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. ABBEVILLE, Claude d’.

    Histoire de la mission des peres capucins...

    Paris, François Huby, 1614.

    Second edition, enlarged and revised...

    £30000

  2. ACETI DE’ PORTI, Serafino. 

    Novo paradiso di delitie spirituali, nel...

    Bologna, Giovanni Rossi, 1563. 

    Rare first edition of this devotional work...

    £850

  3. AESOP, et al. [George STEWART, editor].

    Selectiores Aesopi Phrygis fabulae, et...

    Edinburgh, Tho. Ruddiman for George Stewart,...

    First edition thus, scarce, a Scottish...

    £375

  4. 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

  5. [ALTAR CARDS.]

    Two altar cards with Latin text and images...

    ‘A Paris, chez I. Baudemont’, second...

    Two seemingly unrecorded hand-coloured...

    £2750

  6. AMBROSE of Milan, AUGUSTINE, and HIERONYMUS.

    De virginitate opuscula Sanctorum doctorum,...

    Rome, Paolo Manuzio, 1563.

    Four first editions from Paolo Manuzio’s...

    £4000

  7. ANACREON.

    [Odaria.] Ανακρεοντος τηιου...

    Parma, [Bodoni] ‘in aedibus Palatinis’,...

    Thick paper copy, apparently one of...

    £650

  8. ANGELI, Alessandro degli.

    In astrologos coniectores libri quinque...

    Lyons, Horace Cardon, 1615.

    First edition of this thorough attack...

    £1600

  9. ANGLÉS, José. 

    Flores theologicarum quaestionum, in quartum...

    Rome, Giuseppe de Angelis, 1578. 

    Scarce second edition (first Cagliari,...

    £750

  10. [ANTIPHONAL.]

    Very large historiated initial ‘H’,...

    Italy (Siena), c. 1300.

    A very fine large initial painted in...

    £6750

  11. [ANTIPHONAL.]

    Antiphonal, with neumes, containing music...

    Southern Germany or Bohemia, mid-fifteenth...

    An unusual and striking antiphonal leaf...

    £4250

  12. ANTIPHONAL,

    with neumes, containing antiphons, responses...

    Germany, 1st half of 12th century. 

    Two bifolia from a notably early antiphonal. 

    £5000

  13. ANTONIUS de Vercellis. 

    Sermones quadragesimales de XII mirabilibus...

    Venice, Johannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis,...

    A remarkable copy of the first edition...

    £8500

  14. ANVILLE, Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d’.

    Considérations générales, sur l’étude...

    Paris, Galeries du Louvres, 1777

    Two first edition works in one volume...

    £500

  15. APPIAN of Alexandria.

    Civili. Appiano Alessandrino delle guerre...

    Venice, [Pietro Nicolini da Sabbio for...

    A much-annotated copy of these late...

    £3000

  16. APULEIUS, Lucius. 

    L. Apuleii Metamorphoseos, sive lusus...

    Venice, ‘in aedibus Aldi et Andreae...

    First Aldine edition of the works of...

    £2000

  17. [AQUHORTIES.]

    Abstract of the Rules and Regulations for...

    Edinburgh, Printed by J. Moir, Paterson’s...

    Broadside rules for the newly established...

    £850

  18. [ARCHCONFRATERNITY OF THE MOST HOLY CRUCIFIX.]

    Distinta descrizione della machina, luminari,...

    Rome, per il Casaletti, 1775.

    Rare record of a procession made by...

    £250

  19. [ARCICONFRATERNITA DELLA MORTE.]

    Pia unione aggregata all’Arciconfraternita...

    Ferrara, 181[7].

    Ten unrecorded, part-printed receipts...

    £650

  20. ARISTIDES, Aelius. 

    Orationum tomi tres, nunc primum latine...

    Basel, Peter Perna and Heinrich Petrus, 1566. 

    First edition in Latin, a remarkable...

    £2750