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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[INDULGENCE.]
Letter of Indulgence (in Catalan),...
[Lerida, Heinrich Botel, c. 1498.]
Extremely rare incunable indulgence in...
£34000
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ABBEVILLE, Claude d’.
Histoire de la mission des peres Capucins...
Paris, François Huby, 1614.
Second edition, enlarged and revised from...
£30000
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LACTANTIUS.
Opera.
[Venice,] Vindelinus de Spira, 1472.
Magnificent incunable edition of the works...
£25000
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AUGUSTINUS TRIUMPHUS [i.e. AUGUSTINUS de Ancona].
Summa de potestate ecclesiastica.
Augsburg, [Johann Schüssler,] 6 March 1473.
First edition of this highly important...
£22500
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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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[CANONS REGULAR OF THE LATERAN.]
Regula et constitutiones Canonicorum Regularium...
Rome, apud Paulum Bladum, 1592.
The most complete edition, rare, of the...
£18500
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HURTADO, Eugenio, scribe.
[Missal for feast days.]
Madrid, 1827.
An extraordinary and enormous liturgical...
£9500
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ANTONIUS de Vercellis.
Sermones quadragesimales de XII mirabilibus...
Venice, Johannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis,...
A remarkable copy of the first edition...
£8500
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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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[ANTIPHONAL.]
Very large historiated initial ‘H’...
Italy (Siena), c. 1300.
A very fine large initial painted in a...
£6750
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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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WEBER, Johann Adam.
Discursus curiosi et fructuosi [ad praecipuas...
[Salzburg, Johann Baptist Mayr, 1690.]
Third Salzburg edition of Weber’s wide-ranging...
£6000
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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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ANTIPHONAL,
with neumes, containing antiphons, responses...
Germany, 1st half of 12th century.
Two bifolia from a notably early antiphonal.
£5000
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CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA (Titus Flavius CLEMENS); Gentian HERVET, translator.
Omnia opera.
Paris, Sebastien Nivelle, 1572.
A thoroughly annotated copy of this early...
£4750
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NAVARRETE, Domingo Fernández.
Tratados historicos, politicos, ethicos,...
Madrid, Juan Garcia Infançon for Florian...
Scarce first edition, one of the most important...
£4750
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[BOUCHET, Jean.]
Les triu[m]phes de la noble et amoureuse...
Paris, Estienne Caveiller for Pierre Sergent,...
Unrecorded issue of Jean Bouchet’s contemplative...
£4500
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EUSEBIUS CAESARIENSIS; RUFINUS AQUILEIENSIS, translator.
Historia ecclesiastica.
Rome, Johannes Philippus de Lignamine,...
The Syston Park copy of the earliest history...
£4500
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RICH, Jeremiah.
The Whole Book of Psalms in Meter. According...
London, ‘Printed and are sold by Samuel...
First edition, the issue with Samuel Botley...
£4250
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[BREVIARY.]
Sarum Breviary, in Latin.
England, first quarter of fifteenth century.
A fragment of twenty-one leaves from a...
£4250