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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LUDOLPH of Saxony.
Vita Christi.
Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 20 December 1478.
Early incunable edition of Ludolph of Saxony’s...
£45000
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[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
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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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[INCUNABLE SAMMELBAND.]
Sammelband of ten works.
Rome, Stephan Plannck and Eucharius Silber,...
A sammelband of ten Roman incunables, nine...
£25000
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HERP, Hendrik.
Speculum aureum decem praeceptorum Dei.
[(Colophon:) Mainz, Peter Schoeffer, 10...
First edition of this collection of sermons...
£24000
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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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[JEROME, Saint.]
Obitus beati iheromini.
[Delft, Jacob Jacobszoon van der Meer,...
Rare incunable edition (first printed in...
£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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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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[SERMONS.]
[Sermones sensati.]
[(Colophon:) Gouda, Gerard Leeu, 20 February...
First and only incunable edition of a rare...
£8500
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[BIBLE – OLD TESTAMENT and APOCRYPHA, Greek; Johann LONITZER, editor.]
Της θειας γραφης παλαιας...
Strasbourg, Wolfgang Köpfel, 1526.
The first edition of the Old Testament...
£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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[DEVOTION.]
Cy commence une petite instruction et maniere...
[Paris, Guillaume Merlin, c. 1553.]
A gathering of very rare three devotional...
£7500
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HURTADO, Eugenio, scribe.
[Missal for feast days.]
Madrid, 1827.
An extraordinary and enormous liturgical...
£7500
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[BONIOHANNES de Messana, attributed.]
Speculum sapiencie beati Cirilli episcopi...
[Basel, Michael Wenssler, c. 1475.]
An attractive early incunable edition of...
£7250
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CARACCIOLO, Roberto.
Sermones de laudibus sanctoru[m] fratris...
[Reutlingen, Michael Greyff, not after 1492.]
Rare edition of this collection of seventy...
£7000
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[ANTIPHONAL.]
Very large historiated initial ‘H’...
Italy (Siena), c. 1300.
A very fine large initial painted in a...
£6750