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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BALBUS, Johannes.
Catholicon.
[Strasbourg, The R-Printer (Adolf Rusch),...
Third edition of the earliest printed lexicon,...
£65000
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GAZA, Theodorus.
Grammatica introductiva; De mensibus; Apollonius...
[(Colophon:) Venice, Aldus Manutius, 25...
A beautiful example of early Greek printing,...
£45000
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[PSALTER.] Justinus DECADYUS, editor.
Ψαλτηριον.
Venice, Aldus Manutius, [not after 1 October...
The elegant first Aldine printing of the...
£45000
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[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
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[INDULGENCE.]
Letter of Indulgence (in Catalan),...
[Lerida, Heinrich Botel, c. 1498.]
Extremely rare incunable indulgence in...
£34000
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ABBEVILLE, Claude d’.
Histoire de la mission des peres Capucins...
Paris, François Huby, 1614.
Second edition, enlarged and revised from...
£30000
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LACTANTIUS.
Opera.
[Venice,] Vindelinus de Spira, 1472.
Magnificent incunable edition of the works...
£25000
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[INCUNABLE SAMMELBAND.]
Sammelband of ten works.
Rome, Stephan Plannck and Eucharius Silber,...
A sammelband of ten Roman incunables, nine...
£25000
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HERP, Hendrik.
Speculum aureum decem praeceptorum Dei.
[(Colophon:) Mainz, Peter Schoeffer, 10...
First edition of this collection of sermons...
£24000
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[PSALTER.] [BRUNO, Archbishop of Würzburg, editor.]
Psalterium.
[Würzburg, Georg Reyser, c. 1488–1489.]
First edition of the Psalter with the commentary...
£24000
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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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[JEROME, Saint.]
Obitus beati iheromini.
[Delft, Jacob Jacobszoon van der Meer,...
Rare incunable edition (first printed in...
£22500
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[GRADUAL.]
Vast historiated initial ‘A’ cut from...
Italy (Umbria), end of thirteenth century.
A spectacular initial on the scale of a...
£20000
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[CANONS REGULAR OF THE LATERAN.]
Regula et constitutiones Canonicorum Regularium...
Rome, apud Paulum Bladum, 1592.
The most complete edition, rare, of the...
£18500
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ZARLINO, Gioseffo.
Le Istitutioni harmoniche … nelle quali;...
Venice, [Pietro da Fino], 1558.
First edition, rare, of ‘arguably the...
£15000
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PAULUS de Sancta Maria.
Scrutinium scripturarum.
[(Colophon:) Mainz, Peter Schoeffer, 7 January...
Fifth edition (first Strasbourg, not after...
£12500
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PIUS II, Pope (Enea Silvio PICCOLOMINI); Nicolaus DE WYLE, editor.
[Epistolae familiares; De duobus amantibus...
[Reutlingen, Michael Greyff, not after 1478.]
First combined edition of Pius II’s...
£12500
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[LA VIGNE, André de, and Octavien de SAINT-GELAIS.]
Le vergier dhonneur nouvellement imprime...
[Paris, Pierre le Dru and Jean Petit, 1503.]
Extremely rare first edition of the Vergier...
£120000
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[OXFORD UNIVERSITY.]
Pietas Universitatis Oxoniensis in obitum...
Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1761.
First edition, one of fifty copies on large...
£10000
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CAESAR, Gaius Julius.
C. Julii Caesaris quae extant. Accuratissime...
London, Jacob Tonson, 1712.
First edition of the celebrated Tonson’s...
£9500