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16/09/2022
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Bernard Quaritch
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Catalogue 1450
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highlights from our anniversary catalogue, from the birth of printing to modern archives, from a Gutenberg leaf and nine other incunables, to early photography, spectacular botanical illustrations, and a tantalising glimpse at the Bloomsbury set. We will be showing books from the libraries of Adam Smith, James Boswell, Pietro da Montagnana, William Stirling-Maxwell, Pierre Varignon, Daniel Dumonstier, and George Etherege; early English astronomical works, an annotated Tycho Brahe, and the Dialogo and Discorsi of Galileo. On display will be three works printed in Chinese, one in Syriac, a Qur'an leaf from the fourteenth century, and a Jamaican newspaper; and manuscripts on topics as diverse as poisoning, the balance of trade, the Parisian art world of the 1950s, the Elizabethan military, and the manufacture of paint colours.
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