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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[ALMANACK.]
Étrennes mignones [sic], curieuses et...
Paris, Claude-Jacques-Charles [Durand]...
A very rare Parisian almanack for 1775,...
£1500
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[ALMANACK.]
London Almanack for the Year of Christ 1785.
[London,] Printed for the Company of Stationers,...
A very attractive miniature London Almanack...
£950
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[ALMANACK.]
Les perfidies supposées ou les médisances...
Paris, Janet, ‘Successeur du Sr...
A seemingly unrecorded almanack for 1800,...
£1450
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[ALMANACK.]
Les étrennes à la rose, ou le rosier...
Paris, Janet, [1804?].
A charming literary almanack, or ‘rosebush...
£2500
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PITOU, Louis-Ange.
L’Urne des Stuarts et des Bourbons, ou...
Paris, [Beraud for] L.A. Pitou, 31 August...
First and only surviving edition of this...
£650
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HURTADO, Eugenio, scribe.
[Missal for feast days.]
Madrid, 1827.
An extraordinary and enormous liturgical...
£7500
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[CRIMEAN WAR.]
Les militaires chrétiens a la guerre d’orient....
Versailles, Beau jeune, [1856].
First and only edition, rare, of this unusual...
£375
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RICCI, Giovanni, and Ercolano PORTA.
Storia della missione francescana e del...
Bologna, Stabilimenti tipografici riuniti,...
First and only edition of this history...
£750
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[SHANGHAI.]
Shanghai of To-day. A Souvenir Album of...
Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Singapore, Kelly...
Third edition, revised and enlarged (first...
£1250
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NIXON, Howard M.
Broxbourne Library: Styles and Designs...
London, Maggs Brothers for the Broxbourne...
First edition, one of three hundred copies,...
£875
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MYERS, Robin, Michael HARRIS, and Giles MANDELBROTE (eds).
Lives in Book History: Changing Contours...
Leicester, Garendon Press, 2022.
‘This volume has grown out of one event...
£35
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PEARSON, David.
Bookbindings: an illustrated History.
Oxford, Bodleian Library Publishing, 2026.
Richly illustrated throughout, this book...
£50