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
I spy with my little eye ... Archimedes standing on a map and looking up at the heavens! This striking woodcut, for Day 8 of our Advent Calendar, comes from the first apperance in print of any complete work by Archimedes (28 August 1503), including one of the earliest approximations of pi.
December 8, 2025 at 9:01 AM
I spy with my little eye ... Archimedes standing on a map and looking up at the heavens! This striking woodcut, for Day 8 of our Advent Calendar, comes from the first apperance in print of any complete work by Archimedes (28 August 1503), including one of the earliest approximations of pi.
🏰 ⚔️ 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.
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.
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).
✈️ 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.
The Internet informs us that today is #InternationalBaconDay … they did mean English philosopher Francis Bacon (1561–1626), right?
September 6, 2025 at 8:30 AM
The Internet informs us that today is #InternationalBaconDay … they did mean English philosopher Francis Bacon (1561–1626), right?
👋 Just one week until the York Book Fair opens! Come say hello at Stand 30 – register for complimentary tickets here: yorkbookfair.com/complimentar...
Where: Stand 30, Knavesmire Suite, York Racecourse, York YO23 1EX
When: Friday 12 September and Saturday 13 September
Where: Stand 30, Knavesmire Suite, York Racecourse, York YO23 1EX
When: Friday 12 September and Saturday 13 September
September 5, 2025 at 11:30 AM
👋 Just one week until the York Book Fair opens! Come say hello at Stand 30 – register for complimentary tickets here: yorkbookfair.com/complimentar...
Where: Stand 30, Knavesmire Suite, York Racecourse, York YO23 1EX
When: Friday 12 September and Saturday 13 September
Where: Stand 30, Knavesmire Suite, York Racecourse, York YO23 1EX
When: Friday 12 September and Saturday 13 September
'Hateful day when I received life! Cursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?' Mary Shelley, born 228 years ago #OTD, developed a keen interest in galvanism and the reanimation of the dead whilst writing Frankenstein. bit.ly/Q-Creve-H5445 🧵
August 30, 2025 at 8:15 AM
'Hateful day when I received life! Cursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?' Mary Shelley, born 228 years ago #OTD, developed a keen interest in galvanism and the reanimation of the dead whilst writing Frankenstein. bit.ly/Q-Creve-H5445 🧵
You've heard of Faust & Werther, but did you know that Goethe was also the author of a play about a throuple? Written at the age of 27, Stella (1776) ends with Stella, Cecilia, and Fernando finding love in 'one home, one bed, and one grave'. bit.ly/Q-Goethe-G1181
August 28, 2025 at 8:15 AM
You've heard of Faust & Werther, but did you know that Goethe was also the author of a play about a throuple? Written at the age of 27, Stella (1776) ends with Stella, Cecilia, and Fernando finding love in 'one home, one bed, and one grave'. bit.ly/Q-Goethe-G1181
Fun ways to spend your bank holiday:
- Cooking for friends and family (note: cooking friends and family generally frowned upon)
- Stealing a large pig and replacing it with a pig-shaped decoy
- Glaring at cyclists who don't stop at red lights
- Having a night on the town
- Cooking for friends and family (note: cooking friends and family generally frowned upon)
- Stealing a large pig and replacing it with a pig-shaped decoy
- Glaring at cyclists who don't stop at red lights
- Having a night on the town
August 25, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Fun ways to spend your bank holiday:
- Cooking for friends and family (note: cooking friends and family generally frowned upon)
- Stealing a large pig and replacing it with a pig-shaped decoy
- Glaring at cyclists who don't stop at red lights
- Having a night on the town
- Cooking for friends and family (note: cooking friends and family generally frowned upon)
- Stealing a large pig and replacing it with a pig-shaped decoy
- Glaring at cyclists who don't stop at red lights
- Having a night on the town