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.
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[ARCHCONFRATERNITY OF SAN GIOVANNI DECOLLATO.]
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Rome, second half of eighteenth century.
An unusual woodcut – likely intended...
£500
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ARIAS, Francisco.
Paleys der deughden begrypende de naervolghinghe...
Antwerp, Gheleyn Janssens, 1609.
First Dutch edition of this work of Marian...
£375
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ARISTIDES, Aelius.
Orationum tomi tres, nunc primum latine...
Basel, Peter Perna and Heinrich Petrus, 1566.
First edition in Latin, a remarkable copy...
£2750
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ARISTOPHANES.
The Frogs, a Comedy. Translated from the...
Oxford, J. and J. Fletcher; London,...
First edition in English, and the only...
£500
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ARISTOPHANES, and Henry Francis CARY, translator.
The Birds … with Notes.
London, Printed for Taylor and Hessey …...
First edition of the first metrical translation...
£350
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ARISTOTLE.
Αριστοτελους περι ποιητικης:...
Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1780.
Large-paper issue of the first Winstanley...
£675
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ARISTOTLE; THEOPHRASTUS; Theodorus GAZA and Pietro ALCIONIO, translators.
Historiae. Cum de natura Animalium, tum...
Lyons, [Nicolas Bacquenois for] Guillaume...
A union of Aristotle on animals and Theophrastus...
£800
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ARNIGIO, Bartolomeo.
Rime dell’Arnigio per la ill[ustre] signora...
Brescia, Giovanni Battista Bozzola, 1566.
First edition of Bartolomeo Arnigio’s...
£1750
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AUGUSTINE, Pseudo-, et al.
Opusculum multarum bonaru[m] rerum refertum,...
Venice, Pietro Quarengi, 6 March 1512.
Uncommon edition of various devotional...
£750
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AUGUSTINUS TRIUMPHUS [i.e. AUGUSTINUS de Ancona].
Summa de potestate ecclesiastica.
Augsburg, [Johann Schüssler,] 6 March 1473.
First edition of this highly important...
£22500
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BACON, Francis.
Historia vitae et mortis.
Amsterdam, Johannes van Ravesteyn, 1663.
Pocket-sized Amsterdam editions of three...
£975
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BACON, Francis.
Opuscula varia posthuma, philosophica,...
London, R. Daniel, impensis Octaviani...
First edition, second issue of this collection...
£1250
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BARTHOLOMEW OF PISA.
Sermo[n]es lucidissimi et insignes dubiorum...
Lyon, Romain Morin, 3 February 1519.
Rare edition of forty-five sermons for...
£2250
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BARTOLI, Adolfo.
Scenari inediti della Commedia dell’arte....
Florence, Sansoni, 1880.
Rare first edition, one of only 350 copies,...
£500
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[BASKERVILLE PRESS.]
The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration...
Third and final edition of Baskerville’s...
£1200
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BEAUMONT, Joseph.
Psyche: or Loves Mysterie in XX. Canto’s:...
London, Printed by John Dawson for George...
First edition of this lengthy religious...
£1250
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BEAUVILLIERS, Marie de.
Conférences spirituelles d’une supérieure...
Paris, Moquet et Cie for Toulouse, 1838.
Scarce second edition (first 1837, also...
£400
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BEDFORDSHIRE – ARLESEY.
Charter of William Hoye of Arlesey (‘Auricheseya’)...
Bedfordshire, 1st half of 13th century.
Witnessed by Roger Burnard, William Rixpaud,...
£1400
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BELLARMINO, Roberto.
De scriptoribus ecclesiasticis liber unus....
Paris, Sébastien Cramoisy, 1658.
An uncut copy of Bellarmino’s bibliography...
£1250
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BELLINTANI, Mattia.
Quattro prediche dell’istesso R. P. F. Mattia...
Brescia, Vincenzo Sabbio, 1598.
Very rare collection of sermons by the...
£750