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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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[CHARTONNET, Antoine-François.]
Considerations sur les devoirs des personnes qui sont engagées par leur état à servir les...
Paris, chez Edme Couterot, 1695.
Rare first edition of this religious manual of instruction aimed at those caring for the sick in hospitals, exhorting carers to look after the bodily and spiritual needs of their charges ‘with charity, gentleness, compassion, patience, diligence, zeal, respect and humility’.
£275
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CHEVALIER, André-Joseph, professor; A.J. BERENTS, compiler.
‘Tractatus De Fide, Spe et Charitate Dictatus ab...
[Douai, 9 March–4 August] 1787.
A manuscript treatise concerning the three theological virtues of faith, hope, and charity as expounded in Thomas Aquinas’s Summa theologiae, compiled by a student at the University of Douai from lectures by André-Joseph Chevalier.
£375
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[CHINA.]
Business report written to a Mr Luo by two Chinese Christian employees.
[China], 咸豐壬子年 [1852].
An interesting mid-nineteenth-century report written by two employees (Andrew Zhu 朱安德肋 and Anna Pan 潘亞納) to their manager Mr Luo 羅當家大人, granting us an unusual glimpse into the personal lives of two nineteenth-century Chinese Christian converts.
£750
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[CHOISY, François Timoléon, Abbé de.]
Journal ou suite de voyage de Siam. En forme des lettres familieres fait en M.DC.LXXXV...
Amsterdam, Pierre Mortier, 1687.
Amsterdam edition, issued the same year as the first Paris edition, recounting a voyage to Siam by the prolific French writer, former cross-dresser, and Jesuit priest, the Abbé de Choisy.
£300
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CHRYSOSTOM, John.
[Opera: Homeliae.] Que in secundo Ioannis Chrisostomi volumine continentur: Super Mattheum homelie 89 …...
Venice, Stagnino & de Gregoriis, 1503.
First edition of Chrysostom’s Opera omnia, the second volume (of two), annotated throughout by two critical readers.
£2800
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CHRYSOSTOM, John.
[Opera] Que in secondo volumine continentur super Mattheum homiliae … super Joannem homiliae … de laudibus...
[Venice, Bernardino Stagnino and Gregorio de’ Gregori, February 1503.]
The second volume of the first collected edition of John Chrysostom’s sermons on the New Testament and the monastic life, a wide-margined copy with extensive annotations.
£2500
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CHRYSOSTOM, John.
Opera …
[(Colophon:) Venice, Bernardino Stagnino and Gregorio de’ Gregori, 9 February 1503.]
The first collected edition of John Chrysostom’s sermons, a wide-margined copy with sixteenth-century Bohemian provenance in a contemporary pigskin binding with bosses, neatly annotated and with two extensive additional manuscript indexes dated 1506.
£3750
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[CHURCH OF ENGLAND.]
The New Weeks Preparation for a worthy Receiving of the Lord’s Supper, as recommended and appointed by the...
London, printed from the edition of the late Edwd. Wickstead, for T. Wilson and R. Spence, York, [c. 1780–1800?].
An attractive copy of two later editions of these collections of prayers, hymns, meditations, and self-examinations, with a focus on Holy Communion.
£250
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CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA (Titus Flavius CLEMENS); Gentian HERVET, translator.
Omnia opera.
Paris, Sebastien Nivelle, 1572.
A thoroughly annotated copy of this early edition of the complete works of Clement of Alexandria, in the Latin translation of the theologian and humanist Gentian Hervet (or Hervetus, 1499–1584).
£4750
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CLEMENT VII.
Tröstliche vermanung Bapst Clements des VII. an Römische Kaiserlich und Künigliche Maiesteten &c. zu ernstlicher...
[Augsburg, Alexander Weissenhorn,] 1532.
First and only edition of this German translation of a papal bull addressing the Turkish threat in Europe.
£1500
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[COLVIL, Samuel.]
‘Mock Poem, or Whiggs Supplication Part ii’.
1670s?
A fine contemporary manuscript of the second part of Colvil’s rollicking ‘Scottish Hudibras’, a satire on Scots Presbyterianism and sectarian wrangling between non-conformists in general.
£1250
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[COMMON PRAYER.]
The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church,...
London, Millar Ritchie for J. Good and E. Harding, 1794.
A splendid copy of the Good and Harding Book of Common Prayer, in a striking masonic binding by John Lovejoy.
£1850
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[CONGREGATION OF RITES.]
Sacra Rituum congregatione … Card. Otthobono Veneta, seu Mediolanen. Beatificationis, & Canonizationis...
Rome, Tipografia della Reverenda Camera Apostolica, 1734.
A seemingly unrecorded volume supporting the beatification and canonisation of Girolamo Emiliani, the founder of the Somascan Fathers, bound in Rome for presentation to a member of the Mocenigo family of Venice, most likely the future doge Alvise Mocenigo while ambassador in Rome.
£1750
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[CONGREGAZIONE DELL’ORATORIO DI ROMA.]
Sammelband of fourteen libretti.
Rome, 1765–1768.
A sammelband of rare devotional libretti printed for the use of the Oratorians of Rome, many composed by Pietro Metastasio, in a handsome contemporary Roman binding matching a companion volume in the Henry Davis Gift in the British Library.
£1750
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CORTÈS, Gioacchino.
Dissertazione anti-Bolgeniana sopra la carità difesa dal suo autore l’abate Gioacchino Cortes contro...
Rome, Salomoni, 1793.
First edition of this response to and attempted refutation of Bolgeni’s Della carità o amor di Dio by the Spanish Jesuit Joachim Cortès. Della carità was the best-known work of the Jesuit theologian and controversialist Gianvincenzo Bolgeni, in which he had argued, against the Dominican...
£450
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COSTER, François.
Piarum et Christ. institutionum libri tres, in usum sodalitatis B. Mariae Virginis primum conscripti, nunc...
Douai, Jean Bogard, 1582.
Very rare Douai edition of this devotional work by the Belgian Jesuit François Coster (1532–1619), first published at Cologne in 1578, illustrated with woodcuts of the Crucifixion and Our Lady of Sorrows.
£675
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CYPRIAN.
D. Caecilii Cypriani episcopi Carthaginiensis, martyris Christi opera, quotquot perquirentibus reperire Dei munere concessum...
Paris, Guillaume Des Bois, 1564.
An attractive edition of the works of Cyprian (and indeed Pseudo-Cyprian) edited by the Parisian printer and scholar Guillaume Morel (d. 1564), with interesting marginalia.
£975
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CYPRIAN, Saint; Desiderius ERASMUS, editor.
Opera [– Alter tomus operum].
Lyons, Sébastien Gryphe, 1550.
A richly annotated copy of the works of the third-century martyr and bishop of Carthage, St Cyprian, with later Portuguese provenance.
£1800
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[DAMPMARTIN, Pierre de; Charles SOREL, editor.]
La fortune de la cour. Ouvrage curieux tiré des memoires d’un des principaux...
Paris, Nicolas de Sercy, 1642.
Rare second edition, revised and expanded with several new discourses, of this important political treatise dating from the French Wars of Religion.
£500
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DARRÉ, G.G.
‘Conferences diaconales données par Mr l’abbé Darré, Vicaire Général au GrandSéminaire d’Auch. Année...
Auch, 1864.
An attractively written manuscript of Abbé Darré’s practical manual for the use of young priests entering pastoral ministry, the text remaining unprinted, according to OCLC, until 1872.
£200