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. [POPE, Alexander.]

    The Dunciad. An heroic Poem. In three Books....

    ‘Dublin, Printed; London, Re-printed...

    Second edition, rare, and of considerable...

    £4500

  2. PORTA, Giambattista della.

    De humana physiognomonia … libri IIII;...

    Hanau, Wilhelm Antonius for [Frankfurt,]...

    The second Latin edition and the first...

    £2500

  3. [PRAYERBOOK.]

    ‘Gebetbuch’.

    [Germany, early nineteenth century.]

    An attractive early nineteenth-century...

    £185

  4. [PRAYERS.] 

    ‘Orationes diversae pro temporum opportunitate...

    [Likely Lucca, late eighteenth century.] 

    A delightful manuscript prayerbook for...

    £475

  5. [PRAYERS.] 

    Récueil de plusieurs prieres.   

    Vienna, ‘chez Georg Müllner libraire...

    Very rare and charming early nineteenth-century...

    £450

  6. [PRAYERS.]

    The New-Years-Gift, complete: in six Parts....

    London, Henry Mortlock, 1700.

    Unrecorded edition of a very popular collection...

    £1200

  7. [PRAYERS.]

    Solidae devotionis epitome in nucleo orationum...

    Vienna, typis Joannis Georgii Schlegel, [1704].

    An apparently unrecorded short manual of...

    £650

  8. PRESENT FOR THE YOUNG (A).

    London: Printed for The Religious Tract...

    [c. 1827]

    First edition. A finely illustrated anthology...

    £175

  9. [PRIMER.]

    Preces privatae, in studiosorum gratia[m]...

    London, William Seres, 1568.

    Second edition of this rare ‘private’...

    £4250

  10. PRIOR, Matthew.

    Poems on several Occasions.

    London, printed for Jacob Tonson and John...

    First edition, a subscriber’s copy on...

    £5000

  11. [PROCESSIONAL.]

    [Processionarium monasticum secundum consuetudinem...

    [Coimbra, António de Mariz, 1571.]

    An extremely rare Processional of Benedictine...

    £1250

  12. [PSALMS.]

    Les Pseaumes de David, mis en Vers François,...

    Amsterdam, ‘aux dépens de l’Eglise...

    New edition of the metrical Psalms of the...

    £950

  13. [PSALMS.]

    Psalterium Davidis carmine redditum per...

    Paris, [(colophon:) Guillaume Morel for]...

    Seemingly unrecorded issue of the Psalms...

    £1250

  14. [PSALMS.]

    Les Pseaumes de David, mis en rime Françoise,...

    ‘Se vendent à Charenton, par Antoine...

    Charenton-printed French Psalms in a remarkable...

    £2750

  15. [PSALMS.]

    Psalmi Davidis regis et vatis inclyti,...

    Antwerp, [(colophon:) Jan Verwithagen...

    A collection of verse paraphrases of the...

    £975

  16. [PSALMS.]

    The whole Booke of Psalmes, collected into...

    London, printed by T. C[otes] for the...

    A very attractive pocket psalm book with...

    £2750

  17. [PSALMS; Basil WOODD, editor.]

    The Psalms of David, and other Portions...

    London, Watts & Bridgewaters, Rivingtons,...

    A pocket-sized Psalm- and prayerbook with...

    £2000

  18. [PSALTER.] [BRUNO, Archbishop of Würzburg, editor.]

    Psalterium.

    [Würzburg, Georg Reyser, c. 1488–1489.]

    First edition of the Psalter with the commentary...

    £24000

  19. [PSALTER.] Justinus DECADYUS, editor.

    Ψαλτηριον.

    Venice, Aldus Manutius, [not after 1 October...

    The elegant first Aldine printing of the...

    £45000

  20. PURSEY, Thomas.

    The last General Assembly of the Free Church...

    [Edinburgh, T. Pursey, 1900.]

    A photographic tour-de-force, assembling...

    £2000