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. ANTIPHONAL,

    with neumes, containing antiphons, responses...

    Germany, 1st half of 12th century. 

    Two bifolia from a notably early antiphonal. 

    £5000

  2. [ANTIPHONAL.]

    Very large historiated initial ‘H’...

    Italy (Siena), c. 1300.

    A very fine large initial painted in a...

    £6750

  3. BOOK OF HOURS,

    in Latin, from the Hours of the Virgin...

    Flanders or northern France, early 14th...

    An exquisite leaf from an exceptionally...

    £1800

  4. [GRADUAL.]

    Vast historiated initial ‘A’ cut from...

    Italy (Umbria), end of thirteenth century.

    A spectacular initial on the scale of a...

    £20000

  5. [BREVIARY.]

    Sarum Breviary, in Latin.

    England, first quarter of fifteenth century.

    A fragment of twenty-one leaves from a...

    £4250

  6. [ANTIPHONAL.]

    Antiphonal, with neumes, containing music...

    Southern Germany or Bohemia, mid-fifteenth...

    An unusual and striking antiphonal leaf...

    £3500

  7. LACTANTIUS.

    Opera.

    [Venice,] Vindelinus de Spira, 1472.

    Magnificent incunable edition of the works...

    £25000

  8. JEROME, [Pseudo-]; [Thomas DORNIBERG, editor].

    Aureola ex suavissimis salutiferisque floribus...

    [Speyer, Printer of the ‘Gesta Christi’,...

    Second edition of this set of monastic...

    £5750

  9. AUGUSTINUS TRIUMPHUS [i.e. AUGUSTINUS de Ancona].  

    Summa de potestate ecclesiastica.

    Augsburg, [Johann Schüssler,] 6 March 1473.

    First edition of this highly important...

    £22500

  10. HERP, Hendrik.

    Speculum aureum decem praeceptorum Dei.

    [(Colophon:) Mainz, Peter Schoeffer, 10...

    First edition of this collection of sermons...

    £24000

  11. EUSEBIUS CAESARIENSIS; RUFINUS AQUILEIENSIS, translator.

    Historia ecclesiastica.

    Rome, Johannes Philippus de Lignamine,...

    The Syston Park copy of the earliest history...

    £4500

  12. PAULUS de Sancta Maria.

    Scrutinium scripturarum.

    [(Colophon:) Mainz, Peter Schoeffer, 7 January...

    Fifth edition (first Strasbourg, not after...

    £12500

  13. THOMAS of Cantimpré.

    Bonum universale de proprietatibus apum.

    [Cologne, Johann Koelhoff, the Elder,...

    Second edition of this manual of moral...

    £6000

  14. [INCUNABLE SAMMELBAND.]

    Sammelband of ten works.

    Rome, Stephan Plannck and Eucharius Silber,...

    A sammelband of ten Roman incunables, nine...

    £25000

  15. PFEFFER DE WYDENBERG, Johannes.

    [Directorium sacerdotale.]

    [Basel, Johann Besicken, after 20 December...

    First and only incunable edition, very...

    £6500

  16. [SERMONS.]

    [Sermones sensati.]

    [(Colophon:) Gouda, Gerard Leeu, 20 February...

    First and only incunable edition of a rare...

    £8500

  17. [BUTRIO, Antonius de, attributed; HUGH of Saint-Cher; Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo; DENIS the Carthusian.]

    [Speculum de confessione; Ars moriendi;...

    [(Colophon:) Louvain, Johannes de Westfalia,]...

    Rare third(?) edition, printed in Louvain,...

    £5750

  18. [LAURENTIUS, Frater; Jan van BREDERODE, translator.]

    [Summe le roy of des conincs summe].

    [(Colophon:) Haarlem, [Jacob Bellaert],...

    Rare early edition in Dutch (first Delft...

    £40000

  19. [PSALTER.] [BRUNO, Archbishop of Würzburg, editor.]

    Psalterium.

    [Würzburg, Georg Reyser, c. 1488–1489.]

    First edition of the Psalter with the commentary...

    £24000

  20. MEFFRET, Johann.

    Sermones Meffreth alias Ortulus regine...

    [Basel, Nicolaus Kesler, not after 1485.]

    A volume of sermons with early English...

    £6500