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. MAXIMUS OF TYRE.

    Μαξιμου Τυριου φιλοσοφου...

    [Geneva,] Henri II Estienne, 1557.

    Editio princeps of the forty-one...

    £1500

  2. MAXIMUS the Confessor; Jean PICOT, translator.

    Sanctissimi patris magistrique, Maximi,...

    [(Colophon:) Paris,] Guillaume Morel, [1560].

    First edition of Jean Picot’s Latin translation...

    £850

  3. MEFFRET, Johann.

    Sermones Meffreth alias Ortulus regine...

    [Basel, Nicolaus Kesler, not after 1485.]

    A volume of sermons with early English...

    £6500

  4. MELCHIOR, Christian.

    ‘Synechia sive summa lectionum Plutarchicarum...

    [Brandenburg an der Havel, 1620.]

    An unpublished early seventeenth-century...

    £6500

  5. MELECRINIS, Maria Teresa. 

    Le voci del cuore a Maria Teresa Melecrinis...

    Naples, stamperia dell' Iride, 1846. 

    Very rare collection of odes and sonnets...

    £175

  6. MERCURIALE, Girolamo. 

    De arte gymnastica libri sex, in quibus...

    Venice, [Lucantonio II] Giunta, 1587. 

    Third edition of ‘the first illustrated...

    £2750

  7. [MILAN, province of.]

    Ordo admittendi virgines ad monasterii...

    Milan, Tamburini and Valdoni, 1843.

    Scarce edition of this set of rites for...

    £200

  8. 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

  9. MILNER, Joseph.

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

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

    First edition, rare, collecting 21 sermons...

    £175

  10. MIRANDULA (or MIRANDOLA), Ottaviano. 

    Illustrium poetarum flores. 

    Antwerp, Joannes Bellerus, 1563. 

    A remarkable copy, with numerous and eloquent...

    £1950

  11. [MISSAL.]

    Ordinaire de la Messe.

    [Paris?, c. 1890–1900].

    A lithographed and elegantly hand-coloured...

    £350

  12. [MISSAL.]

    Nouveau paroissien romain, contenant l’offices...

    Lyons, H. Curnier, 1869.

    A pocket Paroissien in a charming...

    £275

  13. [MISSIONARIES.]

    Shopping list of Christian texts, signed...

    [China, c. 1850.]

    A shopping list of Chinese Christian texts...

    £1500

  14. [MONS.]

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

    Mons, J. B. Varret, 1748.

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

    £975

  15. [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

  16. MORI, Ascanio de’.

    Giuoco piacevole.

    Mantua, Giacomo Ruffinello, 1575.

    First edition of an uncommon Renaissance...

    £950

  17. MOUSSON, Pierre.

    Tragoediae seu diversarum gentium et imperiorum...

    La Flèche, George Griveau, 1621.

    First edition, provincially-printed, of...

    £725

  18. MÜNSTER, Sebastian.

    [Melechet ha-Dikduk]. מלאכת...

    [Basel,] Johann Froben, 1524.

    First edition of Sebastian Münster’s...

    £6500

  19. MUSGRAVE, Samuel.

    Two Dissertations. I. On the Graecian...

    London, printed by J. Nichols, 1782.

    First edition of this work by the classical...

    £450

  20. 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