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. [CHARTONNET, Antoine-François.] 

    Considerations sur les devoirs des personnes...

    Paris, chez Edme Couterot, 1695. 

    Rare first edition of this religious manual...

    £275

  2. 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

  3. [CHINA.]

    Business report written to a Mr Luo by...

    [China], 咸豐壬子年 [1852].

    An interesting mid-nineteenth-century report...

    £750

  4. [CHOISY, François Timoléon, Abbé de.]

    Journal ou suite de voyage de Siam. En...

    Amsterdam, Pierre Mortier, 1687.

    Amsterdam edition, issued the same year...

    £300

  5. CHRYSOSTOM, John. 

    [Opera: Homeliae.]  Que in secundo Ioannis...

    Venice, Stagnino & de Gregoriis, 1503. 

    First edition of Chrysostom’s Opera...

    £2800

  6. CHRYSOSTOM, John.

    [Opera] Que in secondo volumine continentur...

    [Venice, Bernardino Stagnino and Gregorio...

    The second volume of the first collected...

    £2500

  7. CHRYSOSTOM, John.

    Opera …

    [(Colophon:) Venice, Bernardino Stagnino...

    The first collected edition of John Chrysostom’s...

    £3750

  8. [CHURCH OF ENGLAND.]

    The New Weeks Preparation for a worthy...

    London, printed from the edition of the...

    An attractive copy of two later editions...

    £250

  9. CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA (Titus Flavius CLEMENS); Gentian HERVET, translator.

    Omnia opera.

    Paris, Sebastien Nivelle, 1572.

    A thoroughly annotated copy of this early...

    £4750

  10. CLEMENT VII.

    Tröstliche vermanung Bapst Clements des...

    [Augsburg, Alexander Weissenhorn,] 1532.

    First and only edition of this German translation...

    £1500

  11. [COLVIL, Samuel.]

    ‘Mock Poem, or Whiggs Supplication Part ii’.

    1670s?

    A fine contemporary manuscript of the second...

    £1250

  12. [COMMON PRAYER.] 

    The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration...

    London, Millar Ritchie for J. Good and...

    A splendid copy of the Good and Harding...

    £1850

  13. [COMMON PRAYER.]

    The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration...

    London & Glasgow, Collins’ Clear-Type...

    A George V Common Prayer and hymnal, uniformly...

    £275

  14. [CONGREGATION OF RITES.]

    Sacra Rituum congregatione … Card. Otthobono...

    Rome, Tipografia della Reverenda Camera...

    A seemingly unrecorded volume supporting...

    £1750

  15. [CONGREGAZIONE DELL’ORATORIO DI ROMA.]

    Sammelband of fourteen libretti.

    Rome, 1765–1768.

    A sammelband of rare devotional libretti...

    £1750

  16. CORTÈS, Gioacchino. 

    Dissertazione anti-Bolgeniana sopra la...

    Rome, Salomoni, 1793. 

    First edition of this response to and attempted...

    £450

  17. COSTER, François. 

    Piarum et Christ. institutionum libri...

    Douai, Jean Bogard, 1582. 

    Very rare Douai edition of this devotional...

    £675

  18. CYPRIAN.

    D. Caecilii Cypriani episcopi Carthaginiensis,...

    Paris, Guillaume Des Bois, 1564.

    An attractive edition of the works of Cyprian...

    £975

  19. CYPRIAN, Saint; Desiderius ERASMUS, editor.

    Opera [– Alter tomus operum].

    Lyons, Sébastien Gryphe, 1550.

    A richly annotated copy of the works of...

    £1800

  20. [DAMPMARTIN, Pierre de; Charles SOREL, editor.]

    La fortune de la cour. Ouvrage curieux...

    Paris, Nicolas de Sercy, 1642.

    Rare second edition, revised and expanded...

    £500