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. CYPRIAN, Saint; Desiderius ERASMUS, editor.

    Opera [– Alter tomus operum].

    Lyons, Sébastien Gryphe, 1550.

    A richly annotated copy of the works of...

    £1800

  2. [DAMPMARTIN, Pierre de; Charles SOREL, editor.]

    La fortune de la cour. Ouvrage curieux...

    Paris, Nicolas de Sercy, 1642.

    Rare second edition, revised and expanded...

    £500

  3. DARRÉ, G.G.

    ‘Conferences diaconales données par...

    Auch, 1864.

    An attractively written manuscript of Abbé...

    £200

  4. DE LUCA, Giovanni Battista. 

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

    Rome, nella stamperia della Reverenda...

    Scarce first edition of this thorough work...

    £300

  5. DENISSE, Nicolas.

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

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

    Rare edition of the Speculum mortalium...

    £1650

  6. [DEVOTION.]

    Meditation et preire du jeusne, seigneur...

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

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

    £850

  7. [DEVOTION.]

    Cy commence une petite instruction et maniere...

    [Paris, Guillaume Merlin, c. 1553.]

    A gathering of very rare three devotional...

    £7500

  8. DOD, John, attributed.

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

    [c. 1840].

    A seemingly unrecorded printing of the...

    £875

  9. [DOMINICAN NUNS.]

    Regola e costituzioni delle suore di S....

    Rome, Bernardo Morini, 1853.

    Very rare first edition thus of the regulations...

    £250

  10. DOMINICUS DE FLANDRIA.

    Dominici de Flandria ordinis predicator[um]...

    Venice, Giorgio Arrivabene for the heirs...

    Scarce early editions of two Aristotelian...

    £3000

  11. 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

  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. ECK, Johann.

    Enchiridion locorum communium adversus...

    Lyons, Guillaume Rouillé, 1572.

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

    £375

  15. [EDWARD VII – COMMON PRAYER.]

    [Cover title: ‘Prayer Book of...

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

    Authorised American edition of the Essex...

    £500

  16. FARINGTON, Susan Maria (illustrator). 

    The 104th Psalm.  Illustrated by Susan...

    ...

    The Faringtons or Ffaringtons were an ancient...

    £650

  17. FERRAZZI, Marc’Antonio.

    Dissertationes criticae in linguam hebraicam …

    Padua, ‘Typis Seminarii’, 1691.

    Rare first edition of this philological...

    £600

  18. FERRER, Vincent, Saint.

    Sermones … de tempore pars hiemalis [– de...

    Strasbourg, [Printer of the 1483 Jordanus...

    A substantial volume of sermons by the...

    £4500

  19. FIAMMA, Gabriele. 

    Prediche del reverendo don Gabriel Fiamma,...

    Venice, Francesco Senese, 1570.

    Scarce third edition of this collection...

    £400

  20. FORD, Simon.

    The Restoring of fallen Brethren: containing...

    London, Printed for Henry Mortlock … 1697.

    First edition, the last published work...

    £275