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. MAGGI, Lorenzo. 

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

    Venice, Francesco Rampazetto, 1567.

    Very rare first edition of this collection...

    £500

  2. MAGNON, Jean. 

    Les heures du Chrestien, divisées en trois...

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

    First edition of this handsomely illustrated...

    £650

  3. MAILLARD, Olivier.

    Sermones de sanctis reverendi patris fratris...

    Cologne, Cornelius von Zierickzee, 30...

    Very rare edition of a collection of sermons...

    £1500

  4. [MARABOTTA, Cattaneo.] 

    Vita della serafica S. Caterina da Genova. 

    Genoa, Tipografia Frugoni, 1832. 

    Rare first edition thus, an attractive...

    £185

  5. [MARIAN DEVOTION.]

    Embroidered silk panel depicting the Virgin...

    [Netherlands, early eighteenth century?]

    A delightful silk panel, embroidered over...

    £600

  6. MARKISH, Peretz Davidovich.

    Rubezh. Izbrannye stikhi [Threshold....

    [Selected poems]. Moscow, Goslitizdat, 1933.

    First edition in Russian of the first book...

    £1800

  7. MARLIANI, Bartolomeo.

    Urbis Romae topographia.

    Rome, Valerio & Luigi Dorico, September 1544.

    First illustrated edition (third overall),...

    £5500

  8. MARMONTEL, Jean-François.

    Contes moraux ...

    Paris, J. Merlin, 1765.

    Expanded edition, with a new suite of illustrations...

    £1650

  9. MARSILIUS of Inghen, GILES of Rome, and ALBERT of Saxony.

    Marsilii de genera[tione et corruptione]....

    [(Colophon:) Venice, [Boneto Locatello...

    A trio of late thirteenth- and fourteenth-century...

    £1500

  10. MARTIAL.

    Epigrammaton libri XIII. Ex fide vetustissimorum...

    Paris, Jean Libert, 1612 [(colophon:) 1613].

    An uncommon small-format edition of Martial’s...

    £650

  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 this...

    £300

  13. [MASSES FOR THE DEAD.]

    Missae pro defunctis seu privatim, sive...

    Paris, François Coustelier, (colophon:)...

    A seemingly unrecorded Requiem Missal printed...

    £950

  14. MAUGIN, Jean.

    Histoire du noble Tristan, prince de Leonnois,...

    Paris, Nicolas Bonfons, 1586.

    A scarce edition of the New Tristan,...

    £4750

  15. MAURIZI, Maria Luisa.

    Morali e divote riflessioni a tutti utilissime...

    Rome, Tipografia della Pia Unione alle...

    Uncommon first edition of this collection...

    £150

  16. MAXIMUS OF TYRE.

    Μαξιμου Τυριου φιλοσοφου...

    [Geneva,] Henri II Estienne, 1557.

    Editio princeps of the forty-one...

    £1500

  17. MAXIMUS the Confessor; Jean PICOT, translator.

    Sanctissimi patris magistrique, Maximi,...

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

    First edition of Jean Picot’s Latin translation...

    £850

  18. MEFFRET, Johann.

    Sermones Meffreth alias Ortulus regine...

    [Basel, Nicolaus Kesler, not after 1485.]

    A volume of sermons with early English...

    £6500

  19. MELECRINIS, Maria Teresa. 

    Le voci del cuore a Maria Teresa Melecrinis...

    Naples, stamperia dell' Iride, 1846. 

    Very rare collection of odes and sonnets...

    £175

  20. MERCURIALE, Girolamo. 

    De arte gymnastica libri sex, in quibus...

    Venice, [Lucantonio II] Giunta, 1587. 

    Third edition of ‘the first illustrated...

    £2750