Continental

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Our Continental department specialises in incunabula, Greek and Latin classics, early vernacular imprints, and notable texts from the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the early modern era, with a specific section devoted to medieval manuscripts, fragments, and illuminations.

We regularly issue lists and catalogues, offering a wide variety of literary, historical, and philosophical books printed in Italy, France, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, the Low Countries, Eastern Europe, and Russia.  Woodcuts, early engravings, notable bindings, notable marginalia, rare manuscript or printed survivals, and books with a remarkable provenance are among our keenest interests and feature regularly in our stock.

 
  1. ABBEVILLE, Claude d’.

    Histoire de la mission des peres Capucins...

    Paris, François Huby, 1614.

    Second edition, enlarged and revised...

    £30000

  2. ACETI DE’ PORTI, Serafino. 

    Novo paradiso di delitie spirituali, nel...

    Bologna, Giovanni Rossi, 1563. 

    Rare first edition of this devotional work...

    £850

  3. AESOP, et al. [George STEWART, editor].

    Selectiores Aesopi Phrygis fabulae, et...

    Edinburgh, Tho. Ruddiman for George Stewart,...

    First edition thus, scarce, a Scottish...

    £375

  4. ALBERTI, Leon Battista.

    El Momo. La moral e muy graciosa historia...

    Alcalá de Henares, Joan Mey Flandro, 1553.

    First edition in Spanish of Alberti’s...

    £3800

  5. ALBERTUS MAGNUS, [Pseudo-].

    Tractatus de virtutibus … scd’m alios...

    Memmingen, [Albrecht Kunne, c. 1488].

    An early edition of the Paradise...

    £2500

  6. ALCIONIO, Pietro.

    Petri Alcyonii Medices legatus de exsilio.

    [Venice, in the house of Aldus Manutius...

    First edition of Alcionio’s dialogue...

    £5750

  7. [ALMANACK.]

    Calendarium Tyrnaviense ad annum Jesu Chris[ti]...

    [Tyrnau (Trnava), 1731.]

    A remarkable almanack binding of part-printed,...

    £1850

  8. [ALMANACK.]

    London Almanack for the Year of Christ 1820.

    [London,] Printed for the Company of Stationers,...

    An extraordinary binding of silver filigree...

    £2750

  9. [ALMANACK.]

    L’Esprit des chansonniers, extrain [sic?]...

    Paris, Le Fuel, [1826?].

    A very rare enamelled metal binding...

    £2750

  10. [ALMANACK.]

    Les etrennes a la rose, ou le rosier d’amour.

    Paris, Janet, [1804?].

    A charming literary almanack, or ‘rosebush...

    £2500

  11. [ALTAR CARDS.]

    Two altar cards with Latin text and images...

    ‘A Paris, chez I. Baudemont’, second...

    Two seemingly unrecorded hand-coloured...

    £2750

  12. ALTING, Jacob; Heinrich Jakob van BASHUYSEN, editor.

    Compendium fundamentorum punctationis linguae...

    Hanau, Johann Georg Winsheimer ‘in Typographia...

    First and only edition, seemingly the...

    £1250

  13. AMBROSE of Milan, AUGUSTINE, and HIERONYMUS.

    De virginitate opuscula Sanctorum doctorum,...

    Rome, Paolo Manuzio, 1562.

    Four first editions from Paolo Manuzio’s...

    £4000

  14. [AMERICAN EDUCATION.]

    An Oration to Children by Way of Information.

    [New England, c. 1800.]

    An American manuscript of seemingly...

    £1200

  15. ANACREON.

    [Odaria.] Ανακρεοντος τηιου...

    Parma, [Bodoni] ‘in aedibus Palatinis’,...

    Thick paper copy, apparently one of...

    £650

  16. ANGLÉS, José. 

    Flores theologicarum quaestionum, in quartum...

    Rome, Giuseppe de Angelis, 1578. 

    Scarce second edition (first Cagliari,...

    £750

  17. ANTIPHONAL,

    with neumes, containing antiphons, responses...

    Germany, 1st half of 12th century. 

    Two bifolia from a notably early antiphonal. 

    £5000

  18. [ANTIPHONAL.]

    Very large historiated initial ‘H’...

    Italy (Siena), c. 1300.

    A very fine large initial painted in...

    £6750

  19. ANTONIUS de Vercellis. 

    Sermones quadragesimales de XII mirabilibus...

    Venice, Johannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis,...

    A remarkable copy of the first edition...

    £8500

  20. APOLLODORUS; Benedetto EGIO, translator.

    Απολλοδωρου του Αθηναιου...

    [Heidelberg,] ex officina Commeliniana, 1599.

    Second edition (first 1555) of this...

    £875