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. FREZZA DALLE GROTTE, Gioseppe.

    Il Cantore ecclesiastico breve, facile,...

    Padua, Stamperia del Seminario (Giovanni...

    First edition of an uncommon plainchant...

    £1250

  2. 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

  3. [FUNERAL SERMONS.]

    Annotated sammelband of eleven eulogies,...

    [Paris, 1682–1692.]

    A sammelband of funeral sermons for distinguished...

    £1200

  4. GAGUIN, Robert.

    La mer des croniques et mirouer hystorial...

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

    Very rare Paris vernacular edition (first...

    £8500

  5. 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

  6. GAMON, Christophe de.

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

    [Geneva,] Gédéon Petit, 1609.

    Unauthorised second edition, scarcer than...

    £950

  7. GASPARI, Giovanni Battista.

    Sanctorum Ticinensis ecclesiae episcoporum...

    Pavia, Giovanni Andrea Magri, [1651].

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

    £850

  8. GELLIUS, Aulus.

    Auli Gellii luculentissimi scriptoris Noctes...

    Lyon, Sebastian Gryphius, 1555.

    Gryphius edition of Aulus Gellius’ famous...

    £650

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

    Noctes atticae: editio nova et prioribus...

    Amsterdam, Jan Jansson, 1651.

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

    £450

  10. GEORGES D’AMIENS.

    Trina Pauli theologia positiva, moralis,...

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

    First edition of these commentaries on...

    £1250

  11. [GEORGE V.]

    The Form and Order of the Service that...

    London, Novello & Company, 1911.

    A handsome copy of the Coronation service,...

    £450

  12. [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

  13. GEREMIA, Pietro.

    Opus. Sermones in adventum Domini. Sermones...

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

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

    £2800

  14. GERHARD, Johann.

    Meditationes sacrae. Editio postrema, prioribus...

    Oxford, John Lichfield for Henry Curteyne,...

    First English-printed Latin edition of...

    £650

  15. GERMBERG, Hermann.

    Proverbiorum centuriae XIV. quibus adjecta...

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

    First edition of this compendium of proverbs,...

    £850

  16. GERSON, Johannes [Pseudo-].

    Donatus [moralisatus].

    [Nuremberg, Friedrich Creussner, c. 1475.]

    Early editions of two rare devotional tracts...

    £8500

  17. [GIACOMO da Milano.]

    Stimulus divini amoris Sancti Bonaventurae.

    Venice, Stefano Nicolini da Sabbio, April 1535.

    Rare edition of the Stimulus divini...

    £550

  18. [GILBY, Anthony, translator.]

    The Testaments of the twelve Patriarches,...

    London, John Day, 1577.

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

    £12500

  19. GOBINET, Charles. 

    Instruction sur la vérité du Saint Sacrement,...

    Paris, François le Cointe, 1677. 

    Scarce first edition thus, containing an...

    £650

  20. GOEREE, Jan, engraver.

    Godtvrugtige Almanach, of Lof-gedachtenis...

    Amsterdam, 1730.

    First edition of a calendar containing...

    £1250