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Featured Stock Update

Please browse the Islamic manuscripts recently added to our Stock Features page. Illustrated here is an 18th century copy of a treatise on jihad containing a detailed discussion of…
 

We have moved

After 40 years of bookselling on the level plain of a former textile warehouse at Golden Square, Quaritch has moved premises to enjoy a new life in a late 19th-century townhouse in Mayfair.  Our…
 

Trinity in the City 'Insights' Meeting

Quaritch is pleased to host the next 'Insights' meeting for alumni of Trinity College Cambridge on Thursday 22 October.  The event will start with a drinks reception at 6.30…
 

LIBRI PROIBITI

'Libri Proibiti': an exhibition of censored, banned and suppressed books.  Cortona, Tuscany, Summer 2009.  Quaritch is pleased to announce that a selection of books from our…
 

New publication

Terry Bennett, History of photography in China 1842-1860.  The first comprehensive history of the earliest years of photography in China, combining previously unpublished research with over 150…
 

BQ/OK

From 4 June to 17 July 2009 Quaritch will be holding an exhibition to mark the double anniversary of the birth of Edward FitzGerald (1809-1883), and the publication of Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by…
 

Roger Mayne at 80: a celebratory exhibition of photographs

Roger Mayne (born Cambridge, 1929) became seriously interested in photography while studying for his degree in Chemistry at Balliol College, Oxford.  A few months after he graduated in 1951, six…
 

Tianshu - Passages in the Making of a Book

An exhibition on Xu Bing's Book from the Sky opens on 18 March 2009 at Quaritch.  A book of over 4,000 imaginary characters carved over a period of three years, the Tianshu, or Book from the…
 

Milan book fair

We will be exhibiting at the 20th Mostra del Libro Antico at Milan (13-15 March, Palazzo della Permanente, Via Turati 34, Milan).  Please visit us at stand 5.  For further information,…
 

New York book fair

We will be exhibiting at this year's New York Antiquarian Book Fair (Friday 3 April to Sunday 5 April) taking place at the Park Avenue Armory (Park Avenue and 67th…
 

Book fair

We will be exhibiting at the 42nd California International Antiquarian Book Fair (13-15 February 2009) taking place in San Francisco (Concourse Exhibition Center, 635 Eighth Street, San…
 

Art fair

We will be exhibiting a selection of photographs at the Watercolours and Drawings Fair 2009 (4-8 February at The Flower Cellars, 4-6 Russell Street, Covent Garden, London).  For further…
 

New publication

HEADLAND, Robert Keith.  A Chronology of Antarctic Exploration: A synopsis of events and activities from the earliest times until the International Polar Years, 2007–09.  [London],…
 

Hong Kong Book Fair 2009

We will be exhibiting at the Second Hong Kong International Antiquarian Book Fair (17-19 January 2009, Hong Kong Exhibition Centre, 26 Harbour Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong).  Please visit us at booth…
 

Paris Photo 2008

We will be exhibiting at Paris Photo 2008 (13-16 November, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris).  Please visit us at booth J03, Salle Soufflot.  For further information, please contact us at…
 

In memoriam: Milo Parmoor (1929-2008)

Obituaries: The Independent; The Times; The Daily Telegraph
 

ABA Summer Exhibition 2008: Women and the Book

From 8 to 20 August Quaritch will be hosting a major selling exhibition, presented jointly by the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association and the Women’s Library, on the theme of women and…
 

Exhibition - Bill Brandt: vintage photographs and books

Bill Brandt (1904-1983) was the pre-eminent British photographer of his time.  The international reach of his books and exhibitions influenced a generation of photographers.  The photographs…
 

Exhibition: Islamic Manuscripts and Middle Eastern Travels

From 2 to 25 April Quaritch will be holding an exhibition of Islamic manuscripts.  Included will be manuscripts of Muslim scholarly texts together with a selection of fine…
 

Exhibition: China then and now

From 4 to 20 March 2008 Quaritch will be holding an exhibition of Chinese photographs covering the period 1945-2004.  Since the end of the Chinese Civil War (1945–49) the place of…
 

New publication

RENNIE, Neil.  Pocahontas, Little Wanton: myth, life and afterlife.  [London], Quaritch, 2007.  8vo (215 x 140 mm), pp. xii, 209, with 12 full-page illustrations (one folding); title…
 

Paris Photo 2007

By invitation of Galerie Baudoin Lebon, we will be exhibiting at Paris Photo 2007 (15-18 November, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris).  For futher information, please contact us at…
 

New catalogue

WITTGENSTEIN: A LIFE IN BOOKS AND LETTERS.  We are pleased to offer in this catalogue a remarkable gathering of autograph letters, annotated or inscribed books, and other artefacts, centred…
 

Quaritch Summer Exhibition

This year's summer exhibition at Quaritch brings together the work of ten photographers who have worked within a particular community or urban area: Hill & Adamson, Thomas Annan, John Thomson,…
 

New Catalogue

Our new illustrated catalogue of Americana describes 182 items relating to the Americas, North and South, in English, Spanish and other languages.  Among the highlights are such classics as…
 

Forthcoming book fair

We are exhibiting at this year's Paris Book Fair (27-29 April) taking place at the Grand Palais, Avenue Winston Churchill, 75008 Paris.  Please visit us at stand B18-20.
 

New catalogue

Rights of War, Rights of Peace: The Rise and Fall of Empires and Republics, The Origins of Nations and Peoples, 1500-1800.In the period covered by the books offered in this catalogue Europe…
 

Lecture

Martin Davies, 'The influence of the Venetian Printing House of Aldus Manutius'.  Aldus Manutius ran one of the most influential printing houses in Renaissance Europe.  Dr Martin…
 

Latest catalogue

With our most recent catalogue, no. 1344, we are pleased to establish our new specialization in books and manuscripts relating to music.  Among the 74 items contained in it are first editions of…
 

New publication

JACOBSON, Ken. Odalisques & Arabesques: Orientalist Photography 1839–1925. [London], Quaritch, 2007.4to (285 x 250 mm), pp. 308, with over 500 illustrations, including 85 full-page tritones;…
 

New publication

STODDARD, Roger. Jacques-Charles Brunet, Le Grand Bibliographe. A guide to the books he wrote, compiled, and edited and to the book-auction catalogues he expertised.[London], Quaritch, 2007.8vo (220 x…
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