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. BOUTMY, C.

    ‘Exercitium quotidianum dedicatum perillustri...

    [Belgium, 1760.]

    An attractively bound unpublished devotional...

    £450

  2. [BOUTREUX D’ESTIAU, Jacques de.]

    De la puissance roialle sur la police de...

    Paris, Pierre Durand, 1625.

    A pair of uncommon works defending the...

    £950

  3. [BREVIARY.]

    Sarum Breviary, in Latin.

    England, first quarter of fifteenth century.

    A fragment of twenty-one leaves from a...

    £4250

  4. BUDÉ, Guillaume.

    G. Budaei … Epistolarum latinarum lib....

    [Paris,] Jodocus Badius, February 1531.

    Handsome Badius edition of the Latin and...

    £5500

  5. BURNET, Gilbert.

    A Vindication of the Authority, Constitution,...

    Glasgow, Robert Sanders, 1673.

    One of three editions, all of the same...

    £500

  6. [BUTRIO, Antonius de, attributed; HUGH of Saint-Cher; Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo; DENIS the Carthusian.]

    [Speculum de confessione; Ars moriendi;...

    [(Colophon:) Louvain, Johannes de Westfalia,]...

    Rare third(?) edition, printed in Louvain,...

    £5750

  7. BUXTORF, Johannes.

    Epitome grammaticae Hebraeae, breviter...

    London, Roger Daniel, 1653.

    Second edition (first Cambridge, 1646)...

    £650

  8. CADOGAN, William Bromley.

    The Felicity of God’s Children, considered...

    Reading: Printed and Sold by Smart and...

    First edition, a funeral sermon by the...

    £75

  9. CAESAR, Gaius Julius.

    C. Julii Caesaris quae extant. Accuratissime...

    London, Jacob Tonson, 1712.

    First edition of the celebrated Tonson’s...

    £9500

  10. [CAESAR.]  RAMUS, Petrus (Pierre de la RAMÉE). 

    Liber de militia C. Julii Caesaris, cum...

    Frankfurt, heirs of Andreas Wechel, 1584. 

    An attractively bound copy of Ramus’s...

    £450

  11. CALLINI, Bartolommeo.

    Arrolandosi sotto le insegne di Gesù Cristo...

    Vicenza, Tipografia Paroni, 1802.

    A seemingly unrecorded sonnet celebrating...

    £350

  12. CALMET, Antoine Augustin.

    Commentaire litteral sur tous les livres...

    Paris, Pierre Emery, 1712.

    First edition of the commentary on the...

    £450

  13. CAMBOUT, Sébastien Joseph du, and John EVELYN (attributed translator)].

    The moral Practice of the Jesuites. Demonstrated...

    London, Printed for Simon Miller, at the...

    First edition in English of La morale pratique...

    £700

  14. [CANONS REGULAR OF THE LATERAN.]

    Regula et constitutiones Canonicorum Regularium...

    Rome, apud Paulum Bladum, 1592. 

    The most complete edition, rare, of the...

    £18500

  15. [CAPUCHINS.]

    Diploma conferring ‘privilegium maximum’.

    ‘Bojonii’, 22 October 1779.

    An attractive diploma issued by Erhard...

    £450

  16. CARLI, Paolo Francesco da Montecarlo.

    La Svinatura di Barbigi Mezzabarba (Paol...

    Campobasso, Stab. Tip. Del Progresso, 1878.

    Rare edition of a satire by poet and abbot...

    £150

  17. CARTARI, Vincenzo.

    Le imagini con la spositione de i dei de...

    Venice, Francesco Marcolini, 1556.

    First edition of Cartari’s influential...

    £800

  18. [CARTHUSIANS. GUIGO DE CASTRO, compiler.]

    Repertorium statutoru[m] ordinis cartusiensis...

    Basel, Johann Amerbach, 1510.

    First printed edition of the Statutes of...

    £7500

  19. CASAL, Gaspar do.

    Axiomata christiana ex divinis scripturis...

    Coimbra, João da Barreira and João Alvares,...

    First edition of Gaspar do Casal’s major...

    £2500

  20. [CATECHISM.]

    Fundamentum eterne felicitatis omnibus...

    [(Colophon:) Cologne, [Retro minores (Martin...

    Very rare first edition of this small-format...

    £5000