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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ABBEVILLE, Claude d’.
Histoire de la mission des peres capucins...
Paris, François Huby, 1614.
Second edition, enlarged and revised...
£30000
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ALBERTI, Leon Battista.
El Momo. La moral e muy graciosa historia...
Alcalá de Henares, Joan Mey Flandro, 1553.
First edition in Spanish of Alberti’s...
£3800
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[ALTAR CARDS.]
Two altar cards with Latin text and images...
‘A Paris, chez I. Baudemont’, second...
Two seemingly unrecorded hand-coloured...
£2750
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ANGELI, Alessandro degli.
In astrologos coniectores libri quinque...
Lyons, Horace Cardon, 1615.
First edition of this thorough attack...
£1600
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ANTIPHONAL,
with neumes, containing music for the blessing...
Southern Germany or Bohemia, mid-15th century.
An unusual and striking antiphonal leaf...
£4250
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ANTIPHONAL,
with neumes, containing antiphons, responses...
Germany, 1st half of 12th century.
Two bifolia from a notably early antiphonal.
£5000
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ANTONIUS de Vercellis.
Sermones quadragesimales de XII mirabilibus...
Venice, Johannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis,...
A remarkable copy of the first edition...
£8500
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ANVILLE, Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d’.
Considérations générales, sur l’étude...
Paris, Galeries du Louvres, 1777
Two first edition works in one volume...
£500
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APULEIUS (Julien FLEURY, editor).
Lucii Apuleii Madaurensis Platonici philosophi...
Paris, Frederic Leonard, 1688.
First Delphin edition of the works of Apuleius,...
£350
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[AQUHORTIES.]
Abstract of the Rules and Regulations for...
Edinburgh, J. Moir, [1799?].
Broadside rules for the newly established...
£850
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ARISTIDES, Aelius.
Orationum tomi tres, nunc primum latine...
Basel, Peter Perna and Heinrich Petrus, 1566.
First edition in Latin, a remarkable...
£2750
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Aristotle: From Antiquity to the Modern Era.
Preface by Martin J. Gross. Essays by Benjamin...
Lewes, D. Giles Ltd for the Martin J....
Aristotle’s influence towers over western...
£30
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ARNIGIO, Bartolomeo.
Rime dell’Arnigio per la ill[ustre] signora...
Brescia, Giovanni Battista Bozzola, 1566.
First edition of Bartolomeo Arnigio’s...
£1750
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AUGUSTINUS TRIUMPHUS [i.e. AUGUSTINUS de Ancona].
Summa de potestate ecclesiastica.
Augsburg, [Johann Schüssler,] 6 March 1473.
First edition of this highly important...
£22500
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BACON, Francis.
Opuscula varia posthuma, philosophica,...
London, R. Daniel, impensis Octaviani...
First edition, second issue (with the...
£1250
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BARTOLI, Adolfo.
Scenari inediti della Commedia dell’arte....
Florence, Sansoni, 1880.
Rare first edition, one of only 350...
£500
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[BASKERVILLE PRESS.]
The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration...
Third and final edition of Baskerville’s...
£1200
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BAUMGARTNER, Reinhard.
Conclusiones ex universa theologia morali...
[Augsburg], Joseph Antonius Labhart, [1754].
Only edition of this attractively printed...
£175
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BEAUMONT, Joseph.
Psyche: or Loves Mysterie in XX. Canto’s:...
London, Printed by John Dawson for George...
First edition. Beaumont was one of the...
£1250
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BEAUVILLIERS, Marie de.
Conférences spirituelles d’une supérieure...
Paris, Moquet et Cie for Toulouse, 1838.
Scarce second edition (first 1837, also...
£400