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. BALBUS, Johannes.

    Catholicon.

    [Strasbourg, The R-Printer (Adolf Rusch),...

    Third edition of the earliest printed lexicon,...

    £65000

  2. GAZA, Theodorus.

    Grammatica introductiva; De mensibus; Apollonius...

    [(Colophon:) Venice, Aldus Manutius, 25...

    A beautiful example of early Greek printing,...

    £45000

  3. LUDOLPH of Saxony.

    Vita Christi.

    Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 20 December 1478.

    Early incunable edition of Ludolph of Saxony’s...

    £45000

  4. ARCHIMEDES.

    Τα μεχρι νυν σωζομενα,...

    Basel, Johannes Herwagen, [(colophon):...

    Editio princeps of the works of...

    £45000

  5. [LAURENTIUS, Frater; Jan van BREDERODE, translator.]

    [Summe le roy of des conincs summe.]

    [(Colophon:) Haarlem, [Jacob Bellaert],...

    Rare early edition in Dutch (first Delft...

    £40000

  6. [INDULGENCE.] 

    Letter of Indulgence (in Catalan),...

    [Lerida, Heinrich Botel, c. 1498.] 

    Extremely rare incunable indulgence in...

    £34000

  7. ABBEVILLE, Claude d’.

    Histoire de la mission des peres Capucins...

    Paris, François Huby, 1614.

    Second edition, enlarged and revised from...

    £30000

  8. LACTANTIUS.

    Opera.

    [Venice,] Vindelinus de Spira, 1472.

    Magnificent incunable edition of the works...

    £25000

  9. [INCUNABLE SAMMELBAND.]

    Sammelband of ten works.

    Rome, Stephan Plannck and Eucharius Silber,...

    A sammelband of ten Roman incunables, nine...

    £25000

  10. HERP, Hendrik.

    Speculum aureum decem praeceptorum Dei.

    [(Colophon:) Mainz, Peter Schoeffer, 10...

    First edition of this collection of sermons...

    £24000

  11. AUGUSTINUS TRIUMPHUS [i.e. AUGUSTINUS de Ancona].  

    Summa de potestate ecclesiastica.

    Augsburg, [Johann Schüssler,] 6 March 1473.

    First edition of this highly important...

    £22500

  12. [JEROME, Saint.]

    Obitus beati iheromini.

    [Delft, Jacob Jacobszoon van der Meer,...

    Rare incunable edition (first printed in...

    £22500

  13. [GRADUAL.]

    Vast historiated initial ‘A’ cut from...

    Italy (Umbria), end of thirteenth century.

    A spectacular initial on the scale of a...

    £20000

  14. [CANONS REGULAR OF THE LATERAN.]

    Regula et constitutiones Canonicorum Regularium...

    Rome, apud Paulum Bladum, 1592. 

    The most complete edition, rare, of the...

    £18500

  15. PLATO; Jean DE SERRES, translator and commentator; Henri ESTIENNE, editor.

    Απαντα τα σωζομενα …...

    [Geneva], Henri Estienne, 1578.

    A magnificent large-paper copy of the first...

    £18000

  16. CHAMPIER, [Symphorien].

    Les gestes ensembles la vie du preulx chevalier...

    Lyons, Gilbert Devilliers, [(colophon:)...

    Rare first edition of this richly illustrated...

    £18000

  17. ARCHIMEDES, BOETHIUS, and CAMPANO da Novara; Luca GAURICO, editor.

    Tetragonismus id est circuli quadratura...

    Venice, [Giacomo Penzio for] Giovanni...

    The first appearance in print of any complete...

    £18000

  18. EUCLID.

    Στοιχειων βιβλ. ιε εκ...

    Basel, Johannes Herwagen, September 1533.

    Editio princeps of Euclid, the ‘oldest...

    £18000

  19. [ANTHOLOGIA GRAECA PLANUDEA.]

    [Edited by Janus Lascaris.]

    [Florence, Lorenzo di Francesco de Alopa,...

    Editio princeps, a beautiful printing...

    £16500

  20. [MAILLES, Jacques de.]

    La tresioyeuse plaisante & recreative hystoire...

    Paris, [(colophon:) Nicolas Cousteau for]...

    First edition of Jacques de Mailles’...

    £12500