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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[ALMANACK.]
Calendarium Tyrnaviense ad annum Jesu Chris[ti]...
[Tyrnau (Trnava), 1731.]
A remarkable almanack binding of part-printed,...
£1850
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[ALMANACK.]
L’Esprit des chansonniers, extrain [sic?]...
Paris, Le Fuel, [1826?].
A very rare enamelled metal binding...
£2750
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[ALMANACK.]
Les etrennes a la rose, ou le rosier d’amour.
Paris, Janet, [1804?].
A charming literary almanack, or ‘rosebush...
£2500
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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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BIBLE.
Biblia cum concordantiis veteris et novi...
[(Colophon:) Lyons, Jean Marion, for Anton...
A handsomely printed Bible in a contemporary...
£5500
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[BIBLE.]
The Holy Bible, containing the Old and...
Oxford, T. Wright and W. Gill, 1769.
First quarto edition of the Oxford ‘standard’...
£5250
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[CATECHISM.]
Catechismus, das ist Christliche Erklärung...
[Strasbourg,] Johann Heinrich Heitz, 1751.
Seemingly unrecorded editions of two...
£450
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CHALMERS, David.
Histoire abbregee de tous les roys de France,...
Paris, Jean Fevrier, 1579.
First edition of Chalmer’s historical...
£950
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[CRIMEAN WAR.]
Les militaires chrétiens a la guerre d’orient....
Versailles, Beau jeune, [1856].
First and only edition, rare, of this...
£375
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CUJAS, Jacques.
Iacobi Cuiacii celeberrimi I. C. recitationes...
Speyer, Bernhard Albin, 1594.
First edition of these commentaries...
£750
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DIONYSIUS of Halicarnassus.
Antiquitatum Rom. libri XI. Ab Aemylio...
Geneva, Jacob Stoer, 1614.
A rare pocket-sized edition of Dionysius...
£450
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[EMBROIDERED BINDING.]
Etrennes mignonnes, pour l’an de grace...
Liège, Everard Kints, [1753].
A charming almanack for 1753 printed...
£400
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[GORIZIA.]
Directorium liturgicum sanctae metropolitanae...
Gorizia, [Antonio] Paternolli, [1845].
Two very rare annual publications relating...
£175
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GRUEL, Léon, and ENGELMANN, Godefroy.
Petites heures.
Paris, Gruel-Engelmann, [(colophon:) 1875].
First edition of this chromolithographic...
£950
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HAMILTON, ‘Eliza’ [Elizabeth].
Translation of the Letters of a Hindoo...
London, J. Crowder for G. & J. Robinson, 1801.
Second edition of Hamilton’s first...
£575
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HOSSCHIUS, Sidronius.
Sidronii Hosschii e Societate Iesu elegiarum...
Antwerp, Balthasar Moretus ‘ex officina...
First collected edition of the neo-Latin...
£600
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HURTADO, Eugenio, scribe.
[Missal for feast days.]
Madrid, 1827.
An extraordinary and enormous liturgical...
£9500
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LEVEY, Michael.
The later Italian Pictures in the Collection...
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Revised second edition of Levey’s...
£475
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LUCAN.
Pharsalia cum annotationibus in margine...
Antwerp, Michael Hillenius, 1528.
An uncommon edition of Lucan’s poem...
£2500
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MEFFRET, Johann.
Sermones Meffreth alias Ortulus regine...
[Basel, Nicolaus Kesler, not after 1485.]
A volume of sermons with early English...
£6500