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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. GEREMIA, Pietro.

    Opus. Sermones in adventum Domini. Sermones...

    [(Colophons:) Brescia, Giacomo Britannico,...

    First edition of Geremia’s sermons, in...

    £2800

  2. GERHARD, Johann.

    Meditationes sacrae. Editio postrema, prioribus...

    Oxford, John Lichfield for Henry Curteyne,...

    First English-printed Latin edition of...

    £650

  3. GERSON, Johannes [Pseudo-].

    Donatus [moralisatus].

    [Nuremberg, Friedrich Creussner, c. 1475.]

    Early editions of two rare devotional tracts...

    £8500

  4. [GILBY, Anthony, translator.]

    The Testaments of the twelve Patriarches,...

    London, John Day, 1577.

    Fourth edition (first 1574), very rare,...

    £12500

  5. GOBINET, Charles. 

    Instruction sur la vérité du Saint Sacrement,...

    Paris, François le Cointe, 1677. 

    Scarce first edition thus, containing an...

    £650

  6. GOODWIN, Thomas.

    Romanae Historiae Anthologia … An English...

    Oxford, Leonard Lichfield for Henry Cripps,...

    Early editions of these two popular schoolbooks...

    £1600

  7. GOODWIN, Thomas.

    Romanae Historiae Anthologia … An English...

    London, R.W. for Peter Parker, 1661.

    A wholly unsophisticated Restoration sammelband...

    £850

  8. [GOSPELS.] Charles HURÉ, translator.

    Le nouveau testament de notre-seigneur...

    Paris, L. Roulland, 1712.

    An attractive early Jansenist binding,...

    £950

  9. [GRADUAL.]

    Vast historiated initial ‘A’ cut from...

    Italy (Umbria), end of thirteenth century.

    A spectacular initial on the scale of a...

    £20000

  10. GRAILE, John.

    Three Sermons preached at the Cathedral...

    London, W. Kettilby, 1685.

    First and only edition, rare. The third...

    £850

  11. [GREY SISTERS OF ST ELIZABETH.]

    ‘Kloosten den grouwe Zusters in den ouden...

    [Bruges?, c. 1835.]

    A large and detailed bird’s-eye-view...

    £850

  12. [GUASCO, Francesco Eugenio.]

    Lettera del primicerio di Mondorbopoli...

    ‘In Mondorbopoli’ [Alessandria?], 1788.

    Rare first edition of this anti-Jansenist...

    £275

  13. [GUIDO DE MONTE ROCHEN.]

    Manipulus curatorum.

    [(Colophon:) London, Richard Pynson, 1508.]

    Very rare Pynson edition of the Manipulus...

    £14000

  14. [GUIDO DE MONTE ROCHEN.]

    Manipulus curatorum.

    [(Colophon:) London, Wynkyn de Worde,...

    First Wynkyn de Worde edition of this immensely...

    £17500

  15. GUILLON, Pierre.

    Danti voci suae vocem virtutis. Quaestio...

    Poitiers, Jean-Felix Faulcon, [1770].

    An apparently unrecorded broadside giving...

    £275

  16. [GULIELMUS de Lavicea.]

    Dieta salutis. Sancti Bonaventure doctoris...

    [(Colophon:) Venice, Cesare Arrivabene,...

    A compilation of Franciscan devotional...

    £1250

  17. HEBER, Reginald, and Nicolas BARKER (editor).

    A Letter from India.

    The Roxburghe Club, 2020.

    'I do not expect that with fair prospects...

    £100

  18. HIERONYMUS de Villa Vitis.

    Panis quotidianus de tempore [– de sanctis...

    [(Colophon:) Hagenau, Heinrich Gran for...

    First edition, bound and handsomely rubricated...

    £5000

  19. HOFFMEISTER, Johann.

    Loci communes rerum theologicarum, quae...

    [(Colophon:) Ingolstadt, Alexander Weissenhorn,...

    First edition. In the dedication to the...

    £500

  20. [HOLY SCAPULAR.]

    Instruction pour ceux et celles qui portent...

    Le Mans, ‘chez Madame V.e Dureau’,...

    A seemingly unrecorded broadside addressed...

    £350