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. CLAUDIANUS, Claudius.

    Claudii Claudiani Alexandrini, poetae illustriss. quotquot...

    Paris, Simon de Colines, 1530.

    First Colines edition of the major works...

    £850

  2. CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA (Titus Flavius CLEMENS); Gentian HERVET, translator.

    Omnia opera.

    Paris, Sebastien Nivelle, 1572.

    A thoroughly annotated copy of this early...

    £4750

  3. CLEMENT VII.

    Tröstliche vermanung Bapst Clements des...

    [Augsburg, Alexander Weissenhorn,] 1532.

    First and only edition of this German translation...

    £1500

  4. [COMMON PRAYER.] 

    The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration...

    London, Millar Ritchie for J. Good and...

    A splendid copy of the Good and Harding...

    £1850

  5. [CONFRATERNITY OF AGONIZANTS.]

    Exercice de dévotion, pour les personnes...

    Robert’, [c. 1758–1779].

    Very rare devotional manual for members...

    £650

  6. [CONGREGAZIONE DELL’ORATORIO DI ROMA.]

    Sammelband of fourteen libretti.

    Rome, 1765–1768.

    A sammelband of rare devotional libretti...

    £1750

  7. CONTI, Natale.

    Mythologiae, sive explicationis fabularum,...

    Frankfurt, the heirs of Andreas Wechel, 1584.

    Scarce Frankfurt edition of the Mythologiae...

    £750

  8. CORTÈS, Gioacchino. 

    Dissertazione anti-Bolgeniana sopra la...

    Rome, Salomoni, 1793. 

    First edition of this response to and attempted...

    £450

  9. COSTER, François. 

    Piarum et Christ. institutionum libri...

    Douai, Jean Bogard, 1582. 

    Very rare Douai edition of this devotional...

    £675

  10. [CRIMEAN WAR.]

    Les militaires chrétiens a la guerre d’orient....

    Versailles, Beau jeune, [1856].

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

    £375

  11. CUJAS, Jacques.

    Iacobi Cuiacii celeberrimi I. C. recitationes...

    Speyer, Bernhard Albin, 1594.

    First edition of these commentaries on...

    £750

  12. CURTIUS RUFUS, Quintus.

    De rebus gestis Alexandri Magni regis Macedonum...

    Basel, Hieronymus Froben and Nicolaus...

    Handsome folio edition of Curtius Rufus’...

    £2000

  13. CURTIUS RUFUS, Quintus.

    De rebus gestis Alexandri Magni. Editio...

    Toulouse, Pierre Robert, [1714–1760].

    A rare Toulouse printing of a rhetorical...

    £275

  14. CYPRIAN.

    D. Caecilii Cypriani episcopi Carthaginiensis,...

    Paris, Guillaume Des Bois, 1564.

    An attractive edition of the works of Cyprian...

    £975

  15. CYPRIAN, Saint; Desiderius ERASMUS, editor.

    Opera [– Alter tomus operum].

    Lyons, Sébastien Gryphe, 1550.

    A richly annotated copy of the works of...

    £1800

  16. [DAMILLANO, Giovanni Francesco.]

    Racconto storico con nuove addizioni dello...

    Turin, nella stamperia reale, 1790.

    Much expanded second edition (first 1775)...

    £650

  17. [DAMPMARTIN, Pierre de; Charles SOREL, editor.]

    La fortune de la cour. Ouvrage curieux...

    Paris, Nicolas de Sercy, 1642.

    Rare second edition, revised and expanded...

    £500

  18. DARRÉ, G.G.

    ‘Conferences diaconales données par...

    Auch, 1864.

    An attractively written manuscript of Abbé...

    £200

  19. DAVID, Jan.

    Paradisus sponsi et sponsae, in quo messis...

    Antwerp, Balthasar and Jan Moretus ‘ex...

    Second edition (first 1607) of an early...

    £850

  20. DECIO, Filippo.

    Philippi Decii Mediolanens. I. C. clarissimi...

    Lyon, Jean Liébault, 1567.

    Scarce posthumous edition of an exhaustive...

    £1750