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.]
London Almanack for the Year of Christ 1820.
[London,] Printed for the Company of Stationers,...
An extraordinary binding of silver filigree...
£2750
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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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[ALMANACK.]
Étrennes mignonnes, curieuses et utiles,...
Paris, Guillot, 1790.
A French almanack for 1790 in a delightful...
£2750
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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 sacra vulgatae editionis … [with:]...
Paris, Jacques Vincent, 1741/1740.
An attractively bound copy of the Old...
£975
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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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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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[HYMNAL.]
Neu-vermehrt- und vollständiges Gesang-Buch,...
[Likely Swabia, for] Philadelphia, Ernst...
First and only edition thus of this...
£3500
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LIVY; [Pedro DE LA VEGA, translator].
Todas las decadas de Tito Livio paduano,...
[(Colophon:) Cologne [i.e. Antwerp?],...
A handsome copy of Livy’s History...
£3500
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MÄNDL, Kaspar.
Christliche Sitten-Lehr und heylsame Anmuthungen...
Augsburg, Matthias Wolff, 1737.
A superb example of Rococo decorative...
£6750
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[MINIATURE BOOKS.]
‘Hebdomadaire, ou bibliotheque secrete’.
France, c. 1800.
A charming miniature diary in seven...
£2750
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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
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NIXON, Howard M.
Broxbourne Library: Styles and Designs...
London, Maggs Brothers for the Broxbourne...
First edition, one of three hundred...
£875
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PAPINI, Roberto.
Le Arti d’Oggi: Architettura e Arti Decorative...
Milan and Rome, Bestetti and Tumminelli, 1930.
First edition of a thorough and extensively...
£300
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PORTA, Giambattista della.
De humana physiognomonia … libri IIII;...
Hanau, Wilhelm Antonius for [Frankfurt,]...
The second Latin edition and the first...
£2500
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[PSALMS.]
Les Pseaumes de David, mis en Vers François,...
Amsterdam, ‘aux dépens de l’Eglise...
New edition of the metrical Psalms of...
£950
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RICCI, Giovanni and PORTA, Ercolano.
Storia della missione francescana e del...
Bologna, Stabilimenti tipografici riuniti,...
First and only edition of this history...
£450