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. CATHERINE of Siena.

    Dialogo della serafica vergine, et sposa...

    Venice, Giacomo Cornetti, 1589.

    An uncommon edition of Saint Catherine...

    £550

  2. CATTANI DA DIACCETO, Francesco. 

    Homelie … sopra la sequenza del corpo...

    Florence, Lorenzo Ducale, 1559.

    Uncommon first edition of a collection...

    £550

  3. CAVALCANTI, Bartolomeo.

    La retorica … divisa in sette libri,...

    Venice, Gabriel Giolitto, 1559.

    Second edition, published in the same year...

    £2250

  4. [CHAMPIER, Symphorien.]

    La vie & les gestes du preux Chevalier...

    [(Colophon:) Poitiers, Jacques Bouchet...

    An otherwise unrecorded late sixteenth-century...

    £8750

  5. [CHANTAL, Jeanne Françoise de.]

    Pratica divota per quattro venerdi’,...

    Naples, Domenico Roselli, 1756.

    An apparently unrecorded Naples edition...

    £375

  6. [CHARITY.]

    Costituzioni della Congregazione della...

    Parma, Stamperia Reale, [1778].

    Uncommon set of constitutions for the Congregazione...

    £300

  7. [CHARTONNET, Antoine-François.] 

    Considerations sur les devoirs des personnes...

    Paris, chez Edme Couterot, 1695. 

    Rare first edition of this religious manual...

    £275

  8. CHEKE, John, Sir, and Stephen [GARDINER], Bishop of Winchester.

    De pronuntiatione graecae potissimum linguae...

    Basel, Nikolaus Episcopius the younger, 1555.

    First edition of this collection of letters...

    £950

  9. CHEVALIER, André-Joseph, professor; A.J. BERENTS, compiler.

    ‘Tractatus De Fide, Spe et Charitate...

    [Douai, 9 March–4 August] 1787.

    A manuscript treatise concerning the three...

    £375

  10. [CHINA.]

    Business report written to a Mr Luo by...

    [China], 咸豐壬子年 [1852].

    An interesting mid-nineteenth-century report...

    £750

  11. [CHOISY, François Timoléon, Abbé de.]

    Journal ou suite de voyage de Siam. En...

    Amsterdam, Pierre Mortier, 1687.

    Amsterdam edition, issued the same year...

    £300

  12. [CHRISTIAN LIFE.]

    Idea della vera vita cristiana, ed immagine...

    Rome, Arcangelo Casaletti, 1788.

    A curious and extremely rare work on the...

    £375

  13. CHRYSOSTOM, John. 

    [Opera: Homeliae.]  Que in secundo Ioannis...

    Venice, Stagnino & de Gregoriis, 1503. 

    First edition of Chrysostom’s Opera...

    £2800

  14. CHRYSOSTOM, John.

    [Opera] Que in secondo volumine continentur...

    [Venice, Bernardino Stagnino and Gregorio...

    The second volume of the first collected...

    £2500

  15. CHRYSOSTOM, John.

    Opera …

    [(Colophon:) Venice, Bernardino Stagnino...

    The first collected edition of John Chrysostom’s...

    £3750

  16. [CHURCH OF ENGLAND.]

    The New Weeks Preparation for a worthy...

    London, printed from the edition of the...

    An attractive copy of two later editions...

    £250

  17. CICERO, Marcus Tullius.

    Orationum pars I. Cum correctionibus P. Manutii,...

    Venice, ‘ex bibliotheca Aldina’, 1570.

    An unusual example of a white calf German...

    £1850

  18. CICERO, Marcus Tullius.

    M. T. Ciceronis orationes Philippicae...

    Paris, Jean Loys, 1544.

    Extremely rare edition of Cicero’s Philippics...

    £2250

  19. CICERO, Marcus Tullius.

    De philosophia tomus primus.

    Lyon, Sébastien Gryphe, 1546.

    A small format Lyon edition of Cicero,...

    £300

  20. CICERO, Marcus Tullius.

    Orationes omnes: perpetuis notis logicis,...

    Frankfurt, ‘typis et impensis Joannis...

    An edition of Cicero’s speeches with...

    £450