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.
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CASAL, Gaspar do.
Axiomata christiana ex divinis scripturis...
Coimbra, João da Barreira and João Alvares,...
First edition of Gaspar do Casal’s major...
£2500
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CATHERINE of Siena.
Dialogo della serafica vergine, et sposa...
Venice, Giacomo Cornetti, 1589.
An uncommon edition of Saint Catherine...
£550
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CATTANI DA DIACCETO, Francesco.
Homelie … sopra la sequenza del corpo...
Florence, Lorenzo Ducale, 1559.
Uncommon first edition of a collection...
£550
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CAVALCANTI, Bartolomeo.
La retorica … divisa in sette libri,...
Venice, Gabriel Giolitto, 1559.
Second edition, published in the same year...
£2250
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CHALMERS, David.
Histoire abbregee de tous les roys de France,...
Paris, Jean Fevrier, 1579.
First edition of Chalmer’s historical...
£950
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[CHAMPIER, Symphorien.]
La vie & les gestes du preux chevalier...
Lyons, Olivier Arnoullet, [(colophon:)...
A rare edition of Champier’s account...
£9500
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[CHARITY.]
Costituzioni della Congregazione della...
Parma, Stamperia Reale, [1778].
Uncommon set of constitutions for the Congregazione...
£300
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[CHARLES II.]
RIVET, Jean. ‘Le favory du Ciel ou Meditation...
[Caussade en Quercy, 1664.]
A fascinating manuscript meditation on...
£1850
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[CHARTONNET, Antoine-François.]
Considerations sur les devoirs des personnes...
Paris, chez Edme Couterot, 1695.
Rare first edition of this religious manual...
£275
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CHEKE, John, Sir, and Stephen [GARDINER], Bishop of Winchester.
De pronuntiatione graecae potissimum linguae...
Basel, Nikolaus Episcopius the younger, 1555.
First edition of this collection of letters...
£950
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CHEVALIER, André-Joseph, professor; A.J. BERENTS, compiler.
‘Tractatus De Fide, Spe et Charitate...
[Douai, 9 March–4 August] 1787.
A manuscript treatise concerning the three...
£375
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[CHINA.]
Business report written to a Mr Luo by...
[China], 咸豐壬子年 [1852].
An interesting mid-nineteenth-century report...
£750
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[CHOISY, François Timoléon, Abbé de.]
Journal ou suite de voyage de Siam. En...
Amsterdam, Pierre Mortier, 1687.
Amsterdam edition, issued the same year...
£300
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CHRYSOSTOM, John.
[Opera: Homeliae.] Que in secundo Ioannis...
Venice, Stagnino & de Gregoriis, 1503.
First edition of Chrysostom’s Opera...
£2800
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CHRYSOSTOM, John.
[Opera] Que in secondo volumine continentur...
[Venice, Bernardino Stagnino and Gregorio...
The second volume of the first collected...
£2500
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[CHURCH OF ENGLAND.]
The New Weeks Preparation for a worthy...
London, printed from the edition of the...
An attractive copy of two later editions...
£250
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CICERO, Marcus Tullius.
Marcus Tullius Ciceroes three Bookes of...
[London, Richard Tottel,] 1583.
Sixth edition of Grimald’s Cicero, first...
£3200
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CICERO, Marcus Tullius.
Orationum pars I. Cum correctionibus P. Manutii,...
Venice, ‘ex bibliotheca Aldina’, 1570.
An unusual example of a white calf German...
£1850
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CICERO, Marcus Tullius.
M. T. Ciceronis orationes Philippicae...
Paris, Jean Loys, 1544.
Extremely rare edition of Cicero’s Philippics...
£2250
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CICERO, Marcus Tullius.
De philosophia tomus primus.
Lyon, Sébastien Gryphe, 1546.
A small format Lyon edition of Cicero,...
£300