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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. [COLVIL, Samuel.]

    ‘Mock Poem, or Whiggs Supplication Part ii’.

    1670s?

    A fine contemporary manuscript of the second...

    £1250

  2. [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

  3. [COMMON PRAYER.]

    The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration...

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

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

    £275

  4. CORTÈS, Gioacchino. 

    Dissertazione anti-Bolgeniana sopra la...

    Rome, Salomoni, 1793. 

    First edition of this response to and attempted...

    £450

  5. COSTER, François. 

    Piarum et Christ. institutionum libri...

    Douai, Jean Bogard, 1582. 

    Very rare Douai edition of this devotional...

    £675

  6. CYPRIAN.

    D. Caecilii Cypriani episcopi Carthaginiensis,...

    Paris, Guillaume Des Bois, 1564.

    An attractive edition of the works of Cyprian...

    £975

  7. CYPRIAN, Saint; Desiderius ERASMUS, editor.

    Opera [– Alter tomus operum].

    Lyons, Sébastien Gryphe, 1550.

    A richly annotated copy of the works of...

    £1800

  8. [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

  9. DARRÉ, G.G.

    ‘Conferences diaconales données par...

    Auch, 1864.

    An attractively written manuscript of Abbé...

    £200

  10. DELL’UVA, Benedetto.

    Le vergini prudenti.

    Florence, Bartolomeo Sermartelli, 1582.

    First editions of three religious poems...

    £650

  11. DE LUCA, Giovanni Battista. 

    Il Cardinale della S.R. Chiesa pratico...

    Rome, nella stamperia della Reverenda...

    Scarce first edition of this thorough work...

    £300

  12. DENISSE, Nicolas.

    Divinis humanisq[ue] dignu[m] conspectibus...

    Rouen, Martin Morin, 15 February 1506 [1507].

    Rare edition of the Speculum mortalium...

    £1650

  13. [DEVOTION.]

    Meditation et preire du jeusne, seigneur...

    Se vend à Charenton, par Pierre Auvray,...

    First edition, extremely rare, of a prayer...

    £850

  14. [DEVOTION.]

    Cy commence une petite instruction et maniere...

    [Paris, Guillaume Merlin, c. 1553.]

    A gathering of very rare three devotional...

    £7500

  15. DOD, John, attributed.

    A Sermon on Malt. [S.l., s.n., c. 1840].

    [c. 1840].

    A seemingly unrecorded printing of the...

    £875

  16. [DOMINICAN NUNS.]

    Regola e costituzioni delle suore di S....

    Rome, Bernardo Morini, 1853.

    Very rare first edition thus of the regulations...

    £250

  17. DOMINICUS DE FLANDRIA.

    Dominici de Flandria ordinis predicator[um]...

    Venice, Giorgio Arrivabene for the heirs...

    Scarce early editions of two Aristotelian...

    £3000

  18. DONI, Anton Francesco.

    Mondi celesti, terrestri, et infernali,...

    Venice, Domenico Farri, 1567.

    A handsome copy of the second edition of...

    £850

  19. DRYDEN, John.

    Religio Laici or a Layman’s Faith. A Poem …

    London, Printed for Jacob Tonson … 1683.

    First edition, second issue (with a few...

    £400

  20. [DUQUESNE, Arnaud-Bernard d’Icard.]

    Vie de la vénérable mère Catherine de...

    Nancy, Claude-Sigisbert Lamort; Paris,...

    Uncommon biography of the French nun Mechtilde...

    £650