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. VORAGINE, Jacobus de.

    Lombardica historia que a plerisque aurea...

    Strasbourg, [Georg Husner,] 1502.

    Jacobus de Voragine’s influential Legenda...

    £8000

  2. VORAGINE, Jacobus de.

    Sermones quadragesimales [– de tempore...

    [(Colophons:) Venice, Simon de Luere for...

    An annotated copy of Jacobus de Voragine’s...

    £3250

  3. [WALLET.]

    Wallet with manuscript and printed waste.

    France, c. 1790.

    An attractive late eighteenth-century wallet...

    £950

  4. WEBER, Johann Adam.

    Discursus curiosi et fructuosi [ad praecipuas...

    [Salzburg, Johann Baptist Mayr, 1690.]

    Third Salzburg edition of Weber’s wide-ranging...

    £4750

  5. WICKSTEED, Edward.

    A New Week’s Preparation for a worthy...

    London, for Edward Wicksteed, 1739.

    ‘Second’ (in fact third) edition, rare,...

    £450

  6. WILLIAM OF TYRE; Giuseppe OROLOGGI, translator.

    Historia della guerra sacra di Gierusalemme,...

    Venice, Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1562.

    First Italian edition of William of Tyre’s...

    £2750

  7. WILSON, David (editor).

    A Collection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes, &c....

    [Edinburgh:] Sold by the Editor at his...

    Second(?), expanded edition of this collection...

    £500

  8. [WILSON,] Thomas, Bishop of Sodor and Man.

    A short and plain Instruction for the better...

    London, B. Dod, T. Longman & C. Hitch,...

    Scarce first posthumous edition of this...

    £250

  9. WITTKOWER, Jochanan.

    Agudath Perachim. ‘Blüthenstrauß’....

    Altona, the Bonn Brothers for the author, 1880.

    First and only edition of this anthology...

    £350

  10. [WOMEN’S CHARITY.]

    Régles et exercices spirituels a l’usage...

    [Besançon, c. 1728].

    Rare set of regulations and spiritual exercises...

    £850

  11. WOODCROFT, Bennet, editor; [J. G. GREENWOOD, translator].

    The Pneumatics of Hero of Alexandria. From...

    London, Charles Whittingham, 1851.

    First edition of this English translation...

    £300

  12. WORMALD, Francis; Jonathan ALEXANDER, editor.

    An Early Breton Gospel Book: A ninth-century...

    Cambridge, ‘Printed [at the University...

    First edition, dedicated and presented...

    £175

  13. XENOPHON; Antonmaria SALVINI, translator.

    Di Senofonte Efesio degli amori di Abrocome...

    London (i.e. Florence?), ‘presso gli...

    Second edition of this erotic work on the...

    £650

  14. ZAMPELIOS, Spiridion.

    Βυζαντιναι Μελεται [Byzantine...

    Athens, Christos Nikolaidos, 1857.

    First edition. Spyros Zampelios was a champion...

    £350

  15. ZANCHI, Basilio.

    Dictionarium poeticum, et epitheta veterum...

    Mons, Luca Rivius, 1612.

    Scarce Mons-printed edition of Zanchi’s...

    £375

  16. ZAND, Nathalie.

    [Drop-head title:] Les olives inférieures...

    [Paris, 31 December 1927.]

    Scarce offprint of a work on the inferior...

    £550

  17. ZAUNSLIFER, Petrus.

    Tafereel van overdeftige Zinnebeelden,...

    Amsterdam, Gerard Onder de Linden, 1722.

    First edition of this illustrated collection...

    £950

  18. ZENO of Verona, Saint. 

    In presenti opusculo infrascripta continentur. ...

    Venice, Giacomo Penzio for Benedetto Fontana,...

    Rare first edition of the sermons of Zeno...

    £1500

  19. ZOSIMUS. 

    Ιστοριας νεας βιβλοι...

    Oxford, Sheldonian Theatre, 1679. 

    First Oxford edition of this history of...

    £400

  20. ZOSIMUS.

    The New History of Count Zosimus, sometime...

    London, Joseph Hindmarsh, 1684.

    First edition of this anonymous translation...

    £950