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. GONZAGA, Curzio.

    Il Fido amante, poema eroico.

    Mantua, [(colophon:) Giacomo Ruffinello, 1582].

    First edition of Curzio Gonzaga’s captivating...

    £600

  2. GOODWIN, Thomas.

    Romanae Historiae Anthologia … An English...

    Oxford, Leonard Lichfield for Henry Cripps,...

    Early editions of these two popular schoolbooks...

    £1600

  3. GOODWIN, Thomas.

    Romanae Historiae Anthologia … An English...

    London, R.W. for Peter Parker, 1661.

    A wholly unsophisticated Restoration sammelband...

    £850

  4. [GOSPELS.] Charles HURÉ, translator.

    Le nouveau testament de notre-seigneur...

    Paris, L. Roulland, 1712.

    An attractive early Jansenist binding,...

    £950

  5. [GRADUAL.]

    Vast historiated initial ‘A’ cut from...

    Italy (Umbria), end of thirteenth century.

    A spectacular initial on the scale of a...

    £20000

  6. GRAILE, John.

    Three Sermons preached at the Cathedral...

    London, W. Kettilby, 1685.

    First and only edition, rare. The third...

    £850

  7. [GREY SISTERS OF ST ELIZABETH.]

    ‘Kloosten den grouwe Zusters in den ouden...

    [Bruges?, c. 1835.]

    A large and detailed bird’s-eye-view...

    £850

  8. [GUASCO, Francesco Eugenio.]

    Lettera del primicerio di Mondorbopoli...

    ‘In Mondorbopoli’ [Alessandria?], 1788.

    Rare first edition of this anti-Jansenist...

    £275

  9. [GUIDO DE MONTE ROCHEN.]

    Manipulus curatorum.

    [(Colophon:) London, Richard Pynson, 1508.]

    Very rare Pynson edition of the Manipulus...

    £14000

  10. [GUIDO DE MONTE ROCHEN.]

    Manipulus curatorum.

    [(Colophon:) London, Wynkyn de Worde,...

    First Wynkyn de Worde edition of this immensely...

    £17500

  11. GUILLON, Pierre.

    Danti voci suae vocem virtutis. Quaestio...

    Poitiers, Jean-Felix Faulcon, [1770].

    An apparently unrecorded broadside giving...

    £275

  12. [GULIELMUS de Lavicea.]

    Dieta salutis. Sancti Bonaventure doctoris...

    [(Colophon:) Venice, Cesare Arrivabene,...

    A compilation of Franciscan devotional...

    £1250

  13. HEBER, Reginald, and Nicolas BARKER (editor).

    A Letter from India.

    The Roxburghe Club, 2020.

    'I do not expect that with fair prospects...

    £100

  14. HERMOGENES.

    Τεχνη ρητορικη τελειοτατη....

    Geneva, Pierre Aubert, 1614.

    A parallel text edition of Hermogenes in...

    £750

  15. HERODIAN; [Angelo POLIZIANO, translator; Thomas SPARK, editor].

    Ηρωδιανου ιστοριων βιβλια...

    Oxford, Sheldonian Theatre, for G. West...

    A finely bound copy of Herodian’s moralising...

    £250

  16. HIEROCLES of Alexandria.

    Ύπομνηνα εις τα των Πυθαγορειων...

    London, J. R. [John Redmayne] for J. Williams,...

    London edition of the only complete work...

    £500

  17. HIERONYMUS de Villa Vitis.

    Panis quotidianus de tempore [– de sanctis...

    [(Colophon:) Hagenau, Heinrich Gran for...

    First edition, bound and handsomely rubricated...

    £5000

  18. HOFFMEISTER, Johann.

    Loci communes rerum theologicarum, quae...

    [(Colophon:) Ingolstadt, Alexander Weissenhorn,...

    First edition. In the dedication to the...

    £500

  19. [HOLY SCAPULAR.]

    Instruction pour ceux et celles qui portent...

    Le Mans, ‘chez Madame V.e Dureau’,...

    A seemingly unrecorded broadside addressed...

    £350

  20. [HOMILETIC.] 

    Meditations de la seconde annee. 

    [France, c. 1700.] 

    Apparently unpublished set of meditations...

    £750