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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[PRAYERS.]
‘Orationes diversae pro temporum opportunitate...
[Likely Lucca, late eighteenth century.]
A delightful manuscript prayerbook for...
£475
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[MISSAL.]
Ordinaire de la Messe.
[Paris?, c. 1890–1900].
A lithographed and elegantly hand-coloured...
£350
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[MILAN, province of.]
Ordo admittendi virgines ad monasterii...
Milan, Tamburini and Valdoni, 1843.
Scarce edition of this set of rites for...
£200
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ARIAS, Francisco.
Paleys der deughden begrypende de naervolghinghe...
Antwerp, Gheleyn Janssens, 1609.
First Dutch edition of this work of Marian...
£375
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[BIBLE, New Testament.]
Pauli Apostoli epistolae … Epistolae...
Brescia, Damiano and Giacomo Filippo Turlino,...
Scarce Brescia edition of the Epistles...
£2500
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[LANSPERGER, Johannes Justus;] Serafino ACETI DE’ PORTI, translator.
Pharetra divini amoris, tradotto in volgare...
Venice, Paolo Gherardo [(colophon:) Comin...
Third Italian edition, considerably enlarged,...
£1500
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COSTER, François.
Piarum et Christ. institutionum libri...
Douai, Jean Bogard, 1582.
Very rare Douai edition of this devotional...
£675
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MILNER, Joseph.
Practical Sermons, by the late Rev. Joseph...
York: Printed by G. Peacock; and sold...
First edition, rare, collecting 21 sermons...
£175
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[PRIMER.]
Preces privatae, in studiosorum gratia[m]...
London, William Seres, 1568.
Second edition of this rare ‘private’...
£4250
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FIAMMA, Gabriele.
Prediche del reverendo don Gabriel Fiamma,...
Venice, Francesco Senese, 1570.
Scarce third edition of this collection...
£400
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ZENO of Verona, Saint.
In presenti opusculo infrascripta continentur. ...
Venice, Giacomo Penzio for Benedetto Fontana,...
Rare first edition of the sermons of Zeno...
£1500
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STAPLETON, Thomas.
Promptuarium Catholicum ad instructionem...
Antwerp, Pierre Beller, 1592.
Rare third edition, expanded, of Stapleton’s...
£700
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LUDOPHUS of Saxony.
In Psal. David, diligentiss. Simul, &...
[Lyons,] A. Vincent, [1542].
Uncommon and significant edition of one...
£2000
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[PSALMS.]
Psalmi Davidis regis et vatis inclyti,...
Antwerp, [(colophon:) Jan Verwithagen...
A collection of verse paraphrases of the...
£975
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[PSALMS; Basil WOODD, editor.]
The Psalms of David, and other Portions...
London, Watts & Bridgewaters, Rivingtons,...
A pocket-sized Psalm- and prayerbook with...
£2000
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[PSALMS.]
Psalterium Davidis carmine redditum per...
Paris, [(colophon:) Guillaume Morel for]...
Seemingly unrecorded issue of the Psalms...
£1250
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BELLINTANI, Mattia.
Quattro prediche dell’istesso R. P. F. Mattia...
Brescia, Vincenzo Sabbio, 1598.
Very rare collection of sermons by the...
£750
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[PRAYERS.]
Récueil de plusieurs prieres.
Vienna, ‘chez Georg Müllner libraire...
Very rare and charming early nineteenth-century...
£450
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HAEFTEN, Benedictus van.
Regia via crucis.
Antwerp, Ex officina Plantiniana Balthasaris...
First edition of an important counter-reformation...
£1100
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[DOMINICAN NUNS.]
Regola e costituzioni delle suore di S....
Rome, Bernardo Morini, 1853.
Very rare first edition thus of the regulations...
£250