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.
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DOD, John, attributed.
A Sermon on Malt. [S.l., s.n., c. 1840].
[c. 1840].
A seemingly unrecorded printing of the...
£875
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[MISSIONARIES.]
Shopping list of Christian texts, signed...
[China, c. 1850.]
A shopping list of Chinese Christian texts...
£1500
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[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
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HERP, Hendrik.
Speculum aureum decem praeceptorum Dei.
[(Colophon:) Mainz, Peter Schoeffer, 10...
First edition of this collection of sermons...
£24000
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RICCI, Giovanni, and Ercolano PORTA.
Storia della missione francescana e del...
Bologna, Stabilimenti tipografici riuniti,...
First and only edition of this history...
£750
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AUGUSTINUS TRIUMPHUS [i.e. AUGUSTINUS de Ancona].
Summa de potestate ecclesiastica.
Augsburg, [Johann Schüssler,] 6 March 1473.
First edition of this highly important...
£22500
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SWIFT, Jonathan.
A Tale of a Tub … to which is added,...
London, C. Bathurst, 1751.
A scarce later edition of Swift’s classic...
£175
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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
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MOUSSON, Pierre.
Tragoediae seu diversarum gentium et imperiorum...
La Flèche, George Griveau, 1621.
First edition, provincially-printed, of...
£725
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NAVARRETE, Domingo Fernández.
Tratados historicos, politicos, ethicos,...
Madrid, Juan Garcia Infançon for Florian...
Scarce first edition, one of the most important...
£3750
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NAVARRETE, Domingo Fernández.
Tratados historicos, politicos, ethicos,...
Madrid, Juan Garcia Infançon for Florian...
Scarce first edition, one of the most important...
£4750
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[JESUITS.]
The Travels of several learned Missioners...
London, for R. Gosling, 1714.
First English translation of twenty-two...
£1250
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PACIFICUS, Sacerdos.
Two letters signed regarding religious...
[?Hong Kong, 1846.]
Two interesting letters referring to paintings...
£1100
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[GRADUAL.]
Vast historiated initial ‘A’ cut from...
Italy (Umbria), end of thirteenth century.
A spectacular initial on the scale of a...
£20000
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[ANTIPHONAL.]
Very large historiated initial ‘H’...
Italy (Siena), c. 1300.
A very fine large initial painted in a...
£6750
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[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
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BURNET, Gilbert.
A Vindication of the Authority, Constitution,...
Glasgow, Robert Sanders, 1673.
One of three editions, all of the same...
£500
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[MARABOTTA, Cattaneo.]
Vita della serafica S. Caterina da Genova.
Genoa, Tipografia Frugoni, 1832.
Rare first edition thus, an attractive...
£185
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TO THE PARLIAMENT OF ENGLAND,
who are in Place to do Justice, and to...
London, Printed for Thomas Simmons …, 1659.
First edition, rare, a list of Quaker victims...
£300
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[PSALMS.]
The whole Booke of Psalmes, collected into...
London, printed by T. C[otes] for the...
A very attractive pocket psalm book with...
£2750