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. [FRANCIS of Paola, Saint.]

    I tredici venerdì del glorioso S. Francesco...

    Fano, Andrea Donati, 1756.

    A seemingly unrecorded edition of prayers,...

    £450

  2. FREEMAN, Arthur.

    Catullus Carmen 17.6 and Other Mysteries....

    London, The Author, 2020.

    This partly historical, partly philological...

    £15

  3. FREZZA DALLE GROTTE, Gioseppe.

    Il Cantore ecclesiastico breve, facile,...

    Padua, Stamperia del Seminario (Giovanni...

    First edition of an uncommon plainchant...

    £1250

  4. FRY, Theodore.

    A brief Memoir of Francis Fry, F.S.A. of...

    [London, Printed by Barclay and Fry,] 1887.

    First edition. Francis Fry (1803–1886)...

    £850

  5. [FUNERAL SERMONS.]

    Annotated sammelband of eleven eulogies,...

    [Paris, 1682–1692.]

    A sammelband of funeral sermons for distinguished...

    £1200

  6. GAGUIN, Robert.

    La mer des croniques et mirouer hystorial...

    Paris, [Bernard Aubry for] Jacques Nyverd,...

    Very rare Paris vernacular edition (first...

    £8500

  7. GALLARATI, Paolo.

    Pauli Gallerati I.U.D., et ex Novarien. Collegio...

    Milan, Giovanni Giacomo Como, 1623.

    The first two volumes of the expanded second...

    £2000

  8. GAMON, Christophe de.

    La semaine, ou création du monde du sieur...

    [Geneva,] Gédéon Petit, 1609.

    Unauthorised second edition, scarcer than...

    £950

  9. GASPARI, Giovanni Battista.

    Sanctorum Ticinensis ecclesiae episcoporum...

    Pavia, Giovanni Andrea Magri, [1651].

    First and only edition, rare, of this history...

    £850

  10. GELLIUS, Aulus.

    Auli Gellii luculentissimi scriptoris Noctes...

    Lyon, Sebastian Gryphius, 1555.

    Gryphius edition of Aulus Gellius’ famous...

    £650

  11. GELLIUS, Aulus; [Johann Friedrich GRONOVIUS, editor].

    Noctes atticae: editio nova et prioribus...

    Amsterdam, Jan Jansson, 1651.

    Jansson’s piracy of Gronovius’s celebrated...

    £450

  12. GEORGES D’AMIENS.

    Trina Pauli theologia positiva, moralis,...

    Paris, ‘apud viduam et Dionysium Thierry’,...

    First edition of these commentaries on...

    £1250

  13. [GEORGE V.]

    The Form and Order of the Service that...

    London, Novello & Company, 1911.

    A handsome copy of the Coronation service,...

    £450

  14. [GEORGE V.]

    The Form and Order of the Service that...

    Oxford, Horace Hart at the University...

    A scarce edition of the order of service...

    £125

  15. GEREMIA, Pietro.

    Opus. Sermones in adventum Domini. Sermones...

    [(Colophons:) Brescia, Giacomo Britannico,...

    First edition of Geremia’s sermons, in...

    £2800

  16. GERHARD, Johann.

    Meditationes sacrae. Editio postrema, prioribus...

    Oxford, John Lichfield for Henry Curteyne,...

    First English-printed Latin edition of...

    £650

  17. GERMBERG, Hermann.

    Proverbiorum centuriae XIV. quibus adjecta...

    Basel, Sebastian Henricpetri, [(colophon:)...

    First edition of this compendium of proverbs,...

    £850

  18. GERSON, Johannes [Pseudo-].

    Donatus [moralisatus].

    [Nuremberg, Friedrich Creussner, c. 1475.]

    Early editions of two rare devotional tracts...

    £8500

  19. [GIACOMO da Milano.]

    Stimulus divini amoris Sancti Bonaventurae.

    Venice, Stefano Nicolini da Sabbio, April 1535.

    Rare edition of the Stimulus divini...

    £550

  20. [GILBY, Anthony, translator.]

    The Testaments of the twelve Patriarches,...

    London, John Day, 1577.

    Fourth edition (first 1574), very rare,...

    £12500