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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. [DAMILLANO, Giovanni Francesco.]

    Racconto storico con nuove addizioni dello...

    Turin, nella stamperia reale, 1790.

    Much expanded second edition (first 1775)...

    £650

  3. [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

  4. DARRÉ, G.G.

    ‘Conferences diaconales données par...

    Auch, 1864.

    An attractively written manuscript of Abbé...

    £200

  5. DAVID, Jan.

    Paradisus sponsi et sponsae, in quo messis...

    Antwerp, Balthasar and Jan Moretus ‘ex...

    Second edition (first 1607) of an early...

    £850

  6. DECIO, Filippo.

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

    Lyon, Jean Liébault, 1567.

    Scarce posthumous edition of an exhaustive...

    £1750

  7. DELL’UVA, Benedetto.

    Le vergini prudenti.

    Florence, Bartolomeo Sermartelli, 1582.

    First editions of three religious poems...

    £650

  8. DE LUCA, Giovanni Battista. 

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

    Rome, nella stamperia della Reverenda...

    Scarce first edition of this thorough work...

    £300

  9. DENISSE, Nicolas.

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

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

    Rare edition of the Speculum mortalium...

    £1650

  10. [DEVOTION.]

    Meditation et preire du jeusne, seigneur...

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

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

    £850

  11. [DOMINICAN NUNS.]

    Regola e costituzioni delle suore di S....

    Rome, Bernardo Morini, 1853.

    Very rare first edition thus of the regulations...

    £250

  12. 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

  13. DU BARTAS, Guillaume de Salluste.

    Du Bartas his divine Weekes, and Workes...

    London, Robert Young, 1633.

    Second collected edition (first 1621),...

    £1750

  14. 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

  15. [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

  16. [DU ROSIER, Simon.]

    Antithesis Christi et Antichristi, videlicet...

    [Geneva], Eustache Vignon, 1578.

    First expanded edition of this satirical...

    £2500

  17. ECK, Johann.

    Enchiridion locorum communium adversus...

    Lyons, Guillaume Rouillé, 1572.

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

    £375

  18. [EDWARD VII – COMMON PRAYER.]

    [Cover title: ‘Prayer Book of...

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

    Authorised American edition of the Essex...

    £500

  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. [EUDISTS.]

    ‘Vive Jesus et Marie. Regles des freres...

    [Northwestern France, c. 1730].

    A most interesting manuscript detailing...

    £750