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. BURNET, Gilbert.

    A Vindication of the Authority, Constitution,...

    Glasgow, Robert Sanders, 1673.

    One of three editions, all of the same...

    £500

  2. BUXTORF, Johannes.

    Epitome grammaticae Hebraeae, breviter...

    London, Roger Daniel, 1653.

    Second edition (first Cambridge, 1646)...

    £650

  3. CADOGAN, William Bromley.

    The Felicity of God’s Children, considered...

    Reading: Printed and Sold by Smart and...

    First edition, a funeral sermon by the...

    £75

  4. CALLINI, Bartolommeo.

    Arrolandosi sotto le insegne di Gesù Cristo...

    Vicenza, Tipografia Paroni, 1802.

    A seemingly unrecorded sonnet celebrating...

    £350

  5. CALMET, Antoine Augustin.

    Commentaire litteral sur tous les livres...

    Paris, Pierre Emery, 1712.

    First edition of the commentary on the...

    £450

  6. [CAMBOUT, Sébastien Joseph du; John EVELYN, attributed translator].

    The moral Practice of the Jesuites. Demonstrated...

    London, Printed for Simon Miller, at the...

    First edition in English of La morale...

    £700

  7. [CANONS REGULAR OF THE LATERAN.]

    Regula et constitutiones Canonicorum Regularium...

    Rome, apud Paulum Bladum, 1592. 

    The most complete edition, rare, of the...

    £18500

  8. [CAPUCHINS.]

    Diploma conferring ‘privilegium maximum’.

    ‘Bojonii’, 22 October 1779.

    An attractive diploma issued by Erhard...

    £450

  9. CARLI, Paolo Francesco da Montecarlo.

    La Svinatura di Barbigi Mezzabarba (Paol...

    Campobasso, Stab. Tip. Del Progresso, 1878.

    Rare edition of a satire by poet and abbot...

    £150

  10. [CARTHUSIANS. GUIGO DE CASTRO, compiler.]

    Repertorium statutoru[m] ordinis cartusiensis...

    Basel, Johann Amerbach, 1510.

    First printed edition of the Statutes of...

    £7500

  11. CASAL, Gaspar do.

    Axiomata christiana ex divinis scripturis...

    Coimbra, João da Barreira and João Alvares,...

    First edition of Gaspar do Casal’s major...

    £2500

  12. [CATECHISM.]

    Fundamentum eterne felicitatis omnibus...

    [(Colophon:) Cologne, [Retro minores (Martin...

    Very rare first edition of this small-format...

    £5000

  13. CATHERINE of Siena.

    Dialogo della serafica vergine, et sposa...

    Venice, Giacomo Cornetti, 1589.

    An uncommon edition of Saint Catherine...

    £550

  14. CATTANI DA DIACCETO, Francesco. 

    Homelie … sopra la sequenza del corpo...

    Florence, Lorenzo Ducale, 1559.

    Uncommon first edition of a collection...

    £550

  15. [CHARITY.]

    Costituzioni della Congregazione della...

    Parma, Stamperia Reale, [1778].

    Uncommon set of constitutions for the Congregazione...

    £300

  16. [CHARLES II.]

    RIVET, Jean. ‘Le favory du Ciel ou Meditation...

    [Caussade en Quercy, 1664.]

    A fascinating manuscript meditation on...

    £1850

  17. [CHARTONNET, Antoine-François.] 

    Considerations sur les devoirs des personnes...

    Paris, chez Edme Couterot, 1695. 

    Rare first edition of this religious manual...

    £275

  18. CHEVALIER, André-Joseph, professor; A.J. BERENTS, compiler.

    ‘Tractatus De Fide, Spe et Charitate...

    [Douai, 9 March–4 August] 1787.

    A manuscript treatise concerning the three...

    £375

  19. [CHINA.]

    Précis des nouvelles reçues des missions...

    [Paris, Adrien Le Clere, 1819?].

    An extremely rare summary of the state...

    £180

  20. [CHINA.]

    Business report written to a Mr Luo by...

    [China], 咸豐壬子年 [1852].

    An interesting mid-nineteenth-century report...

    £750