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. [CANONS REGULAR OF THE LATERAN.]

    Regula et constitutiones Canonicorum Regularium...

    Rome, apud Paulum Bladum, 1592. 

    The most complete edition, rare, of the...

    £18500

  2. [CAPUCHINS.]

    Diploma conferring ‘privilegium maximum’.

    ‘Bojonii’, 22 October 1779.

    An attractive diploma issued by Erhard...

    £450

  3. CARACCIOLO, Roberto.

    Sermones de laudibus sanctoru[m] fratris...

    [Reutlingen, Michael Greyff, not after 1492.]

    Rare edition of this collection of seventy...

    £7000

  4. CARLI, Paolo Francesco da Montecarlo.

    La Svinatura di Barbigi Mezzabarba (Paol...

    Campobasso, Stab. Tip. Del Progresso, 1878.

    Rare edition of a satire by poet and abbot...

    £150

  5. CARTARI, Vincenzo.

    Le imagini con la spositione de i dei de...

    Venice, Francesco Marcolini, 1556.

    First edition of Cartari’s influential...

    £800

  6. [CARTHUSIANS. GUIGO DE CASTRO, compiler.]

    Repertorium statutoru[m] ordinis cartusiensis...

    Basel, Johann Amerbach, 1510.

    First printed edition of the Statutes of...

    £7500

  7. CASAL, Gaspar do.

    Axiomata christiana ex divinis scripturis...

    Coimbra, João da Barreira and João Alvares,...

    First edition of Gaspar do Casal’s major...

    £2500

  8. CATHERINE of Siena.

    Dialogo della serafica vergine, et sposa...

    Venice, Giacomo Cornetti, 1589.

    An uncommon edition of Saint Catherine...

    £550

  9. CATTANI DA DIACCETO, Francesco. 

    Homelie … sopra la sequenza del corpo...

    Florence, Lorenzo Ducale, 1559.

    Uncommon first edition of a collection...

    £550

  10. CAVALCANTI, Bartolomeo. 

    La retorica … divisa in sette libri,...

    Venice, Gabriel Giolitto, 1559. 

    Second edition, published in the same year...

    £2250

  11. CHALMERS, David.

    Histoire abbregee de tous les roys de France,...

    Paris, Jean Fevrier, 1579.

    First edition of Chalmer’s historical...

    £950

  12. [CHAMPIER, Symphorien.]

    La vie & les gestes du preux chevalier...

    Lyons, Olivier Arnoullet, [(colophon:)...

    A rare edition of Champier’s account...

    £9500

  13. CHAMPIER, [Symphorien].

    Les gestes ensembles la vie du preulx chevalier...

    Lyons, Gilbert Devilliers, [(colophon:)...

    Rare first edition of this richly illustrated...

    £18000

  14. [CHAMPIER, Symphorien.]

    La vie & les gestes du preux Chevalier...

    [(Colophon:) Poitiers, Jacques Bouchet...

    An otherwise unrecorded late sixteenth-century...

    £8750

  15. [CHARITY.]

    Costituzioni della Congregazione della...

    Parma, Stamperia Reale, [1778].

    Uncommon set of constitutions for the Congregazione...

    £300

  16. [CHARLES II.]

    RIVET, Jean. ‘Le favory du Ciel ou Meditation...

    [Caussade en Quercy, 1664.]

    A fascinating manuscript meditation on...

    £1850

  17. [CHARTONNET, Antoine-François.] 

    Considerations sur les devoirs des personnes...

    Paris, chez Edme Couterot, 1695. 

    Rare first edition of this religious manual...

    £275

  18. 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

  19. 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

  20. [CHINA.]

    Business report written to a Mr Luo by...

    [China], 咸豐壬子年 [1852].

    An interesting mid-nineteenth-century report...

    £750