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. KARG, Stanislaus, Celso EISENMAN, and Eccard HOCHENBAUM.

    Fur theologicè examinatus, & in judicio...

    Munich, Johann Lucas Straub, [1712].

    Only edition, rare, of this dissertation...

    £275

  2. [PRAYERBOOK.]

    ‘Gebetbuch’.

    [Germany, early nineteenth century.]

    An attractive early nineteenth-century...

    £185

  3. [RICHARDSON, Jonathan.]

    The general Address (in two Parts) of the...

    London, Printed by W. Nicol, late Bulmer...

    Rare first edition of a revised version...

    £1600

  4. LA SERRE, Jean-Puget de.

    Grab-Statt der weltlichen Ergötzlichkeiten,...

    Regensburg, Johann Conrad Peetz und Bader,...

    First edition in German of Tombeau des...

    £375

  5. [KAMES, Henry HOME, Lord].

    Grundsaetze der Kritik, aus dem Englischen...

    Vienna, Johann Thomas Edlen von Trattnern,...

    A Viennese reprint of the first German...

    £250

  6. CASTELLESI, Adriano.

    Hadriani cardinalis de vera philosophia...

    Cologne, Melchior von Neuss, 1540.

    A fine sammelband of theological works,...

    £1750

  7. [NAUDÉ, Philippe, attr. author].

    Histoire abrégée de la naissance & du...

    Cologne, Pierre Marteau, 1692.

    First edition of the earliest work on the...

    £750

  8. ABBEVILLE, Claude d’.

    Histoire de la mission des peres Capucins...

    Paris, François Huby, 1614.

    Second edition, enlarged and revised from...

    £30000

  9. [MONS.]

    Histoire de l’institution de l’ecole...

    Mons, J. B. Varret, 1748.

    First and only edition, very rare, of this...

    £975

  10. [BOIS-SEIGNEUR-ISAAC.]

    Histoire memorable et digne de foy, du...

    Mons, Charles Michel, 1593.

    First and only edition, very rare, of an...

    £1250

  11. TYRE, William, Archbishop of, and Giuseppe OROLOGGI (translator).

    Historia della guerra sacra di Gierusalemme,...

    Venice, Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1562.

    First Italian edition of William of Tyre’s...

    £2800

  12. HOSPINIAN, Rudolf. 

    Historia Jesuitica.  Hoc est, de origine,...

    Zurich, Johannes Rudolph Wolf, 1670. 

    Second edition of Hospinian’s vast and...

    £800

  13. IBN VERGA, Solomon; Georg GENTIUS, translator.

    Historia Judaica res Judaeorum ab eversa...

    Amsterdam, Pieter Niellius, 1651.

    First Latin edition of Solomon Ibn Verga’s...

    £3750

  14. [BIBLE.]

    The Holy Bible, containing the Old and...

    Oxford, T. Wright and W. Gill, 1769.

    First quarto edition of the Oxford ‘standard’...

    £5250

  15. CATTANI DA DIACCETO, Francesco. 

    Homelie … sopra la sequenza del corpo...

    Florence, Lorenzo Ducale, 1559.

    Uncommon first edition of a collection...

    £550

  16. BLANCHON, Jacques.

    Iacobi Blanchoni Ucessiensis adversus Ludovicum...

    Lyons, Jean de Tournes, 1550.

    First edition of a very rare work of sixteenth-century...

    £950

  17. [EDWARD VII – COMMON PRAYER.]

    [Cover title: ‘Prayer Book of...

    [Norwood (MA), Plimpton Press for] New...

    Authorised American edition of the Essex...

    £500

  18. ZAND, Nathalie.

    [Drop-head title:] Les olives inférieures...

    [Paris, 31 December 1927.]

    Scarce offprint of a work on the inferior...

    £550

  19. [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

  20. PEPE, Stefano.

    [Half-title: ‘Il Cappuccino d’Este...

    [Italy, second half of the seventeenth...

    A seemingly unpublished life of Alfonso...

    £1250