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. [MILAN, province of.]

    Ordo admittendi virgines ad monasterii...

    Milan, Tamburini and Valdoni, 1843.

    Scarce edition of this set of rites for...

    £200

  2. MILBANK, Augustus Sussex.

    A Treatise upon the political & social...

    [Richmond, M. Bell for] London, Messrs...

    First and only edition of a rare Yorkshire-printed...

    £125

  3. MILNER, Joseph.

    Practical Sermons, by the late Rev. Joseph...

    York: Printed by G. Peacock; and sold...

    First edition, rare, collecting 21 sermons...

    £175

  4. MIRANDULA (or MIRANDOLA), Ottaviano. 

    Illustrium poetarum flores. 

    Antwerp, Joannes Bellerus, 1563. 

    A remarkable copy, with numerous and eloquent...

    £1950

  5. [MISSAL.]

    Ordinaire de la Messe.

    [Paris?, c. 1890–1900].

    A lithographed and elegantly hand-coloured...

    £350

  6. [MISSIONARIES.]

    Shopping list of Christian texts, signed...

    [China, c. 1850.]

    A shopping list of Chinese Christian texts...

    £1500

  7. [MONS.]

    Histoire de l’institution de l’ecole...

    Mons, J. B. Varret, 1748.

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

    £975

  8. [MOREAN WAR.]

    Journal of the Venetian Campaigne, A.D. 1687. under...

    London, H.C. for R. Taylor, 1688.

    First edition of an important account of...

    £2500

  9. MORI, Ascanio de’.

    Giuoco piacevole.

    Mantua, Giacomo Ruffinello, 1575.

    First edition of an uncommon Renaissance...

    £950

  10. MOUSSON, Pierre.

    Tragoediae seu diversarum gentium et imperiorum...

    La Flèche, George Griveau, 1621.

    First edition, provincially-printed, of...

    £725

  11. MUSGRAVE, Samuel.

    Two Dissertations. I. On the Graecian...

    London, printed by J. Nichols, 1782.

    First edition of this work by the classical...

    £450

  12. MYERS, Robin, Michael HARRIS, and Giles MANDELBROTE (eds).

    Lives in Book History: Changing Contours...

    Leicester, Garendon Press, 2022.

    ‘This volume has grown out of one event...

    £35

  13. [NAUDÉ, Philippe, attr. author].

    Histoire abrégée de la naissance & du...

    Cologne, Pierre Marteau, 1692.

    First edition of the earliest work on the...

    £750

  14. NAVARRETE, Domingo Fernández. 

    Tratados historicos, politicos, ethicos,...

    Madrid, Juan Garcia Infançon for Florian...

    Scarce first edition, one of the most important...

    £3750

  15. NAVARRETE, Domingo Fernández.

    Tratados historicos, politicos, ethicos,...

    Madrid, Juan Garcia Infançon for Florian...

    Scarce first edition, one of the most important...

    £4750

  16. NELSON, John.

    An Extract of John Nelson’s Journal,...

    Bristol, E. Farley & Co., 1767.

    Rare first edition, printed in Bristol,...

    £600

  17. NIXON, Howard M. 

    Broxbourne Library: Styles and Designs...

    London, Maggs Brothers for the Broxbourne...

    First edition, one of three hundred copies,...

    £875

  18. NONIUS MARCELLUS.

    De proprietate sermonum. Iam demum innumeris...

    Antwerp, Christophe Plantin, 1565.

    First critical edition of this grammar...

    £450

  19. [ORDE, John Powlett.]

    A collection of 111 original compositions...

    Eton, 1818–1820.

    A delightful insight into classical education...

    £1750

  20. ORIBASIUS. 

    Commentaria in Aphorismos Hippocratis …...

    Paris, Simon de Colines, 1533. 

    First edition of this commentary on Hippocrates,...

    £1750