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. [BONIOHANNES de Messana, attributed.]

    Speculum sapiencie beati Cirilli episcopi...

    [Basel, Michael Wenssler, c. 1475.]

    An attractive early incunable edition of...

    £7250

  2. [BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER.]

    La Liturgie. C’est a dire, le formulaire...

    A Londres, pour Jean Dunmore & Octavien...

    First edition of this translation, printed...

    £750

  3. [BOUCHET, Jean.]

    Les triu[m]phes de la noble et amoureuse...

    Paris, Estienne Caveiller for Pierre Sergent,...

    Unrecorded issue of Jean Bouchet’s contemplative...

    £4500

  4. BOUTMY, C.

    ‘Exercitium quotidianum dedicatum perillustri...

    [Belgium, 1760.]

    An attractively bound unpublished devotional...

    £450

  5. [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

  6. [BREVIARY.]

    Sarum Breviary, in Latin.

    England, first quarter of fifteenth century.

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

    £4250

  7. BUDÉ, Guillaume.

    G. Budaei … Epistolarum latinarum lib....

    [Paris,] Jodocus Badius, February 1531.

    The first Badius combined edition of the...

    £5500

  8. BURNET, Gilbert.

    A Vindication of the Authority, Constitution,...

    Glasgow, Robert Sanders, 1673.

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

    £500

  9. BUXTORF, Johannes.

    Epitome grammaticae Hebraeae, breviter...

    London, Roger Daniel, 1653.

    Second edition (first Cambridge, 1646)...

    £650

  10. 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

  11. CAESAR, Gaius Julius.

    C. Julii Caesaris quae extant. Accuratissime...

    London, Jacob Tonson, 1712.

    First edition of the celebrated Tonson’s...

    £9500

  12. [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

  13. CALLINI, Bartolommeo.

    Arrolandosi sotto le insegne di Gesù Cristo...

    Vicenza, Tipografia Paroni, 1802.

    A seemingly unrecorded sonnet celebrating...

    £350

  14. CALMET, Antoine Augustin.

    Commentaire litteral sur tous les livres...

    Paris, Pierre Emery, 1712.

    First edition of the commentary on the...

    £450

  15. [CAMBOUT, Sébastien Joseph du; 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...

    £700

  16. [CANONS REGULAR OF THE LATERAN.]

    Regula et constitutiones Canonicorum Regularium...

    Rome, apud Paulum Bladum, 1592. 

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

    £18500

  17. [CAPUCHINS.]

    Diploma conferring ‘privilegium maximum’.

    ‘Bojonii’, 22 October 1779.

    An attractive diploma issued by Erhard...

    £450

  18. 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

  19. CARTARI, Vincenzo.

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

    Venice, Francesco Marcolini, 1556.

    First edition of Cartari’s influential...

    £800

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

    Repertorium statutoru[m] ordinis cartusiensis...

    Basel, Johann Amerbach, 1510.

    First printed edition of the Statutes of...

    £7500