People
Meis Al-Kaisi
Meis read Arabic Studies at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden and has an MA in
Islamic Philosophy from the same university. Her Ph.D., obtained at the School of
Oriental and African Studies (SOAS, University of London), was in the sphere of Arabic
Philology and Islamic Studies and concerned the study and editing of a classical Arabic
Sufi text of the 10th century AD. Meis taught Arabic at SOAS for two years while pursuing
her research and subsequently worked for the military attachés of Qatar and Oman as an
academic advisor for their military students in the UK. She joined Quaritch in 2007 to
specialize in Arabic manuscripts.
 Detlev
Auvermann
From a family of antiquarian booksellers, Detlev joined his father’s
business in Germany in 1984 after finishing his formal education.
He worked there for two and a half years before spending several
months with a bookseller in Madrid. In 1987, after a year working
for a well-known bookseller in Nuremberg, Detlev moved to London
to join Quaritch and is now in charge of our Science books. He
has been a director since 1995. Besides regular science catalogues
he has issued several thematic catalogues, including The Art
of Memory (with an introduction by Umberto Eco), Emblem
and Allegory and Food, Drink, Health.
 Simon
Beattie
Simon read for a BA in German and Russian, followed by an MA in
Lexicography, at the University of Exeter, and was a Choral Scholar
at the Cathedral there. After a brief spell working at OUP on the
third edition of the Oxford Russian Dictionary (it is thanks to
Simon that the Russian for ‘bouncy castle’ was included),
he became a bookseller with Quaritch in 1998. Simon is especially
interested in English books printed abroad, Eastern European literature,
and early printed music. He was responsible for our major catalogue
of books relating to financial speculation, Risk.
 Emma
Brown
Emma read Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Edinburgh.
She joined Quaritch in 1997 and has run our Auction Commissions
since 2000. She also assists Nicholas Poole-Wilson in the field
of early Continental books.
 Wendy
Cruise
Wendy joined Quaritch in 1980 after reading French and German at
Westfield College, University of London. She specializes in eighteenth-,
nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature in Continental European
languages, focusing particularly on French, German, Italian, Russian,
Spanish and South American literature. She travels regularly in
Europe and converses in several languages. Wendy has been a director
of Quaritch since 1993.
 Alex
Day
Alex read History of Art at the Courtauld Institute and has an
MPhil in Medieval History from the University of Cambridge. He
joined Quaritch in 2003 to specialize in books on the Middle East
and has subsequently diversified into general travel books.
 Ted
Hofmann
Ted, our senior specialist in English books, was educated at Cornell
University, Berkeley and King’s College, London, before working
for the History of Parliament (early Tudor section) and, in 1967,
founding Hofmann & Freeman antiquarian booksellers. He was
a part-time consultant on the valuation of archives for Christie’s
before becoming a director of Quaritch in 1988. He is a member
of the Council of Management of the Friends of the Bodleian Library
and of the editorial board of The Book Collector. Ted has also
been a member of the editorial board of The index of English
literary manuscripts and has published (with Joan Winterkorn, Frances Harris,
and Hilton Kelliher) John Evelyn in the British Library (1995).
 Richard
Linenthal
Educated at Amherst College, Richard moved to London and joined
Quaritch in 1978. He has been a director since 1984, works principally
with medieval manuscripts and early printed books, and compiled
the series of Quaritch catalogues Bookhands of the Middle Ages
(1984–2004). He is a member of the council of the Bibliographical
Society, and has been its Hon. Treasurer since 1994. He is also
a member of the Grolier Club and of the Association Internationale
de Bibliophilie.
 Nicholas
Poole-Wilson
Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, Nicholas joined Quaritch
in 1967 and has been a director since 1973. He has for many years
supervised Quaritch’s major speciality in Continental books
and manuscripts, dealing in medieval manuscripts, incunabula and
early printed books in a variety of subjects and European languages.
 Donovan
Rees
Donovan read English Literature at St Hugh’s College, Oxford,
and has an MA from the Courtauld Institute. He joined Quaritch
in 2004, having worked in publishing and the retail book trade,
and has a special interest in English books.
 Barbara
Scalvini
Barbara read Italian and Latin literature at the University of Pavia
and graduated in 1995 with a thesis in eighteenth-century historiography.
She published her critical edition of Alessandro Verri’s Saggio
sulla Storia d’Italia in 2000. Barbara’s PhD research
into the evolution of national histories in the early modern period
complemented a growing interest in antiquarian books which she developed
overseeing the assessment of eighteenth-century printed materials
in the library of the Collegio Ghislieri, Pavia. After an internship
at Christie’s, Barbara moved to Simon Finch Rare Books, where
she dealt in a broad range of subjects besides her speciality in
Continental books from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. She
joined Quaritch in 2005.
 Catherine
Scheybeler
Catherine has a degree in Spanish and History from the University
of Exeter and has a special interest in maritime history. She joined
Quaritch in 2005 and has been compiling a catalogue of our reference
library as well as working with our specialists in travel and other
fields.
 Ian
Smith
Ian graduated from the University of Exeter in 1981 with a degree
in French and German. Having spent a year in France and a couple
of years as an assistant accountant, Ian joined Quaritch in 1984,
working in various fields before assuming management of our Human
Sciences books in 1988, specializing in economics, philosophy,
and the social sciences/history of ideas. A director since 1991,
he continues to enjoy working with libraries and private collectors
in Europe, America and the Far East.
 Katherine
Spears
Katherine read history at the University of Cambridge. She has undertaken
archival research in India and has written an MPhil on the Politics of Higher
Education in India 1880-1920. Katherine joined Quaritch in 2005 and works
with the Human Sciences and Photography departments.
 Lindsey
Stewart
Lindsey is our consultant specialist in photographs. After graduating
from the University of Edinburgh, she studied Documentary Photography
at Newport College of Art in Wales and worked at Stills Gallery, one
of the first galleries in Britain to include historic photography
as one of its specialities. From 1981 until 2002 Lindsey was responsible
for regular photograph auctions at Christie’s in London. She
has recently been researching the work of the French artist and photographer,
Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey, about whom she has written for
the book, Antiquity & Photography, which accompanies
the exhibition of the same name opening at the J. Paul Getty Museum
in 2006.
 Bogislav
Winner
Bogislav read history at King’s College, London, and has
worked in the antiquarian book trade since 1982, first in Italy
and Germany and then for seven years at Maggs Bros. in London.
He joined Quaritch in 1994 and is now in charge of our books on
Art and Architecture, specialising also in the history of archaeology.
Joan
Winterkorn
Joan has degrees from Cornell University (BA) and the State University
of New York at Albany (MLS Hons). After working as an archivist
in Albany and London she was Assistant Rare Book and Manuscript
Librarian at Cornell University. Joan has been with Quaritch since
1979; she is a director and is in charge of our valuation and related
work on archives and manuscript collections. She is on the editorial
board of The Book Collector, the Council of the Friends of Cambridge
University Library, the Record Preservation Section of the British
Records Association and is a member of the Grolier Club. Joan is
a co-author of John Evelyn in the British Library (1995).
Robert Jones
Robert is our consultant in books and manuscripts relating to the Arab and Islamic world,
a specialist field which he established at Quaritch in 1984, and he was a director from 1991
until 2005. Robert began his love of the orient with undergraduate studies at the universities
of Durham and Isfahan, followed by postgraduate degrees at London University’s Warburg Institute
and School of Oriental and African Studies. Robert’s Ph.D. thesis was on Learning Arabic in
Renaissance Europe (1505-1624) and he has published a number of scholarly articles on related
themes. Catalogues produced by Robert at Quaritch have included The Arabs in Spain and The Qur’an
and Calligraphy.
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