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. FLORUS, Lucius. 

    Lucii Flori rerum ab urbe condita liber...

    [Venice, in aedibus Aldi et Andreae Soceri,...

    Florus’s epitome of Roman history, extracted...

    £750

  2. FORD, Simon.

    The Restoring of fallen Brethren: containing...

    London, Printed for Henry Mortlock … 1697.

    First edition, the last published work...

    £275

  3. FREEMAN, Arthur.

    Catullus Carmen 17.6 and Other Mysteries....

    London, The Author, 2020.

    This partly historical, partly philological...

    £15

  4. FREUD, Sigmund.

    Moses and monotheism [translated from the...

    New York, Alfred A, Knopf, 1939.

    First American edition of the last lifetime...

    £80

  5. FRY, Theodore.

    A brief Memoir of Francis Fry, F.S.A. of...

    [London, Printed by Barclay and Fry,] 1887.

    First edition. Francis Fry (1803–1886)...

    £850

  6. FULBECKE, William.

    An Historicall Collection of the continuall...

    London, Printed for William Ponsonby. 1601.

    First edition of Fulbecke’s Historicall...

    £5250

  7. [FUNERAL SERMONS.]

    Annotated sammelband of eleven eulogies,...

    [Paris, 1682–1692.]

    A sammelband of funeral sermons for distinguished...

    £1200

  8. GAGUIN, Robert.

    La mer des croniques et mirouer hystorial...

    Paris, [Bernard Aubry for] Jacques Nyverd,...

    Very rare Paris vernacular edition (first...

    £8500

  9. GAMON, Christophe de.

    La semaine, ou création du monde du sieur...

    [Geneva,] Gédéon Petit, 1609.

    Unauthorised second edition, scarcer than...

    £950

  10. GAZA, Theodorus.

    Grammatica introductiva; De mensibus; Apollonius...

    [(Colophon:) Venice, Aldus Manutius, 25...

    A beautiful example of early Greek printing,...

    £45000

  11. GELLIUS, Aulus.

    Auli Gellii luculentissimi scriptoris Noctes...

    Lyon, Sebastian Gryphius, 1555.

    Gryphius edition of Aulus Gellius’ famous...

    £650

  12. GELLIUS, Aulus; [Johann Friedrich GRONOVIUS, editor].

    Noctes atticae: editio nova et prioribus...

    Amsterdam, Jan Jansson, 1651.

    Jansson’s piracy of Gronovius’s celebrated...

    £450

  13. GEORGES D’AMIENS.

    Trina Pauli theologia positiva, moralis,...

    Paris, ‘apud viduam et Dionysium Thierry’,...

    First edition of these commentaries on...

    £1250

  14. [GEORGE V.]

    The Form and Order of the Service that...

    London, Novello & Company, 1911.

    A handsome copy of the Coronation service,...

    £450

  15. [GEORGE V.]

    The Form and Order of the Service that...

    Oxford, Horace Hart at the University...

    A scarce edition of the order of service...

    £125

  16. GEREMIA, Pietro.

    Opus. Sermones in adventum Domini. Sermones...

    [(Colophons:) Brescia, Giacomo Britannico,...

    First edition of Geremia’s sermons, in...

    £2800

  17. GERHARD, Johann.

    Meditationes sacrae. Editio postrema, prioribus...

    Oxford, John Lichfield for Henry Curteyne,...

    First English-printed Latin edition of...

    £950

  18. GIACOMO da Milano.

    Stimulus divini amoris Sancti Bonaventurae.

    Venice, Stefano Nicolini da Sabbio, April 1535.

    Rare edition of the Stimulus divini...

    £550

  19. GOBINET, Charles. 

    Instruction sur la vérité du Saint Sacrement,...

    Paris, François le Cointe, 1677. 

    Scarce first edition thus, containing an...

    £650

  20. [GO Keitai 吳啓太 and TEI Eihō 鄭永邦.]

    官話指南 [Guanhua zhinan; ‘A...

    Kiukiang [Jiujiang], Central China Press, 1893.

    Very rare edition of this guide to Mandarin...

    £1750