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. PURSEY, Thomas.

    The last General Assembly of the Free Church...

    [Edinburgh, T. Pursey, 1900.]

    A photographic tour-de-force, assembling...

    £2000

  2. [RAMEAUX, François-Alexis.]

    Edictum pro regis Hou-kuanensis adversus...

    [China], [1840–1] 道光卄年.

    A letter sent by the Department of Justice...

    £3500

  3. [RAMEAUX, François-Alexis.]

    Notice of the death of Rameaux issued by...

    [China, 1845.]

    A circular notifying the Christian community...

    £2000

  4. RHOADS, James Evans.

    Autograph letter signed (‘James E. Rhoads’)...

    Philadelphia, 22 July 1869.

    A letter from the first president of Bryn...

    £100

  5. RICCI, Giovanni, and Ercolano PORTA.

    Storia della missione francescana e del...

    Bologna, Stabilimenti tipografici riuniti,...

    First and only edition of this history...

    £750

  6. [RICHARDSON, Jonathan.]

    The general Address (in two Parts) of the...

    London, Printed by W. Nicol, late Bulmer...

    Rare first edition of a revised version...

    £1600

  7. 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

  8. ROMANA, Provost.

    Nell’aprirsi della nuova chiesa dalla...

    Mondovì, Pietro Francesco and Luiggi...

    Unrecorded provincially printed broadside...

    £275

  9. ROTH, Henry.

    Call it Sleep.

    London, Michael Joseph, 1963.

    First UK edition of Roth’s precocious...

    £250

  10. ROTHSCHILD, Boaz Raphael.

    [Sefer oniyah b’lev yam … Chelek rishon]....

    Fürth, Chaim ben Zvi Hirsch, 1766.

    First part of the first and only edition...

    £450

  11. ROUGEMONT, François de; [Sebastião de MAGALHÃES, translator].

    Relacam do estado politico e espiritual...

    Lisbon, Joao da Costa, 1672.

    First edition in any language of the Dutch...

    £2500

  12. [ROUSSEL DE LA TOUR, Claude Pierre GOUJET, and Abbé MINARD, editors.]

    Extraits des assertions dangereuses et...

    Paris, Pierre-Guillaume Simon, 1762.

    First edition of this systematic selection...

    £1500

  13. SABELLICO, Marco Antonio (or Marcantonio) Coccio; Petrus PONTANUS (or Du Pont, De Brugge).

    Sanctissime elegie de intemerata virgine...

    Paris, Jean de Gourmont, [c. 1513].

    One of only two recorded editions, both...

    £1400

  14. [SCOTT, Walter, Sir.]

    Ivanhoe; A Romance. By “The Author of...

    Edinburgh, [James Ballantyne & Co.] for...

    Stated second edition but in fact a third...

    £375

  15. [SERMONS.]

    [Sermones sensati.]

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

    First and only incunable edition of a rare...

    £8500

  16. SMITH, Henry.

    The Sinful Mans Search: or Seeking of God...

    London, [T. Scarlet for] Cuthbert Burby,...

    Second edition, rare, of The Sinful...

    £8500

  17. SPATARI, Pellegrino.

    Le orationi delle Messe di tutto l’anno,...

    Pesaro, Bartolomeo Cesano, 1555.

    Rare first edition of this Italian translation...

    £650

  18. STAPLETON, Thomas. 

    Promptuarium Catholicum ad instructionem...

    Antwerp, Pierre Beller, 1592. 

    Rare third edition, expanded, of Stapleton’s...

    £700

  19. STEPNIAK, Sergey. 

    דאָס אינטערערדישע רוסלאַנד...

    New York, Maks N. Maisel, 1921. 

    Scarce first American edition in Yiddish...

    £150

  20. SWIFT, Jonathan. 

    A Tale of a Tub … to which is added,...

    London, C. Bathurst, 1751. 

    A scarce later edition of Swift’s classic...

    £175