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. DE LUCA, Giovanni Battista. 

    Il Cardinale della S.R. Chiesa pratico...

    Rome, nella stamperia della Reverenda...

    Scarce first edition of this thorough work...

    £300

  2. DENISSE, Nicolas.

    Divinis humanisq[ue] dignu[m] conspectibus...

    Rouen, Martin Morin, 15 February 1506 [1507].

    Rare edition of the Speculum mortalium...

    £1650

  3. [DEVOTION.]

    Meditation et preire du jeusne, seigneur...

    Se vend à Charenton, par Pierre Auvray,...

    First edition, extremely rare, of a prayer...

    £850

  4. [DEVOTION.]

    Cy commence une petite instruction et maniere...

    [Paris, Guillaume Merlin, c. 1553.]

    A gathering of very rare three devotional...

    £7500

  5. DIODORUS Siculus.

    Bibliothecae historicae libri XV. Hoc est,...

    Basel, Heinrich Petri, August 1559.

    Important edition, the first to be overseen...

    £2500

  6. DIOGENES LAERTIUS; Henri ESTIENNE, editor.

    Περι βιων, δογματων και...

    [Geneva], Henri Estienne, 1570.

    First Estienne edition of The Lives...

    £850

  7. DIONYSIUS of Halicarnassus.

    Antiquitatum Rom. libri XI. Ab Aemylio...

    Geneva, Jacob Stoer, 1614.

    A rare pocket-sized edition of Dionysius...

    £450

  8. DOD, John, attributed.

    A Sermon on Malt. [S.l., s.n., c. 1840].

    [c. 1840].

    A seemingly unrecorded printing of the...

    £875

  9. [DOMINICAN NUNS.]

    Regola e costituzioni delle suore di S....

    Rome, Bernardo Morini, 1853.

    Very rare first edition thus of the regulations...

    £250

  10. DOMINICUS DE FLANDRIA.

    Dominici de Flandria ordinis predicator[um]...

    Venice, Giorgio Arrivabene for the heirs...

    Scarce early editions of two Aristotelian...

    £3000

  11. DONI, Anton Francesco.

    Mondi celesti, terrestri, et infernali,...

    Venice, Domenico Farri, 1567.

    A handsome copy of the second edition of...

    £850

  12. [DOVES PRESS.] 

    Pervigilium Veneris. 

    Hammersmith, ‘printed by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson...

    One of 150 copies on paper of the elusive...

    £950

  13. DRYDEN, John.

    Religio Laici or a Layman’s Faith. A Poem …

    London, Printed for Jacob Tonson … 1683.

    First edition, second issue (with a few...

    £400

  14. [DUQUESNE, Arnaud-Bernard d’Icard.]

    Vie de la vénérable mère Catherine de...

    Nancy, Claude-Sigisbert Lamort; Paris,...

    Uncommon biography of the French nun Mechtilde...

    £650

  15. ECK, Johann.

    Enchiridion locorum communium adversus...

    Lyons, Guillaume Rouillé, 1572.

    A rare pocket edition of Johann Eck’s...

    £375

  16. [EDWARD VII – COMMON PRAYER.]

    [Cover title: ‘Prayer Book of...

    [Norwood (MA), Plimpton Press for] New...

    Authorised American edition of the Essex...

    £500

  17. [EMBROIDERED BINDING.]

    Etrennes mignonnes, pour l’an de grace...

    Liège, Everard Kints, [1753].

    A charming almanack for 1753 printed in...

    £400

  18. EPICTETUS.

    Το του Επικτητου εγχειριδιον....

    Glasgow, Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1751.

    The first miniature Foulis edition of Epictetus...

    £650

  19. ERASMUS, Desiderius.

    Desid. Erasmi Roterodami Colloquia nunc...

    Amsterdam, Jodocus Janssonius, 1644.

    Later edition of Erasmus’ highly influential...

    £125

  20. EUCLID.

    Στοιχειων βιβλ. ιε εκ...

    Basel, Johannes Herwagen, September 1533.

    Editio princeps of Euclid, the ‘oldest...

    £18000