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. NAVARRETE, Domingo Fernández.

    Tratados historicos, politicos, ethicos,...

    Madrid, Juan Garcia Infançon for Florian...

    Scarce first edition, one of the most important...

    £4750

  2. NELSON, John.

    An Extract of John Nelson’s Journal,...

    Bristol, E. Farley & Co., 1767.

    Rare first edition, printed in Bristol,...

    £600

  3. NEPOS, Cornelius; Andreas SCHOTT, editor.

    Opera quae quidem extant … Nunc denuo...

    Frankfurt, Claude de Marne & the heirs...

    First edition thus, edited by Andreas Schott...

    £850

  4. NIXON, Howard M. 

    Broxbourne Library: Styles and Designs...

    London, Maggs Brothers for the Broxbourne...

    First edition, one of three hundred copies,...

    £875

  5. NOMEXY, Nicolas de.

    Parnassus poeticus … nunc primum in Germania...

    Rome, Guglielmo Facciotti, for Vincenzo...

    A bestselling compilation of Latin verse,...

    £650

  6. [NOVARA.]

    Editti per le sagre ordinationi, con altre...

    Novara, Francesco Liborio Cavallo, [1704].

    Very rare set of edicts governing ordination...

    £400

  7. [NUNS.]

    Il paradiso in terra aperto alle sagre...

    Rome, Ottavio Puccinelli, 1747.

    Second edition (first 1718) of an anonymous...

    £1750

  8. [ORPHIC POEMS.] ESCHENBACH, Andreas Christian, editor.

    Ορφεως αργοναυτικα υμνοι...

    Utrecht, Willem van de Water, 1689.

    First Eschenbach edition, presenting the...

    £325

  9. [OUR LADY OF LORETO.]

    Abregé de l’histoire de Notre Dame de...

    Loreto, Federico Sartori, 1787.

    Rare edition of this guidebook for French...

    £1350

  10. OVID.

    P. Ovidii Nasonis operum …

    Leiden, [Bonaventure & Abraham] Elzevir, 1629.

    First Elzevir edition, newly edited by...

    £500

  11. OVID; Georg SABINUS, editor.

    Metamorphoses seu fabulae poeticae earumque...

    Frankfurt, Nikolaus Hoffmann, 1608.

    A pocket edition of Ovid’s Metamorphoses...

    £325

  12. [OXFORD UNIVERSITY.]

    Pietas Universitatis Oxoniensis in obitum...

    Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1761.

    First edition, one of fifty copies on large...

    £9500

  13. PACE, Giulio.

    Artis Lullianae emendatae libri IV. Quibus...

    Naples, Secondino Roncagliolo, 1631.

    Rare third edition (first 1618) of this...

    £750

  14. PACIFICUS, Sacerdos.

    Two letters signed regarding religious...

    [?Hong Kong, 1846.]

    Two interesting letters referring to paintings...

    £1100

  15. PALLAVICINI, Stefano Benedetto.

    I penitenti al sepolcro del redentore second’il...

    [Prague], Johann Norbert Fitzky, [1738].

    A seemingly unrecorded edition of a libretto...

    £650

  16. [PASSAU.]

    Ursprung der Wallfahrt Maria Hilf bei Passau.

    [Passau?] 1845.

    First and only edition, very rare, of this...

    £175

  17. PASSI, Carlo.

    La selva di varia istoria … la quale...

    Venice, Altobello Salicato, 1572.

    An unsophisticated copy of Passi and Ruscelli’s...

    £500

  18. PEARSON, David.

    Bookbindings: an illustrated History.

    Oxford, Bodleian Library Publishing, 2026.

    Richly illustrated throughout, this book...

    £50

  19. PEPE, Stefano.

    [Half-title: ‘Il Cappuccino d’Este...

    [Italy, second half of the seventeenth...

    A seemingly unpublished life of Alfonso...

    £1250

  20. PEROTTO, Niccolò, and Benedetto BRUGNOLO, editor.

    Cornucopi[a]e nuper emendatum a domino...

    [Milan], Giovanni Giacomo and brothers...

    Scarce Milanese edition of Perotto’s...

    £1750