlife edition)
- Danse macabre featuring 15-odd friends (top hats optional)
BERDON, Maurice. La danse macabre. [Paris, Dobelle, January 1931.]
- Dapper skeleton couple in evening dress
- Skeleton trio playing on a see-saw using a coffin as a lever
- Footloose (afterlife edition)
- Danse macabre featuring 15-odd friends (top hats optional)
BERDON, Maurice. La danse macabre. [Paris, Dobelle, January 1931.]
October 28, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Niche Halloween costume ideas:
- Dapper skeleton couple in evening dress
- Skeleton trio playing on a see-saw using a coffin as a lever
- Footloose (afterlife edition)
- Danse macabre featuring 15-odd friends (top hats optional)
BERDON, Maurice. La danse macabre. [Paris, Dobelle, January 1931.]
- Dapper skeleton couple in evening dress
- Skeleton trio playing on a see-saw using a coffin as a lever
- Footloose (afterlife edition)
- Danse macabre featuring 15-odd friends (top hats optional)
BERDON, Maurice. La danse macabre. [Paris, Dobelle, January 1931.]
Everyone has bad days, even Coleridge, who, in a fit of despair, planned to 'bid farewell forever' to poetry at the age of twenty-two. This unpublished autograph letter marks a key moment of transition in the poet's life. bit.ly/Q-Coleridge2...
September 8, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Everyone has bad days, even Coleridge, who, in a fit of despair, planned to 'bid farewell forever' to poetry at the age of twenty-two. This unpublished autograph letter marks a key moment of transition in the poet's life. bit.ly/Q-Coleridge2...
🕰️ This beautifully printed collection of 71 shorter works by Thomas Aquinas was published 535 years ago #onthisday.
📖 THOMAS AQUINAS; Antonius PIZAMANUS, editor. Opuscula [with a life of St Thomas].Venice, Hermannus Liechtenstein, 7 September 1490.
📖 THOMAS AQUINAS; Antonius PIZAMANUS, editor. Opuscula [with a life of St Thomas].Venice, Hermannus Liechtenstein, 7 September 1490.
September 7, 2025 at 8:30 AM
🕰️ This beautifully printed collection of 71 shorter works by Thomas Aquinas was published 535 years ago #onthisday.
📖 THOMAS AQUINAS; Antonius PIZAMANUS, editor. Opuscula [with a life of St Thomas].Venice, Hermannus Liechtenstein, 7 September 1490.
📖 THOMAS AQUINAS; Antonius PIZAMANUS, editor. Opuscula [with a life of St Thomas].Venice, Hermannus Liechtenstein, 7 September 1490.