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. [THOMAS À KEMPIS.]

    Messer Giovanni Gerson. Utile & divota...

    Florence, Piero Pacini da Pescia, 16 April...

    Scarce edition of an anonymous Italian...

    £4000

  2. THOMAS À KEMPIS.

    De imitatione Christi libri quatuor.

    ‘Leiden’ [Amsterdam], Elzevir, 1658.

    Second Elzevir edition of Thomas à Kempis’s...

    £675

  3. [THOMAS à Kempis.]

    Ioanni Gerson vulgare devota operetta della...

    Florence, Antonio Miscomini, 22 July 1493.

    Uncommon editions of two classic Latin...

    £5750

  4. THOMAS À KEMPIS; Johann Michael SAILER, translator.

    Das Buch von der Nachfolgung Christi …...

    Munich, Ignaz Joseph Lentner, and Leipzig,...

    Uncommon ‘second edition’ of Thomas...

    £250

  5. THOMAS AQUINAS; Antonius PIZAMANUS, editor.

    Opuscula [with a life of St Thomas].

    Venice, Hermannus Liechtenstein, 7 September...

    First collected edition of seventy-one...

    £3750

  6. THOMAS of Cantimpré.

    Bonum universale de proprietatibus apum.

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

    Second edition of this manual of moral...

    £6000

  7. [THUMB BIBLE.]

    The Bible in Miniature, or a concise History...

    London, J. Harris, 1778.

    A very rare thumb bible, the last Harris...

    £1500

  8. TOMPSON, John, editor.

    English Miscellanies consisting of various...

    Gottingen by Abram. Vandenhoeck, Printer...

    Second edition, revised, of John Tompson’s...

    £300

  9. TRIMMER, [Sarah], Mrs.

    An Explanation of the Office for the public...

    London, printed for T. Longman, and G. G. J. and...

    First edition, dedicated with the Queen’s...

    £650

  10. TUCKER, Josiah.

    Betydande frågor om handelen, wid tilfålle...

    [v. Oelreich], 1763.

    First Swedish edition, scarce, of this...

    £200

  11. 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

  12. VALLISNERI, Alberto Maria. 

    Lettioni venti sopra gli alti, et ineffabili...

    Milan, Giovanni Battista da Ponte & fratelli,...

    Very rare first edition of a collection...

    £500

  13. VORAGINE, Jacobus de.

    Sermones quadragesimales [– de tempore...

    [(Colophons:) Venice, Simon de Luere for...

    An annotated copy of Jacobus de Voragine’s...

    £3250

  14. WEBER, Johann Adam.

    Discursus curiosi et fructuosi [ad praecipuas...

    [Salzburg, Johann Baptist Mayr, 1690.]

    Third Salzburg edition of Weber’s wide-ranging...

    £6000

  15. WILSON, David (editor).

    A Collection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes, &c....

    [Edinburgh:] Sold by the Editor at his...

    Second(?), expanded edition of this collection...

    £500

  16. [WILSON,] Thomas, Bishop of Sodor and Man.

    A short and plain Instruction for the better...

    London, B. Dod, T. Longman & C. Hitch,...

    Scarce first posthumous edition of this...

    £250

  17. WITTKOWER, Jochanan.

    Agudath Perachim. ‘Blüthenstrauß’....

    Altona, the Bonn Brothers for the author, 1880.

    First and only edition of this anthology...

    £350

  18. WORMALD, Francis; Jonathan ALEXANDER, editor.

    An Early Breton Gospel Book: A ninth-century...

    Cambridge, ‘Printed [at the University...

    First edition, dedicated and presented...

    £175

  19. ZAND, Nathalie.

    [Drop-head title:] Les olives inférieures...

    [Paris, 31 December 1927.]

    Scarce offprint of a work on the inferior...

    £550

  20. ZENO of Verona, Saint

    In presenti opusculo infrascripta continentur. ...

    Venice, Giacomo Penzio for Benedetto Fontana,...

    Rare first edition of the sermons of Zeno...

    £1500