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. [ALMANACK.]

    Calendarium Tyrnaviense ad annum Jesu Chris[ti]...

    [Tyrnau (Trnava), 1731.]

    A remarkable almanack binding of part-printed,...

    £1850

  6. [ALMANACK.]

    London Almanack for the Year of Christ 1820.

    [London,] Printed for the Company of Stationers,...

    An extraordinary binding of silver filigree...

    £2750

  7. [ALMANACK.]

    L’Esprit des chansonniers, extrain [sic?]...

    Paris, Le Fuel, [1826?].

    A very rare enamelled metal binding...

    £2750

  8. [ALMANACK.]

    Les etrennes a la rose, ou le rosier d’amour.

    Paris, Janet, [1804?].

    A charming literary almanack, or ‘rosebush...

    £2500

  9. [ALMANACK.]

    Étrennes mignonnes, curieuses et utiles,...

    Paris, Guillot, 1790.

    A French almanack for 1790 in a delightful...

    £2750

  10. [ALTAR CARDS.]

    Two altar cards with Latin text and images...

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

    Two seemingly unrecorded hand-coloured...

    £2750

  11. AMBROSE of Milan, AUGUSTINE, and HIERONYMUS.

    De virginitate opuscula Sanctorum doctorum,...

    Rome, Paolo Manuzio, 1562.

    Four first editions from Paolo Manuzio’s...

    £4000

  12. ANACREON.

    [Odaria.] Ανακρεοντος τηιου...

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

    Thick paper copy, apparently one of...

    £650

  13. ANGLÉS, José. 

    Flores theologicarum quaestionum, in quartum...

    Rome, Giuseppe de Angelis, 1578. 

    Scarce second edition (first Cagliari,...

    £750

  14. [ANTHOLOGIA GRAECA PLANUDEA.]

    Florilegium diversorum epigrammatum in...

    [(Colophon:) Venice, in the house of Aldus...

    Second Aldine edition of the earliest...

    £2000

  15. [ANTIPHONAL.]

    Antiphonal, with neumes, containing music...

    Southern Germany or Bohemia, mid-fifteenth...

    An unusual and striking antiphonal leaf...

    £4250

  16. ANTIPHONAL,

    with neumes, containing antiphons, responses...

    Germany, 1st half of 12th century. 

    Two bifolia from a notably early antiphonal. 

    £5000

  17. [ANTIPHONAL.]

    Very large historiated initial ‘H’...

    Italy (Siena), c. 1300.

    A very fine large initial painted in...

    £6750

  18. ANTONIUS de Vercellis. 

    Sermones quadragesimales de XII mirabilibus...

    Venice, Johannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis,...

    A remarkable copy of the first edition...

    £8500

  19. ANVILLE, Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d’.

    Considérations générales, sur l’étude...

    Paris, Galeries du Louvres, 1777

    Two first edition works in one volume...

    £500

  20. APPIAN of Alexandria.

    Civili. Appiano Alessandrino delle guerre...

    Venice, [Pietro Nicolini da Sabbio for...

    A much-annotated copy of these late...

    £3000