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. PRESENT FOR THE YOUNG (A).

    London: Printed for The Religious Tract...

    [c. 1827]

    First edition. A finely illustrated anthology...

    £175

  2. [PRIMER.]

    Preces privatae, in studiosorum gratia[m]...

    London, William Seres, 1568.

    Second edition of this rare ‘private’...

    £4250

  3. PRIOR, Matthew.

    Poems on several Occasions.

    London, printed for Jacob Tonson and John...

    First edition, a subscriber’s copy on...

    £5000

  4. PROPERTIUS; Oliffe Legh RICHMOND, editor.

    Sexti Properti quae supersunt opera, edidit...

    Cambridge, University Press, 1928.

    First edition of Richmond’s controversial...

    £275

  5. [PSALMS.]

    Les Pseaumes de David, mis en Vers François,...

    Amsterdam, ‘aux dépens de l’Eglise...

    New edition of the metrical Psalms of the...

    £950

  6. [PSALMS.]

    Psalterium Davidis carmine redditum per...

    Paris, [(colophon:) Guillaume Morel for]...

    Seemingly unrecorded issue of the Psalms...

    £1250

  7. [PSALMS.]

    Les Pseaumes de David, mis en rime Françoise,...

    ‘Se vendent à Charenton, par Antoine...

    Charenton-printed French Psalms in a remarkable...

    £2750

  8. [PSALMS.]

    Psalmi Davidis regis et vatis inclyti,...

    Antwerp, [(colophon:) Jan Verwithagen...

    A collection of verse paraphrases of the...

    £975

  9. [PSALMS.]

    The whole Booke of Psalmes, collected into...

    London, printed by T. C[otes] for the...

    A very attractive pocket psalm book with...

    £2750

  10. [PSALMS; Basil WOODD, editor.]

    The Psalms of David, and other Portions...

    London, Watts & Bridgewaters, Rivingtons,...

    A pocket-sized Psalm- and prayerbook with...

    £2000

  11. [PSALTER.] [BRUNO, Archbishop of Würzburg, editor.]

    Psalterium.

    [Würzburg, Georg Reyser, c. 1488–1489.]

    First edition of the Psalter with the commentary...

    £24000

  12. [PSALTER.] Justinus DECADYUS, editor.

    Ψαλτηριον.

    Venice, Aldus Manutius, [not after 1 October...

    The elegant first Aldine printing of the...

    £45000

  13. PURSEY, Thomas.

    The last General Assembly of the Free Church...

    [Edinburgh, T. Pursey, 1900.]

    A photographic tour-de-force, assembling...

    £2000

  14. [QUARITCH.]

    Guillaume Postel (1510–1581).

    Quaritch, 2006.

    A catalogue of a collection of the works...

    £60

  15. QUINTILIAN, Marcus Fabius, and Pierre GALLAND (ed.).

    M. Fabii Quintiliani … de oratoria institutione...

    Paris, Thomas Richard, 1554 [– 1550-1561].

    A mixed edition of Pierre Galland’s Quintilian,...

    £700

  16. QUINTILIAN, Marcus Fabius, and Jacques-Louis d’ESTREBAY (editor).

    Compendium libri secundi, tertii, et quinti...

    Paris, Thomas Richard, 1558.

    Very rare third edition of this compendium...

    £350

  17. QUINTILIAN, Marcus Fabius.

    Institutiones oratoriae, ac Declamationes,...

    [Paris,] Badius Ascensius for Ascensius...

    Rare reprint of Badius’s successful 1528...

    £1250

  18. [RAMEAUX, François-Alexis.]

    Edictum pro regis Hou-kuanensis adversus...

    [China], [1840–1] 道光卄年.

    A letter sent by the Department of Justice...

    £3500

  19. [RAMEAUX, François-Alexis.]

    Notice of the death of Rameaux issued by...

    [China, 1845.]

    A circular notifying the Christian community...

    £2000

  20. RANK, Otto.

    Der Mythus von der Geburt des Helden. Versuch...

    Leipzig and Vienna, Franz Deuticke, 1909.

    First edition of this psychoanalytical...

    £100