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. [GUASCO, Francesco Eugenio.]

    Lettera del primicerio di Mondorbopoli...

    ‘In Mondorbopoli’ [Alessandria?], 1788.

    Rare first edition of this anti-Jansenist...

    £275

  2. GUILLON, Pierre.

    Danti voci suae vocem virtutis. Quaestio...

    Poitiers, Jean-Felix Faulcon, [1770].

    An apparently unrecorded broadside giving...

    £275

  3. [GULIELMUS de Lavicea.]

    Dieta salutis. Sancti Bonaventure doctoris...

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

    A compilation of Franciscan devotional...

    £1250

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

    A Letter from India.

    The Roxburghe Club, 2020.

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

    £100

  5. HERMOGENES.

    Τεχνη ρητορικη τελειοτατη....

    Geneva, Pierre Aubert, 1614.

    A parallel text edition of Hermogenes in...

    £750

  6. 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

  7. HIEROCLES of Alexandria.

    Ύπομνηνα εις τα των Πυθαγορειων...

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

    London edition of the only complete work...

    £500

  8. HIERONYMUS de Villa Vitis.

    Panis quotidianus de tempore [– de sanctis...

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

    First edition, bound and handsomely rubricated...

    £5000

  9. HOFFMEISTER, Johann.

    Loci communes rerum theologicarum, quae...

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

    First edition. In the dedication to the...

    £500

  10. [HOLY SCAPULAR.]

    Instruction pour ceux et celles qui portent...

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

    A seemingly unrecorded broadside addressed...

    £350

  11. [HOMILETIC.] 

    Meditations de la seconde annee. 

    [France, c. 1700.] 

    Apparently unpublished set of meditations...

    £750

  12. HORACE.

    ...

    Edinburgh, George Mosman, 1704.

    A rare, modestly printed Scottish Horace,...

    £450

  13. HORACE.

    Quinti Horatii Flacci poemata, novis scholiis...

    [Geneva, Henri Estienne, 1574.]

    First Henri Estienne edition of the works...

    £2500

  14. HORACE.

    Opera, interpretatione et notis illustravit...

    Venice, Typographia Balleoniana, 1797.

    An uncut copy in a patterned paper binding...

    £600

  15. HORACE.

    Opera cum novo commentario ad modum Joannis...

    Paris, Didot, 1855.

    The deluxe issue of Didot’s Horace, a...

    £750

  16. HORACE; James TATE, editor. 

    Horatius restitutus: or the books...

    Cambridge, J. Smith for J. & J.J. Deighton,...

    First edition of this attempt to arrange...

    £150

  17. [HOSPICE SAINT-NICOLAS, METZ.]

    Deed granting land to the hospice.

    Metz, 5 May 1464.

    A significant document recording the grant...

    £450

  18. HOSPINIAN, Rudolf. 

    Historia Jesuitica.  Hoc est, de origine,...

    Zurich, Johannes Rudolph Wolf, 1670. 

    Second edition of Hospinian’s vast and...

    £800

  19. HOSSCHIUS, Sidronius.

    Sidronii Hosschii e Societate Iesu elegiarum...

    Antwerp, Balthasar Moretus ‘ex officina...

    First collected edition of the neo-Latin...

    £600

  20. HURTADO, Eugenio, scribe.

    [Missal for feast days.]

    Madrid, 1827.

    An extraordinary and enormous liturgical...

    £7500