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. DOD, John, attributed.

    A Sermon on Malt. [S.l., s.n., c. 1840].

    [c. 1840].

    A seemingly unrecorded printing of the...

    £875

  2. [DOMINICAN NUNS.]

    Regola e costituzioni delle suore di S....

    Rome, Bernardo Morini, 1853.

    Very rare first edition thus of the regulations...

    £250

  3. DOMINICUS DE FLANDRIA.

    Dominici de Flandria ordinis predicator[um]...

    Venice, Giorgio Arrivabene for the heirs...

    Scarce early editions of two Aristotelian...

    £3000

  4. [DOVES PRESS.] 

    Pervigilium Veneris. 

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

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

    £950

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. [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

  8. ECK, Johann.

    Enchiridion locorum communium adversus...

    Lyons, Guillaume Rouillé, 1572.

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

    £375

  9. [EDWARD VII – COMMON PRAYER.]

    [Cover title: ‘Prayer Book of...

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

    Authorised American edition of the Essex...

    £500

  10. [EMBROIDERED BINDING.]

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

    Liège, Everard Kints, [1753].

    A charming almanack for 1753 printed in...

    £400

  11. EPICTETUS.

    Το του Επικτητου εγχειριδιον....

    Glasgow, Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1751.

    The first miniature Foulis edition of Epictetus...

    £650

  12. ERASMUS, Desiderius.

    Desid. Erasmi Roterodami Colloquia nunc...

    Amsterdam, Jodocus Janssonius, 1644.

    Later edition of Erasmus’ highly influential...

    £125

  13. EUCLID.

    Στοιχειων βιβλ. ιε εκ...

    Basel, Johannes Herwagen, September 1533.

    Editio princeps of Euclid, the ‘oldest...

    £18000

  14. EUCLID; Jean MAGNIEN and Stephanus GRACILIS, editors.

    Euclidis elementorum libri XV Graece et...

    Paris, Guillaume Cavellat, 1557.

    First edition of Euclid’s Elements...

    £5500

  15. EUNAPIUS; Hadrianus JUNIUS, translator; Hieronymus COMMELIN, editor.

    Βιοι φιλοσοφων και σοφιστων...

    ‘Cologny’ [Geneva], Samuel Crespin, 1616.

    An uncommon edition of the twenty-four...

    £450

  16. EUSTRATIUS of Nicaea, et al.; ARISTOTLE.

    Ευστρατιου και αλλων...

    [(Colophon:) Venice, heirs of Aldus Manutius...

    Editio princeps of the Greek commentaries...

    £5500

  17. EUTROPIUS; Sextus AURELIUS VICTOR; Sextus Rufus [FESTUS]. 

    Historiae romanae breviarium, ad codices...

    Paris, brothers Barbou, 1793.

    First edition by Capperonnier of this collection...

    £275

  18. FARINGTON, Susan Maria (illustrator). 

    The 104th Psalm.  Illustrated by Susan...

    ...

    The Faringtons or Ffaringtons were an ancient...

    £650

  19. FERNÁNDEZ, Jerónimo.

    The Famous and delectable History of Don...

    London, Francis Kirkman, 1673, 1671, 1672.

    First complete edition of Francis Kirkman’s...

    £3750

  20. FERRAZZI, Marc’Antonio.

    Dissertationes criticae in linguam hebraicam …

    Padua, ‘Typis Seminarii’, 1691.

    Rare first edition of this philological...

    £600