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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ACETI DE’ PORTI, Serafino.
Novo paradiso di delitie spirituali, nel...
Bologna, Giovanni Rossi, 1563.
Rare first edition of this devotional work...
£850
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AESOP, et al. [George STEWART, editor].
Selectiores Aesopi Phrygis fabulae, et...
Edinburgh, Tho. Ruddiman for George Stewart,...
First edition thus, scarce, a Scottish...
£375
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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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ALBERTUS MAGNUS, [Pseudo-].
Tractatus de virtutibus … scd’m alios...
Memmingen, [Albrecht Kunne, c. 1488].
An early edition of the Paradise...
£2500
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ALCIONIO, Pietro.
Petri Alcyonii Medices legatus de exsilio.
[Venice, in the house of Aldus Manutius...
First edition of Alcionio’s dialogue...
£5750
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[ALMANACK.]
Calendarium Tyrnaviense ad annum Jesu Chris[ti]...
[Tyrnau (Trnava), 1731.]
A remarkable almanack binding of part-printed,...
£1850
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[ALMANACK.]
L’Esprit des chansonniers, extrain [sic?]...
Paris, Le Fuel, [1826?].
A very rare enamelled metal binding...
£2750
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[ALMANACK.]
Les etrennes a la rose, ou le rosier d’amour.
Paris, Janet, [1804?].
A charming literary almanack, or ‘rosebush...
£2500
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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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ALTING, Jacob; Heinrich Jakob van BASHUYSEN, editor.
Compendium fundamentorum punctationis linguae...
Hanau, Johann Georg Winsheimer ‘in Typographia...
First and only edition, seemingly the...
£1250
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AMBROSE of Milan, AUGUSTINE, and HIERONYMUS.
De virginitate opuscula Sanctorum doctorum,...
Rome, Paolo Manuzio, 1562.
Four first editions from Paolo Manuzio’s...
£4000
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[AMERICAN EDUCATION.]
An Oration to Children by Way of Information.
[New England, c. 1800.]
An American manuscript of seemingly...
£1200
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ANGLÉS, José.
Flores theologicarum quaestionum, in quartum...
Rome, Giuseppe de Angelis, 1578.
Scarce second edition (first Cagliari,...
£750
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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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[ANTIPHONAL.]
Very large historiated initial ‘H’...
Italy (Siena), c. 1300.
A very fine large initial painted in...
£6750
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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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APOLLODORUS; Benedetto EGIO, translator.
Απολλοδωρου του Αθηναιου...
[Heidelberg,] ex officina Commeliniana, 1599.
Second edition (first 1555) of this...
£875
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APPIAN of Alexandria.
Civili. Appiano Alessandrino delle guerre...
Venice, [Pietro Nicolini da Sabbio for...
A much-annotated copy of these late...
£3000
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[AQUHORTIES.]
Abstract of the Rules and Regulations for...
Edinburgh, Printed by J. Moir, Paterson’s...
Broadside rules for the newly established...
£850