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. DECIO, Filippo.

    Philippi Decii Mediolanens. I. C. clarissimi...

    Lyon, Jean Liébault, 1567.

    Scarce posthumous edition of an exhaustive...

    £1750

  2. DELL’UVA, Benedetto.

    Le vergini prudenti.

    Florence, Bartolomeo Sermartelli, 1582.

    First editions of three religious poems...

    £650

  3. DE LUCA, Giovanni Battista. 

    Il Cardinale della S.R. Chiesa pratico...

    Rome, nella stamperia della Reverenda...

    Scarce first edition of this thorough work...

    £300

  4. DENISSE, Nicolas.

    Divinis humanisq[ue] dignu[m] conspectibus...

    Rouen, Martin Morin, 15 February 1506 [1507].

    Rare edition of the Speculum mortalium...

    £1650

  5. [DEVOTION.]

    Meditation et preire du jeusne, seigneur...

    Se vend à Charenton, par Pierre Auvray,...

    First edition, extremely rare, of a prayer...

    £850

  6. DIODORUS Siculus.

    Bibliothecae historicae libri XV. Hoc est,...

    Basel, Heinrich Petri, August 1559.

    Important edition, the first to be overseen...

    £2500

  7. DIOGENES LAERTIUS; Henri ESTIENNE, editor.

    Περι βιων, δογματων και...

    [Geneva], Henri Estienne, 1570.

    First Estienne edition of The Lives...

    £850

  8. [DOMINICAN NUNS.]

    Regola e costituzioni delle suore di S....

    Rome, Bernardo Morini, 1853.

    Very rare first edition thus of the regulations...

    £250

  9. [DOVES PRESS.] 

    Pervigilium Veneris. 

    Hammersmith, ‘printed by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson...

    One of 150 copies on paper of the elusive...

    £950

  10. DRYDEN, John.

    Religio Laici or a Layman’s Faith. A Poem …

    London, Printed for Jacob Tonson … 1683.

    First edition, second issue (with a few...

    £400

  11. DU BARTAS, Guillaume de Salluste.

    Du Bartas his divine Weekes, and Workes...

    London, Robert Young, 1633.

    Second collected edition (first 1621),...

    £1750

  12. DU BOURGET DE CHAULIEU, Nicolas.

    Nicolai Burgetii Cadomaei ex regia litteratorum...

    Caen, Guillaume Richard Poisson, [c. 1700].

    Rare Caen edition of the Latin and French...

    £375

  13. [DUQUESNE, Arnaud-Bernard d’Icard.]

    Vie de la vénérable mère Catherine de...

    Nancy, Claude-Sigisbert Lamort; Paris,...

    Uncommon biography of the French nun Mechtilde...

    £650

  14. [DU ROSIER, Simon.]

    Antithesis Christi et Antichristi, videlicet...

    [Geneva], Eustache Vignon, 1578.

    First expanded edition of this satirical...

    £2500

  15. ECK, Johann.

    Enchiridion locorum communium adversus...

    Lyons, Guillaume Rouillé, 1572.

    A rare pocket edition of Johann Eck’s...

    £375

  16. [EDWARD VII – COMMON PRAYER.]

    [Cover title: ‘Prayer Book of...

    [Norwood (MA), Plimpton Press for] New...

    Authorised American edition of the Essex...

    £500

  17. [EMBROIDERED BINDING.]

    Etrennes mignonnes, pour l’an de grace...

    Liège, Everard Kints, [1753].

    A charming almanack for 1753 printed in...

    £400

  18. EPICTETUS.

    Το του Επικτητου εγχειριδιον....

    Glasgow, Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1751.

    The first miniature Foulis edition of Epictetus...

    £650

  19. EPIPHANIUS, Pseudo-; Gonzalo PONCE DE LEÓN, editor and translator.

    Εις τον φυσιολογον. Του...

    Antwerp, Christophe Plantin, 1588.

    Second edition, with finely engraved illustrations...

    £675

  20. ERASMUS, Desiderius.

    Desid. Erasmi Roterodami Colloquia nunc...

    Amsterdam, Jodocus Janssonius, 1644.

    Later edition of Erasmus’ highly influential...

    £125