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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BEDFORDSHIRE – ARLESEY.
Charter of William Hoye of Arlesey (‘Auricheseya’)...
Bedfordshire, 1st half of 13th century.
Witnessed by Roger Burnard, William Rixpaud,...
£1400
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[GRADUAL.]
Vast historiated initial ‘A’ cut from...
Italy (Umbria), end of thirteenth century.
A spectacular initial on the scale of a...
£20000
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JOHN OF FREIBURG.
Summa confessorum [and] Tractatus de instructione...
France, mid-fourteenth century.
From a large and well-decorated manuscript...
£1500
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[HOSPICE SAINT-NICOLAS, METZ.]
Deed granting land to the hospice.
Metz, 5 May 1464.
A significant document recording the grant...
£450
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BALBUS, Johannes.
Catholicon.
[Strasbourg, The R-Printer (Adolf Rusch),...
Third edition of the earliest printed lexicon,...
£65000
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THOMAS of Cantimpré.
Bonum universale de proprietatibus apum.
[Cologne, Johann Koelhoff, the Elder,...
Second edition of this manual of moral...
£6000
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THOMAS AQUINAS; Antonius PIZAMANUS, editor.
Opuscula [with a life of St Thomas].
Venice, Hermannus Liechtenstein, 7 September...
First collected edition of seventy-one...
£3750
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VORAGINE, Jacobus de.
Sermones quadragesimales [– de tempore...
[(Colophons:) Venice, Simon de Luere for...
An annotated copy of Jacobus de Voragine’s...
£3250
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[INDULGENCE.]
Letter of Indulgence (in Catalan),...
[Lerida, Heinrich Botel, c. 1498.]
Extremely rare incunable indulgence in...
£34000
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VORAGINE, Jacobus de.
Lombardica historia que a plerisque aurea...
Strasbourg, [Georg Husner,] 1502.
Jacobus de Voragine’s influential Legenda...
£8000
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[CARTHUSIANS. GUIGO DE CASTRO, compiler.]
Repertorium statutoru[m] ordinis cartusiensis...
Basel, Johann Amerbach, 1510.
First printed edition of the Statutes of...
£7500
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MARSILIUS of Inghen, GILES of Rome, and ALBERT of Saxony.
Marsilii de genera[tione et corruptione]....
[(Colophon:) Venice, [Boneto Locatello...
A trio of late thirteenth- and fourteenth-century...
£1500
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GIACOMO da Milano.
Stimulus divini amoris Sancti Bonaventurae.
Venice, Stefano Nicolini da Sabbio, April 1535.
Rare edition of the Stimulus divini...
£550
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TYRE, William, Archbishop of, and Giuseppe OROLOGGI (translator).
Historia della guerra sacra di Gierusalemme,...
Venice, Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1562.
First Italian edition of William of Tyre’s...
£2800
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THOMAS À KEMPIS.
De imitatione Christi libri quatuor.
‘Leiden’ [Amsterdam], Elzevir, 1658.
Second Elzevir edition of Thomas à Kempis’s...
£675