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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[PSALTER.] Justinus DECADYUS, editor.
Ψαλτηριον.
Venice, Aldus Manutius, [not after 1 October...
The elegant first Aldine printing of the...
£45000
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PURSEY, Thomas.
The last General Assembly of the Free Church...
[Edinburgh, T. Pursey, 1900.]
A photographic tour-de-force, assembling...
£2000
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[RAMEAUX, François-Alexis.]
Edictum pro regis Hou-kuanensis adversus...
[China], [1840–1] 道光卄年.
A letter sent by the Department of Justice...
£3500
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[RAMEAUX, François-Alexis.]
Notice of the death of Rameaux issued by...
[China, 1845.]
A circular notifying the Christian community...
£2000
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RHOADS, James Evans.
Autograph letter signed (‘James E. Rhoads’)...
Philadelphia, 22 July 1869.
A letter from the first president of Bryn...
£100
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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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[RICHARDSON, Jonathan.]
The general Address (in two Parts) of the...
London, Printed by W. Nicol, late Bulmer...
Rare first edition of a revised version...
£1600
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RICH, Jeremiah.
The Whole Book of Psalms in Meter. According...
London, ‘Printed and are sold by Samuel...
First edition, the issue with Samuel Botley...
£4250
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ROMANA, Provost.
Nell’aprirsi della nuova chiesa dalla...
Mondovì, Pietro Francesco and Luiggi...
Unrecorded provincially printed broadside...
£275
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ROTH, Henry.
Call it Sleep.
London, Michael Joseph, 1963.
First UK edition of Roth’s precocious...
£250
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ROTHSCHILD, Boaz Raphael.
[Sefer oniyah b’lev yam … Chelek rishon]....
Fürth, Chaim ben Zvi Hirsch, 1766.
First part of the first and only edition...
£450
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ROUGEMONT, François de; [Sebastião de MAGALHÃES, translator].
Relacam do estado politico e espiritual...
Lisbon, Joao da Costa, 1672.
First edition in any language of the Dutch...
£2500
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[ROUSSEL DE LA TOUR, Claude Pierre GOUJET, and Abbé MINARD, editors.]
Extraits des assertions dangereuses et...
Paris, Pierre-Guillaume Simon, 1762.
First edition of this systematic selection...
£1500
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SABELLICO, Marco Antonio; Peter DE BRUGGE.
Sanctissime elegie de intemerata virgine...
Paris, Jean de Gourmont, [c. 1513].
One of only two recorded editions, both...
£1400
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SAUBERT, Johann.
Miracula Augustanae Confessionis, [engraved...
[Nuremberg,] Wolffgang Endter, 1631.
First editions of three works of Lutheran...
£2850
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[SAVOY-CARIGNAN, Maria Vittoria Francesca, Princess of.]
Recueil de prières et de pratiques très...
[Paris, Imprimerie Royale], 1735.
First and only edition of this rare prayerbook,...
£2500
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SCALVO, Bartolomeo.
Rosariae preces ad gloriosam Dei genitricem...
Milan, Pacificus Pontius, 1569.
First edition of this Marian book of prayers...
£3500
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[SCOTT, Walter, Sir.]
Ivanhoe; A Romance. By “The Author of...
Edinburgh, [James Ballantyne & Co.] for...
Stated second edition but in fact a third...
£375
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[SERMONS.]
[Sermones sensati.]
[(Colophon:) Gouda, Gerard Leeu, 20 February...
First and only incunable edition of a rare...
£8500
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SIBILLA, Bartolomeo.
Speculum peregrinarum quaestionum … Tres...
[(Colophon:) Lyon, Jacques Myt, 9 August 1521.]
Second Lyon edition of Sibilla’s popular...
£1500