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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MEFFRET, Johann.
Sermones Meffreth alias Ortulus regine...
[Basel, Nicolaus Kesler, not after 1485.]
A volume of sermons with early English...
£6500
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LUCAN.
Pharsalia cum annotationibus in margine...
Antwerp, Michael Hillenius, 1528.
An uncommon edition of Lucan’s poem on...
£2500
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[PSALMS.]
Psalmi Davidis regis et vatis inclyti,...
Antwerp, [(colophon:) Jan Verwithagen...
A collection of verse paraphrases of the...
£975
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[PRIMER.]
Preces privatae, in studiosorum gratia[m]...
London, William Seres, 1568.
Second edition of this rare ‘private’...
£4250
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THEOCRITUS et al.
Theocriti aliorumque poetarum Idyllia....
[Geneva], Henri Estienne, 1579.
An outstanding volume uniting the Estienne...
£9000
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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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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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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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PRIOR, Matthew.
Poems on several Occasions.
London, printed for Jacob Tonson and John...
First edition, a subscriber’s copy on...
£5000
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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 the...
£950
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[WALLPAPER BINDING.]
‘Chassereau des Biens et Rentes deves...
Hainaut, 1750–1773.
A manuscript account book compiled by Joseph...
£3500
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[EMBROIDERED BINDING.]
Etrennes mignonnes, pour l’an de grace...
Liège, Everard Kints, [1753].
A charming almanack for 1753 printed in...
£400
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[WALLET.]
Wallet with manuscript and printed waste.
France, c. 1790.
An attractive late eighteenth-century wallet...
£950
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[OXFORD UNIVERSITY.]
Pietas Universitatis Oxoniensis in obitum...
Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1761.
First edition, one of fifty copies on large...
£10000
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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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ZACHARIÄ, Just Friedrich Wilhelm.
Les quatre parties du jour, poëme traduit...
Paris, J. B. G. Musier fils, 1769.
First edition in French of this proto-Romantic...
£1500
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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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[ALMANACK.]
Étrennes mignones [sic], curieuses et...
Paris, Claude-Jacques-Charles [Durand]...
A very rare Parisian almanack for 1775,...
£1500
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[ALMANACK.]
London Almanack for the Year of Christ 1785.
[London,] Printed for the Company of Stationers,...
A very attractive miniature London Almanack...
£950
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[ALMANACK.]
étrennes mignones [sic], curieuses...
Paris, [Jean-François-Hubert] Guillot, 1790.
Very rare almanack for 1790, in a handsome...
£1950