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Alfred Pasternack

@aopmurray

Bookseller (@quaritch) and bookbinder (@wschool). Views my own (except the shameless catalogue retweets). He/him. @aopmurray@zirk.us

 London, Europe
Joined April 2015
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One of the coolest things I have had in my time at Quaritch - an engraved peepshow of an eighteenth-century bindery
Peepshow of six engraved scenes each with a hole in the centre, viewed corner-on in a perspex stand

ALT Peepshow of six engraved scenes each with a hole in the centre, viewed corner-on in a perspex stand

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Bernard Quaritch Ltd@Quaritch10 Jan 2025
Replying to @IES_London
@IES_London very excited about @LauraJCleaver ‘s talk on booksellers as manuscript collectors (especially as far as Bernard Quaritch is concerned, of course)! ies.sas.ac.uk/events/other-p…
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Bernard Quaritch Ltd@Quaritch16 Dec 2024
🎁 Looking for a last-minute gift for the bibliophiles in your life? Browse gift ideas on our website to discover bookish delights from medieval manuscripts to recent publications (and everything in between): quaritch.com/gift-ideas/
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Dr Liam Sims@liamsims26 Nov 2024
A pleasing initial Q inside Euclid’s ‘Elementa geometriæ’ (#Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, 1482) now @theULSpecColl Inc.3.B.3.23c[1459]. It belonged to the nineteenth-century astronomer John Couch Adams.
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Stephen Hopkins@phil_lol_ogist20 Nov 2024
Work-life balance is so hard to achieve. I, for one, am happy for him
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Marsh's Library@MarshsLibrary19 Nov 2024
A taster on RTE culture @RTE_Culture of our current exhibition 'Gutenberg's Cradle', showcasing the oldest printed books in the world #Incunabula #Incunables rte.ie/culture/2024/1119/147…
Hand coloured initial R from 15th century book

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Antiquare.de@VDA_Antiquare18 Nov 2024
Was machen wir eigentlich im November? Wir planen den Januar! Auf der #AntiquariatsmesseStuttgart - DAS Branchentreffen aller Buchliebhaber und Sammler
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A very interesting and convival couple of days back at Stationer's Hall for the Book Trade History Conference. Thank you so much to all our speakers and delegates!
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Bernard Quaritch Ltd@Quaritch9 Nov 2024
We are delighted to be exhibiting at the 46th Boston Antiquarian Book Fair at booth 423! Read our catalogue of 80 highlights of the fair here: bit.ly/3UIW2y7
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Bernard Quaritch Ltd@Quaritch31 Oct 2024
💀 A spooky surprise for Halloween: this nineteenth-century Italian memento mori turn-up book unfolds to reveal a decaying corpse; above, the figures' sumptuous clothing falls away to uncover two pairs of skeletal legs, a scythe, and a spade. 🪦
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Friends, Romans,
Email preview text, reading “Men, Women, Kids, Clearance, thank you for your order”

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Goodies for #translators:
Bernard Quaritch Ltd (@Quaritch) profile pictureBernard Quaritch Ltd@Quaritch1 Oct 2024
Our catalogue for #InternationalTranslationDay on 30 September features translations produced as respite from insanity, works translated at the instance of Hakluyt, Hume, or James I, deliberately unfinished to appease a fellow translator, and much more! bit.ly/Q-Translation2024
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Marsh's Library@MarshsLibrary11 Oct 2024
A quick reminder that today is the last day you can nominate Marsh's for €5000 funding from Movement for Good! Click on the link below to help us care for our collections & building, without spending a cent! culture.movementforgood.com/…
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Simon Beattie@simon_beattie1 Oct 2024
A rather remarkable publisher's binding from 1790.
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The beginning of autumn has called students back to their books. The owner of this 1568 edition of Virgil’s Georgics & Aeneid definitely took his studies seriously with notes in the margins & on extra blank leaves. But sometimes you need to let your artistic talent take the lead!
Doodle of a little owl

ALT Doodle of a little owl

Verso page with notes next to an added blank leaf, filled with neat handwritten notes

ALT Verso page with notes next to an added blank leaf, filled with neat handwritten notes

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Italian rocket: has flowers "of a naughty savor" and seeds "in taste like Rocket seed"
Gerarde's Herball, 1633, p. 277, with two botanical woodcuts and text reading "Of Italian Rocket ... Italian Rocket hath long leaves cut into many parts or divisions like those of the Ash tree, resembling Ruellius his Bucks-horne: among which rise up stalks weake and tender, but thicke and grosse, two foot high, garnished with many small yellowish floures like the middle part of Tansie floures, of a naughty savor or smell. The feed is small like sand or dust, in taste like Rocket seed, whereof in truth wee suspect it to be a kinde. The root is long and wooddy."

ALT Gerarde's Herball, 1633, p. 277, with two botanical woodcuts and text reading "Of Italian Rocket ... Italian Rocket hath long leaves cut into many parts or divisions like those of the Ash tree, resembling Ruellius his Bucks-horne: among which rise up stalks weake and tender, but thicke and grosse, two foot high, garnished with many small yellowish floures like the middle part of Tansie floures, of a naughty savor or smell. The feed is small like sand or dust, in taste like Rocket seed, whereof in truth wee suspect it to be a kinde. The root is long and wooddy."

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Guildhall Library@GuildhallLib16 Sep 2024
We will be open again for @openhouselondon on Saturday 21st September! Come and see some of our beautiful medieval books from 13th-15th century & discover the fascinating history of this 600-year old library. No booking needed. @cityoflondon
Poster advertising Open Day 2024 at Guildhall Library. Includes the logos of Open House and Guildhall Library and 3 collaged details from rare books/materials, including an illuminated letter in gold leaf from The Chronicles of France, dated late 14th/early 15th century.

ALT Poster advertising Open Day 2024 at Guildhall Library. Includes the logos of Open House and Guildhall Library and 3 collaged details from rare books/materials, including an illuminated letter in gold leaf from The Chronicles of France, dated late 14th/early 15th century.

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Bodleian Libraries@bodleianlibs14 Sep 2024
This early printed book is full of colourful woodcut engravings of historical and mythological women. 'De Claris Mulieribus’ is notable as the first collection devoted exclusively to biographies of women in post-ancient Western literature. 106 women are featured. MS Douce 287
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Joseph Hone@JosephHone_12 Sep 2024
With Graham Pollard's copy of Oceana! Nice.
Bernard Quaritch Ltd (@Quaritch) profile pictureBernard Quaritch Ltd@Quaritch11 Sep 2024
Tomorrow we'll be making our annual pilgrimage north for the 2024 York National Book Fair, we are pleased to present a curated list of 30 items to mark the occasion. We hope you enjoy reading it, and we look forward to seeing many of you at Stand 30! bit.ly/Q-York2024
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