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. RHOADS, James Evans.

    Autograph letter signed (‘James E. Rhoads’)...

    Philadelphia, 22 July 1869.

    A letter from the first president of Bryn...

    £100

  2. RICCI, Giovanni, and Ercolano PORTA.

    Storia della missione francescana e del...

    Bologna, Stabilimenti tipografici riuniti,...

    First and only edition of this history...

    £750

  3. [RICHARDSON, Jonathan.]

    The general Address (in two Parts) of the...

    London, Printed by W. Nicol, late Bulmer...

    Rare first edition of a revised version...

    £1600

  4. RICH, Jeremiah.

    The Whole Book of Psalms in Meter. According...

    London, ‘Printed and are sold by Samuel...

    First edition, the issue with Samuel Botley...

    £4250

  5. RIDOLFI, Luca Antonio. 

    Aretefila, dialogo, nel quale da una parte...

    Lyons, Guillaume Rouillé, 1562. 

    The third edition (first 1557) of a remarkable...

    £2800

  6. [‘ROBERTI, Antonius’, pseud.]; George PERKINS, editor.

    Clavis Homerica, reserans significationes,...

    London, E. Griffin for Godfrey Emerson, 1638.

    First London edition, ‘with the Catholic...

    £600

  7. ROMANA, Provost.

    Nell’aprirsi della nuova chiesa dalla...

    Mondovì, Pietro Francesco and Luiggi...

    Unrecorded provincially printed broadside...

    £275

  8. ROSSI, Ottavio, and Bartolomeo FONTANA, compiler.

    Lettere del Sig. Ottavio Rossi. Raccolte...

    Brescia, Bartolomeo Fontana, 1621.

    First edition of over 150 letters by the...

    £1250

  9. ROTH, Henry.

    Call it Sleep.

    London, Michael Joseph, 1963.

    First UK edition of Roth’s precocious...

    £250

  10. ROTHSCHILD, Boaz Raphael.

    [Sefer oniyah b’lev yam … Chelek rishon]....

    Fürth, Chaim ben Zvi Hirsch, 1766.

    First part of the first and only edition...

    £450

  11. ROUGEMONT, François de; [Sebastião de MAGALHÃES, translator].

    Relacam do estado politico e espiritual...

    Lisbon, Joao da Costa, 1672.

    First edition in any language of the Dutch...

    £2500

  12. [ROUSSEL DE LA TOUR, Claude Pierre GOUJET, and Abbé MINARD, editors.]

    Extraits des assertions dangereuses et...

    Paris, Pierre-Guillaume Simon, 1762.

    First edition of this systematic selection...

    £1500

  13. SABELLICO, Marco Antonio (or Marcantonio) Coccio; Petrus PONTANUS (or Du Pont, De Brugge).

    Sanctissime elegie de intemerata virgine...

    Paris, Jean de Gourmont, [c. 1513].

    One of only two recorded editions, both...

    £1400

  14. SALLUST.

    C. Sallustius Crispus cum veterum Historicorum...

    Leiden, ex officina Elzeviriana, 1634.

    The first small format Elzevir printing...

    £950

  15. SALLUST.

    Caii Sallustii Crispi quae extant.

    London, James Tonson and John Watts, 1713.

    First Maittaire edition. The French-born...

    £300

  16. ‘SANCTA CLARA, Abraham a’, i.e. Johann Ulrich MEGERLE.

    Coraggio e viltà, l’uno nella virtù,...

    Trento, Giovanni Parone, 1717.

    Scarce first and only Italian edition of...

    £2250

  17. [SAVONAROLA, Girolamo.] Ambrogio Caterino POLITI.

    Discorso … contra la dottrina, et le...

    Venice, Giolito, 1548.

    First edition of a condemnation of Savonarola’s...

    £1500

  18. SCHEFFER, Johannes Gerhard. 

    Constantini Opelii de fabrica triremium...

    ‘Eleuteropoli’ [Freistadt?], 1672. 

    First edition of this treatise on the ancient...

    £875

  19. [SCOTT, Walter, Sir.]

    Ivanhoe; A Romance. By “The Author of...

    Edinburgh, [James Ballantyne & Co.] for...

    Stated second edition but in fact a third...

    £375

  20. SENECA the Younger, and SENECA the Rhetorician.

    L. Annaei Senecae philosophi opera omnia;...

    Leiden, [Bonaventure & Abraham] Elzevir,...

    First Elzevir edition of the moral works...

    £500