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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FREUD, Sigmund.
Moses and monotheism [translated from the...
New York, Alfred A, Knopf, 1939.
First American edition of the last lifetime...
£80
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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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KELLER, Martialis.
Neueröffnete Himmels-Schule, in welcher...
Augsburg, Matthäus Riegers, 1793.
Rare later edition of this educational...
£500
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ANTIPHONAL,
with neumes, containing antiphons, responses...
Germany, 1st half of 12th century.
Two bifolia from a notably early antiphonal.
£5000
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[PRAYER-BOOK.]
The new and complete Family Prayer-Book,...
London: Printed for Alex. Hogg … [1784-5.]
First edition thus, rare, published in...
£950
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[CHURCH OF ENGLAND.]
The New Weeks Preparation for a worthy...
London, printed from the edition of the...
An attractive copy of two later editions...
£250
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[PRAYERS.]
The New-Years-Gift, complete: in six Parts....
London, Henry Mortlock, 1700.
Unrecorded edition of a very popular collection...
£1200
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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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[MISSAL.]
Nouveau paroissien romain, contenant l’offices...
Lyons, H. Curnier, 1869.
A pocket Paroissien in a charming...
£275
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[LITURGY.] Girolamo GIOVANNINI, editor.
Officium hebdomadae sanctae, juxta formam...
Venice, ‘ex typographia Balleoniana’, 1742.
Very rare small-format edition of the Offices...
£275
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CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA (Titus Flavius CLEMENS); Gentian HERVET, translator.
Omnia opera.
Paris, Sebastien Nivelle, 1572.
A thoroughly annotated copy of this early...
£4750
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LACTANTIUS.
Opera.
[Venice,] Vindelinus de Spira, 1472.
Magnificent incunable edition of the works...
£25000
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CYPRIAN, Saint; Desiderius ERASMUS, editor.
Opera [– Alter tomus operum].
Lyons, Sébastien Gryphe, 1550.
A richly annotated copy of the works of...
£1800
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CHRYSOSTOM, John.
[Opera: Homeliae.] Que in secundo Ioannis...
Venice, Stagnino & de Gregoriis, 1503.
First edition of Chrysostom’s Opera...
£2800
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BERNARD of Clairvaux.
Opera omnia, tam quae vere germana illius...
Paris, [Nicolas Bruslé for] Sébastien...
A rare Parisian edition of the works of...
£3750
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LACTANTIUS, Lucius Caelius Firmianus, et alii.
Opera perquam accurate castigata: Graeco...
[(Colophons:) Venice, Giovanni Tacuino...
A closely read copy of Lactantius’s encyclopaedia...
£2750
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CHRYSOSTOM, John.
[Opera] Que in secondo volumine continentur...
[Venice, Bernardino Stagnino and Gregorio...
The second volume of the first collected...
£2500
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BACON, Francis.
Opuscula varia posthuma, philosophica,...
London, R. Daniel, impensis Octaviani...
First edition, second issue of this collection...
£1250
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THOMAS AQUINAS; Antonius PIZAMANUS, editor.
Opuscula [with a life of St Thomas].
Venice, Hermannus Liechtenstein, 7 September...
First collected edition of seventy-one...
£3750
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AUGUSTINE, Pseudo-, et al.
Opusculum multarum bonaru[m] rerum refertum,...
Venice, Pietro Quarengi, 6 March 1512.
Uncommon edition of various devotional...
£750