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. LIPPOMANO, Luigi. 

    Espositioni volgare del reveren. M. Luigi...

    Venice, Girolamo Scoto, 1541.

    First edition of this treatise on the Credo,...

    £450

  2. [LITURGY.] Girolamo GIOVANNINI, editor.

    Officium hebdomadae sanctae, juxta formam...

    Venice, ‘ex typographia Balleoniana’, 1742.

    Very rare small-format edition of the...

    £275

  3. LUDOPHUS of Saxony. 

    In Psal. David, diligentiss. Simul, &...

    [Lyons,] A. Vincent, [1542]. 

    Uncommon and significant edition of...

    £2000

  4. MAGGI, Lorenzo. 

    I sacri hinni, che si leggono in tutto...

    Venice, Francesco Rampazetto, 1567.

    Very rare first edition of this collection...

    £500

  5. MAGNON, Jean. 

    Les heures du Chrestien, divisées en trois...

    Paris, se vendent chez l’autheur …...

    First edition of this handsomely illustrated...

    £650

  6. MANCINI, Celso. 

    Il padrino Christiano … per formare i...

    Ferrara, Vittorio Baldini, 1592. 

    Rare first edition of a meditational...

    £950

  7. [MAPS.]

    ‘Carte du Vicariat Apost. de Péking...

    [China], 1896.

    Two handsome maps providing a snapshot...

    £1800

  8. [MARABOTTA, Cattaneo.] 

    Vita della serafica S. Caterina da Genova. 

    Genoa, Tipografia Frugoni, 1832. 

    Rare first edition thus, an attractive...

    £185

  9. [MARIAN DEVOTION.]

    Embroidered silk panel depicting the Virgin...

    [Netherlands, early eighteenth century?]

    A delightful silk panel, embroidered...

    £600

  10. MARKISH, Peretz Davidovich.

    Rubezh. Izbrannye stikhi [Threshold....

    [Selected poems]. Moscow, Goslitizdat, 1933.

    First edition in Russian of the first...

    £1800

  11. [MASCHERANA, Girolamo.]

    Concordia tra la società e la religione...

    Milan, Cesare Orena nella stamperia Malatesta,...

    Rare second edition, printed in the same...

    £375

  12. [MASS.]

    Cerimonie piu’ notabili della messa privata;...

    Turin, Gianfranco Mairesse, 1739.

    An apparently unrecorded edition of...

    £300

  13. MAURIZI, Maria Luisa.

    Morali e divote riflessioni a tutti utilissime...

    Rome, Tipografia della Pia Unione alle...

    Uncommon first edition of this collection...

    £150

  14. MAXIMUS the Confessor; Jean PICOT, translator.

    Sanctissimi patris magistrique, Maximi,...

    [(Colophon:) Paris,] Guillaume Morel, [1560].

    First edition of Jean Picot’s Latin...

    £850

  15. MEFFRET, Johann.

    Sermones Meffreth alias Ortulus regine...

    [Basel, Nicolaus Kesler, not after 1485.]

    A volume of sermons with early English...

    £6500

  16. MELECRINIS, Maria Teresa. 

    Le voci del cuore a Maria Teresa Melecrinis...

    Naples, stamperia dell' Iride, 1846. 

    Very rare collection of odes and sonnets...

    £175

  17. [MILAN, province of.]

    Ordo admittendi virgines ad monasterii...

    Milan, Tamburini and Valdoni, 1843.

    Scarce edition of this set of rites...

    £200

  18. MILNER, Joseph.

    Practical Sermons, by the late Rev. Joseph...

    York: Printed by G. Peacock; and sold...

    First edition, rare, collecting 21 sermons...

    £175

  19. [MISSAL.]

    Ordinaire de la Messe.

    [Paris?, c. 1890–1900].

    A lithographed and elegantly hand-coloured...

    £350

  20. [MISSIONARIES.]

    Shopping list of Christian texts, signed...

    [China, c. 1850.]

    A shopping list of Chinese Christian...

    £1500