Farewell, adieu, auf Wiedersehen, goodbye! After 15 years on Twitter this account will no longer be active, but we still are: we hope to see you in the shop, at book fairs, or to stay in touch on other platforms: . 📷 Bernard Quaritch, 15 October 1899

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#BYOB – this Liège-based printer-cum-wine merchant offers a refund of 3 sous to anyone who buys his ‘excellent’ vin de Languedoc & returns the bottle afterwards 🍷

From our December New Acquisitions list: 📷 Background image: Baraffael Family Hanukkah Lamp. Gaspare Vanneschi, Italian, 1773–75 (via @metmuseum).

Happy Hanukkah! This copy of Buxtorf's Hebrew grammar (London, 1653) features a student's transliteration of Psalms 18:32-33 and 18:42. The same psalm includes the verse 'For You light my lamp; the Lord my God illumines my darkness' – particularly apt for the Festival of Lights!

Happy Christmas from all of us at Q!

Go big or go home – coming in at approximately 40kg (88 lbs), this nineteenth-century Spanish Missal is so heavy that the binding has been fitted with wheels for ease of movement!

Day 23 of our #QuaritchAdventCalendar, from our catalogue Bindings: Bizarre & Beautiful:

POV: you need to be the most fashionable reader in the room 💅👜. This late 18thc Bible features folding brass handles, turning the book from devotional object to chic accessory, allowing it to be flaunted in public – namely in church.

🐑 Day 22 of our #QuaritchAdventCalendar is a rare prayerbook in an unusual binding incorporating embroidered panels. ❤️‍🔥 The front panel, pictured here, features a Sacred Heart in the centre and a Paschal Lamb beneath.

Happy #WinterSolstice! Mistletoe (or 'Misseltoe'/'Misteltoe') in Gerard's Herball or generall Historie of Plantes (1633)

Party on the outside, business within: these 1648 Psalms and Bible are housed in a vibrant binding of gilt green vellum with morocco onlays and unusual gilt and gauffered edges painted with flowers, birds, and animals // #QuaritchAdventCalendar day 21

Particularly implausible is his penchant for linking the decoration of his panels to the contents of the bindings, here with the book’s title and its author’s arms shown on the rear board!

Despite living in Siena, Joni had learned of the tavolette from a twelve-page offprint and never visited the Archivio di Stato to see the works he was forging, thus developing an idiosyncratic style with several inaccuracies and anachronisms.

His works were mostly sold to – and often commissioned by – unscrupulous Italian antiques dealers, who sold them on with more or less success as originals.