Pickering & Chatto

03/03/2022

Have you seen out latest catalogues?

Sadly, after being unable to attend the 2022 Oakland Bookfair for yet another year, we have taken to exhibiting virtually (most recently at the ABA Virtual Bookfair), with the hope of reurning to our usual stall very soon. In the meantime, we continue to release our catalogues, which are accessible via the Pickering & Chatto website, or please get in contact to be added to our mailing list.

03/03/2022

Did you know we operate out of one of the oldest churches in London?

St Clements is perhaps best known for its famous nursery rhyme; “Oranges and lemons/ Say the bells of St Clements”. Being situated next to the Thames, the Church often saw citrus fruits being carried up and down the market streets, as Eastcheap became the most predominant street in Medieval London.

Prior to this, it is thought the Church had Roman origins, as three-feet thick walls and tessellated tiles are just a few of the things found on St Clements Lane.

In fact, St Clements Church was destroyed, in the most part, by the Great Fire of London in 1666. Consequently, Sir Christopher Wren designed and rebuilt the historic grounds, with an additional east extension coming years later.

Most surprisingly, it is said that in July 1645 the poet John Milton was reconciled with his estranged wife Mary Powell, in St Clement's churchyard where Mary was lodging. Milton's description in Paradise Lost of the reconciliation of Adam and Eve draws, apparently, on the real life reconciliation between Milton and his wife.

It seems the perfect grounds for our historic pieces!

16/07/2013

Our latest list of recent acquisitions is now on our website, and contains a variety of material ranging from the imprisonment of a Jansenist printer in 18th century Rome to a helpfully colour-coded world map for missionaries, as well as a guide for French police, a souvenir of the July Revolution, the catalogue of a 19th century banker's library, and reassurance that comets won't harm us. It can be found at

http://www.pickering-chatto.com/PC/Catalogues_and_Lists_files/227.pdf

21/05/2013

Pickering & Chatto's latest bulletin features 33 items including, among other things, the rules of a new card game, the run up to the suppression of the Jesuits in France, an album of French assignats, the process of lithography illustrated with ptarmigans, an unrecordered Anglo-Indian periodical, Syrian dialects, and the 19th century demise of a London pleasure garden through the eyes of its master of ceremonies. It is now on our website at

http://www.pickering-chatto.com/PC/Catalogues_and_Lists_files/Bull37.pdf

Happy reading.

02/05/2013

A short list of 60 books, pamphlets, reports, and dissertations on medical matters is now on our website. Among the contents: works on cholera, tuberculosis, yellow fever, and vaccination; La Mettrie on the charlatanism of Parisian doctors; advice on where not to bury bodies; medical education in 1790s France and 1870s Devon; and how to revive the dead with tongue-stroking.

It can be found at

http://pickering-chatto.com/PC/Catalogues_and_Lists_files/MED13.pdf

Please do get in touch if you have any queries.

16/04/2013

05/04/2013

We are packing our last boxes to send to next week's New York Antiquarian Book Fair, which runs from Thursday 11th to Sunday 14th April, at the Armory at Park Avenue and 66th St. A list of everything we, and our sister company Marlborough Rare Books, are bringing is on our website at

http://pickering-chatto.com/PC/Bookfairs_and_Events_files/New%20York%202013%20Book%20Fair%20List.pdf

We can be found at booth B17, and we still have a few tickets left; do get in touch if you would like one. We look forward to seeing you there.

06/03/2013

Our latest list of 50 recent acquisitions is now online, containing Hume's copy of Lucretius, an early Rousseau manuscript, and works on Venetian academies, cholera, Florentine food laws, feminine beauty in the middle east, religious common sense, and singers who cause migraines. It can be found at

http://pickering-chatto.com/PC/Catalogues_and_Lists_files/List226.pdf

15/01/2013

It's almost time for our first book fair of the year. We shall be at the 52nd Stuttgarter Antiquariatsmesse, at the Württembergischer Kunstverein in Stuttgart from Friday 25th - Sunday 27th January, where we can be found at booth 34. A list of some of the books we shall be taking can be found at

http://pickering-chatto.com/PC/Bookfairs_and_Events_files/Stuttgartlistweb.pdf

and full details of the fair are at http://www.stuttgarter-antiquariatsmesse.de/

We hope to see you there.

06/11/2012

Our latest catalogue, of English-language books, manuscripts, and ephemera from four centuries, can now be found on our website.

01/11/2012

We shall be exhibiting at the Chelsea Antiquarian Book Fair this weekend. Come and find us at Chelsea Old Town Hall on the King's Road on Friday and Saturday; details of the fair, including information on how to find free tickets, are at http://www.chelseabookfair.com/

We look forward to seeing you there.

The 22nd Chelsea Book Fair will be held at the Old Town Hall in the King’s Road, London, on 2-3 November 2012. All right, twenty-two years is not as long as you need for a Diamond Jubilee, and we can’t rival the Olympics, at 116 years old (or 2788, depending on where you start from); but some of the...

25/09/2012

Our latest catalogue, containing some 100 books from continental Europe, is now up on our website. Among other things, we have advice on what to do when your wife starts reading novels, the first laws of a new republic, the legitimacy of polygamy (for some), fundraising for girl's schools in Switzerland, music therapy, the protection of Venice, and Voltaire's defence of inoculation. Have a read at

http://www.pickering-chatto.com/PC/Catalogues_and_Lists_files/225Web.pdf