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 ❧ rarebooks@quaritch.com ❧ +44 (0)20 7297 4888 ❧
36 Bedford Row, London WC1R 4JH
www.quaritch.com ❧ rarebooks@quaritch.com ❧ +44 (0)20 7297 4888 ❧
36 Bedford Row, London WC1R 4JH
✈️ 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
Happy Women in Translation month! This unpublished manuscript translation of the 1788 French pastoral romance Estelle was produced by a woman for a female friend in the early nineteenth century. (1/3 🧵 )
August 22, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Happy Women in Translation month! This unpublished manuscript translation of the 1788 French pastoral romance Estelle was produced by a woman for a female friend in the early nineteenth century. (1/3 🧵 )
524 years ago today in Milan, Giovanni Angelo Scinzenzeler printed this volume of Juvenal's satires for the papermaker, bookseller, and publisher Giovanni da Legnano. bit.ly/Q-Juvenal-G2...
August 17, 2025 at 8:15 AM
524 years ago today in Milan, Giovanni Angelo Scinzenzeler printed this volume of Juvenal's satires for the papermaker, bookseller, and publisher Giovanni da Legnano. bit.ly/Q-Juvenal-G2...
Today is Assumption Day! This very rare devotional work, printed in Rome in 1735, is dedicated to the Assumption of Mary into Heaven and guides the reader on a nine-day journey toward the Feast of the Assumption.
August 15, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Today is Assumption Day! This very rare devotional work, printed in Rome in 1735, is dedicated to the Assumption of Mary into Heaven and guides the reader on a nine-day journey toward the Feast of the Assumption.
Reposted by Bernard Quaritch Ltd
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God I so love the @quaritch1847.bsky.social Q on a parcel.
August 12, 2025 at 6:44 PM
God I so love the @quaritch1847.bsky.social Q on a parcel.
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In his diary in 1896, member of @theul.bsky.social staff Charles Sayle called this portrait ‘quite the most marvellous piece of engraving of the period that … I have seen’.
How we're feeling in this heat wave 🥵
This slumping scholar is the poet and playwright William Cartwright (1611–1643), a favourite of Charles I and a follower of Ben Jonson, who said that Cartwright 'writes like a man'.
This slumping scholar is the poet and playwright William Cartwright (1611–1643), a favourite of Charles I and a follower of Ben Jonson, who said that Cartwright 'writes like a man'.
August 12, 2025 at 1:32 PM
In his diary in 1896, member of @theul.bsky.social staff Charles Sayle called this portrait ‘quite the most marvellous piece of engraving of the period that … I have seen’.
How we're feeling in this heat wave 🥵
This slumping scholar is the poet and playwright William Cartwright (1611–1643), a favourite of Charles I and a follower of Ben Jonson, who said that Cartwright 'writes like a man'.
This slumping scholar is the poet and playwright William Cartwright (1611–1643), a favourite of Charles I and a follower of Ben Jonson, who said that Cartwright 'writes like a man'.
August 12, 2025 at 1:15 PM
How we're feeling in this heat wave 🥵
This slumping scholar is the poet and playwright William Cartwright (1611–1643), a favourite of Charles I and a follower of Ben Jonson, who said that Cartwright 'writes like a man'.
This slumping scholar is the poet and playwright William Cartwright (1611–1643), a favourite of Charles I and a follower of Ben Jonson, who said that Cartwright 'writes like a man'.
Silk, embroidery, enamel, silver filigree, and more ... which of these lovely little bindings is your favourite?
August 11, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Silk, embroidery, enamel, silver filigree, and more ... which of these lovely little bindings is your favourite?
Happy Book Lovers Day 📚 at Quaritch, we've been book lovers for a good 178 years (and counting)!
August 9, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Happy Book Lovers Day 📚 at Quaritch, we've been book lovers for a good 178 years (and counting)!
How it started / how it's going ...
August 8, 2025 at 2:30 PM
How it started / how it's going ...
Big day for Machiavelli apologists ... #OTD in 1794, the soldier & politician Giovanni Battista Baldelli Boni gave a speech in Florence defending the author of The Prince; Ugo Foscolo would call Baldelli 'the only one who did justice to so great a man' (trans.). bit.ly/Q-Baldelli-H...
August 7, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Big day for Machiavelli apologists ... #OTD in 1794, the soldier & politician Giovanni Battista Baldelli Boni gave a speech in Florence defending the author of The Prince; Ugo Foscolo would call Baldelli 'the only one who did justice to so great a man' (trans.). bit.ly/Q-Baldelli-H...