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PublishingAfter a gap of many years, Quaritch is pleased to mark its re-establishment in the field of publishing. We have now published several works, details of which can be found below. We also distribute a number of publications for the Roxburghe Club.
4to (250 x 190 mm), pp. [192], with numerous black and white illustrations; blue cloth, pictorial dust-jacket. £50
A hardback reprint, limited to 200 copies, of our 1996 catalogue of books written by Jesuit authors or relating to the Society of Jesus,
which has long been unavailable and has become sought after as a permanent reference work.
ISBN-10: 0 9550852 1 7.
4to., (248 x 238mm), pp. xiv, 242, with over 150 illustrations £50
The first comprehensive history of the earliest years of photography in China, combining previously
unpublished research with over 150 photographs, many of which are attributed and published here for the first time.
Terry Bennett describes the way in which the discovery of photography in China was framed against the tumultuous backdrop of the Opium Wars, the Taiping Rebellion and the opening of numerous treaty ports to foreign trade. From 1842, when the use of a camera was first recorded in China, foreign and Chinese photographers captured the people, places and events of this unsettled period. They were professional portraitists, soldiers and pioneering amateurs, among them: Jules Itier; Pierre Rossier; Lo Yuanyou (the earliest-recorded Chinese commercial photographer); Felix Beato; and Milton Miller. The author, an acclaimed international authority on historical photographs from China, Japan and Korea, sheds new light on the unique historical value of these photographs. The images are drawn from institutional and private collections from all over the world. The text includes extensive documentary notes, valuable listings of early stereoviews of China and biographies of more than forty photographers working in China up to 1860. It also introduces important new detail on the life of Felix Beato.
ISBN: 978-0-9563012-0-8
8vo (260 x 185 mm), pp. 308, with over 200 illustrations; blue cloth, pictorial dust-jacket. £65
Designed as a practical reference guide to the history of photography in Japan from its beginnings until 1912, this presents the results of
important new research and a mass of data gathered from long-forgotten and largely inaccessible nineteenth-century sources.
ISBN-10: 0 9550852 4 1
8vo, pp. iii, [1], 177, with 40 pages of colour illustrations; clear plastic binding. £45
'Tianshu: Passages in the Making of a Book' examines Tianshu with a focus on the bibliographic and technical details of the work and
contains new essays by Xu Bing (published both in Mandarin and in translation); John Cayley (Brown University); Professor Lydia Liu
(Columbia University); and Professor Haun Saussy (Yale University). It also includes an essay from 1994 on Xu Bing's 'nonsense writing'
by Professor Wu Hung (University of Chicago); a detailed bibliographic description of the Tianshu; and a thorough exhibition history.
Illustrated with 40 pages of colour reproductions of Tianshu, this book is the most comprehensive study of Tianshu to date.The Chinese contemporary artist Xu Bing was awarded the MacArthur Foundation 'genius award' in 1999, and the Artes Mundi Prize in 2004. He is currently Vice-President of CAFA in Beijing and has studios in Beijing and New York. First exhibited in an unfinished state in 1989 as part of China/Avant Garde at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing, Tianshu encapsulates Xu Bing's meticulous attention to detail, masterly word play, craftsmanship, and ability to challenge both Eastern and Western audiences.
4to (250 x 190 mm), pp. 112, with black and white illustrations; grey cloth. £35
A revised and illustrated edition of our 1984 catalogue of early books on cabinets of curiosities and collecting, written by Paul Grinke,
who has added a new preface and a selective bibliography of books on the subject published since 1970.
ISBN-10: 0 9550852 0 9.
Folio (300 x 210 mm), pp. 722; blue cloth; dust-jacket. £110
A historical chronology of all Antarctic regions compiled during 25 years at the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge,
by its former Archivist. This book lists the voyages to the far southern parts of the Earth, in particular to Antarctica, from those
directly engaged in exploration and research, to sealers and whalers exploiting its resources, to those accidental discoveries made by
early merchants blown off course. The record begins in 700 BC and continues to the present. Detailed entries for expeditions and related
historical events provide a thorough and useful guide to the history of the Antarctic and its surrounding territories. A comprehensive
introduction describes its evolution and structure. Maps and plates are included to show the development of knowledge of the far south,
the locations of places mentioned in the text, and events of several selected expeditions.
ISBN 978-0-9550852-8-4
8vo (250 x 145 mm), pp. 68, [4]; blue cloth. £60
Printing in full for the first time five letters from the poet and classical scholar A. E. Housman to A. W. Pollard, Keeper of Printed
Books at the British Museum, this explores a friendship that was both intimate and formal. Edited by H. R. Woudhuysen, this edition
is limited to 350 numbered copies, letterpress printed, with a tipped-in facsimile of Housman’s last letter to Pollard.
ISBN-10: 0 9519182 7 3.
4to (285 x 250 mm), pp. 308, with over 500 illustrations, including 85 full-page tritones; dark brown cloth, pictorial dust-jacket. £60
Profusely illustrated, this is the most comprehensive survey to date of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century photography of the Middle East
and North Africa. Using Orientalist painting as a counterpoint, it primarily relates the extraordinarily rich visual documentation of the peoples
and cultures of the ‘Orient’. Many of the photographs reproduced here have never been published before. Biographies of more than 90 photographers
are given, with details of their various identifying marks, allowing now the correct attribution of works that have hitherto been anonymous
or misattributed.
ISBN: 978-0-9550852-5-3.
210 x 150 mm, pp. [iv], 116, with 18 full-page illustrations; pictorial card wrappers. £20
In this guide various approaches to Hakluyt's books are suggested under a number of interrelated headings - his patronage and
connections; Italian and French influences; his use of illustration and his presentation of texts; his intentions; and his impact
and readership. It is hoped that it will aid a broad appreciation of Hakluyt's work and the nature of his achievement, notably
that his part in the publication of over twenty-five travel books marks a contribution to travel literature far beyond the Principal
navigations . . . and discoveries of the English nation for which he is chiefly famous. Extensive notes are provided to indicate
further primary and secondary references and, finally, there is a bibliography of the books by or otherwise associated with Hakluyt
published between 1580 and 1625.The author, Anthony Payne, was formerly a director of Bernard Quaritch Ltd, specialising in travel books. He has previously published Richard Hakluyt and His Books (1997), which includes a census (compiled with P. A. Neville-Sington) of surviving copies of Hakluyt's Divers Voyages and Principal Navigations, and has contributed to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, the Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History, and other reference works. ISBN: 978-0-9550852-7-7.
Small folio (350 x 255 mm), pp. li, [3], 33, with 10 coloured illustrations and a reproduction of the original Columbus Letter; title printed in red and black; blue cloth, pictorial dust-jacket. £60
Republished here in an edition of 500 copies is the first authoritative study of the unique Spanish Columbus Letter which Bernard Quaritch
sold to the Lenox Library in 1892. Besides Felipe Fernández-Armesto’s extensive Introduction, this edition includes an essay by Martin Davies
on the printing of the original Columbus Letter at Barcelona in 1493 and, drawing on material surviving in the Quaritch Archive, the story of
how Quaritch marketed it in America.
ISBN-10: 0 9550852 2 5.
8vo (215 x 140 mm), pp. xii, 209, with 12 full-page illustrations (one folding); title printed in red and black; blue cloth, pictorial dust-jacket. £58
Pocahontas - meaning 'Little Wanton' or playful one - is famous for something she may or may not have done four hundred years ago:
rescue the English colonist John Smith from execution by her father, Powhatan, the Indian paramount chief of the Virginia area.
Pocahontas, Little Wanton investigates the legendary rescue and separates the known facts of her life and death in England from
the myths about her. The book then follows the posthumous history of her story, as it is told and retold over the centuries by
historians, dramatists, poets, novelists and film-makers who formed her into an American national icon, repeatedly rescuing the
colonial Englishman from the indigenous Indian. Pocahontas, Little Wanton is the first book to combine an account of her brief
life with the history of her long, ambiguous afterlife, as an American Indian heroine.
Neil Rennie is a Reader in English at University College London. He has written Far-fetched facts: the literature of travel and the idea of the South Seas (1995) and edited R. L. Stevenson's In the South Seas. He is currently working on a history of real and imaginary pirates. ISBN-13: 978-0-9550852-6-0
8vo (220 x 140 mm), pp. xiii, 90, with 21 illustrations (two coloured); title printed in red and black; blue cloth, dust-jacket. £60
Now retired as curator of rare books at Harvard, Stoddard’s interest in the great French bookseller-bibliographer, Jacques-Charles
Brunet (1780-1867), goes back to his undergraduate days. A few years later, he writes, ‘I began to collect Brunet for myself and to
describe copies of his books when I traveled. I learned a lot that I wanted to share, so I made a bibliographical catalogue . . . ’.
ISBN-13: 978 0 9550852 3 9.
For further information about Quaritch publishing please contact Elisabeth Grass.
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AUVERMANN, Detlev, and Anthony PAYNE. The Society of Jesus 1548-1773 . . . Introduction by Alastair Hamilton. [London], Quaritch, 2006.
BENNET, Terry. History of Photography in China 1842-1860. [London], Quaritch, 2009
BENNETT, Terry. Old Japanese photographs. Collectors’ data guide. [London], Quaritch, 2006.
CAYLEY, John, XU BING and others (Katherine SPEARS, ed.). Tianshu: Passages in the Making of a Book. [London], Bernard Quaritch Ltd, 2009.
GRINKE, Paul. From Wunderkammer to Museum. [London], Quaritch, 2006.
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], Quaritch, 2009.
[HOUSMAN, A. E., and A. W. POLLARD.] A.E.H. A.W.P.: a Classical Friendship. [London], The Foundling Press & Bernard Quaritch, 2006.
JACOBSON, Ken. Odalisques & Arabesques: Orientalist Photography 1839-1925. [London], Quaritch, 2007.
PAYNE, Anthony. Richard Hakluyt: A Guide to His Books and to those Associated with Him, 1580-1625. [London], Quaritch, 2008.
QUARITCH, Bernard, and Michael KERNEY. The Spanish Letter of Columbus . . . A facsimile of the original edition published by Bernard
Quaritch in 1891. With an Introduction by Felipe Fernández-Armesto. [London], Quaritch, 2006.
RENNIE, Neil. Pocahontas, Little Wanton: myth, life and afterlife. [London], Quaritch, 2007.
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.