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. [BIBLE.]

    The Holy Bible, containing the Old and...

    Oxford, T. Wright and W. Gill, 1769.

    First quarto edition of the Oxford ‘standard’...

    £5250

  2. BIBLE.

    Book of Habakkuk 1–3.

    Southern Germany?, c. 1475?

    A leaf from a large Latin Bible, professionally...

    £3750

  3. [BIBLE, New Testament.]

    Pauli Apostoli epistolae … Epistolae...

    Brescia, Damiano and Giacomo Filippo Turlino,...

    Scarce Brescia edition of the Epistles...

    £2500

  4. [BIBLE – OLD TESTAMENT.]

    Los cinco libros de la ley divina. De nuevo...

    Amsterdam, ‘en casa, y a costa de Selomoh...

    An uncommon and handsomely produced Pentateuch...

    £1850

  5. [BIBLE – OLD TESTAMENT and APOCRYPHA, Greek; Johann LONITZER, editor.]

    Της θειας γραφης παλαιας...

    Strasbourg, Wolfgang Köpfel, 1526.

    The first edition of the Old Testament...

    £8500

  6. BIEL, Gabriel.

    Sacri canonis Missae lucidiss. expositio...

    Brescia, Pietro and Tommaso Bozzola, 1576.

    Brescia edition of an exposition of the...

    £350

  7. BLANCHON, Jacques.

    Iacobi Blanchoni Ucessiensis adversus Ludovicum...

    Lyons, Jean de Tournes, 1550.

    First edition of a very rare work of sixteenth-century...

    £950

  8. BOETHIUS; Richard GRAHAM, Viscount Preston, translator.

    Of the Consolation of Philosophy. In five...

    London, J. D. for Awnsham and John Churchill,...

    First edition of this translation by the...

    £950

  9. [BOIS, Paul.]

    La vie des premieres religieuses Capucines...

    Marseille, de l’imprimerie de Dominique...

    Scarce first edition of a compendium of...

    £375

  10. [BOIS-SEIGNEUR-ISAAC.]

    Histoire memorable et digne de foy, du...

    Mons, Charles Michel, 1593.

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

    £1250

  11. BOLZANIO, Urbano or URBANUS BELLUNENSIS.

    Institutionum in linguam Graecam grammaticarum,...

    Basel, Johann Walder, September 1535.

    Basel edition of this popular grammar commissioned...

    £2000

  12. [BONIOHANNES de Messana, attributed.]

    Speculum sapiencie beati Cirilli episcopi...

    [Basel, Michael Wenssler, c. 1475.]

    An attractive early incunable edition of...

    £7250

  13. [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

  14. [BOOK OF HOURS.]

    In Dutch.

    The Netherlands, c. 1475.

    A very attractive leaf from a small Dutch...

    £1500

  15. [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

  16. BOUTMY, C.

    ‘Exercitium quotidianum dedicatum perillustri...

    [Belgium, 1760.]

    An attractively bound unpublished devotional...

    £450

  17. [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

  18. [BREVIARY, Use of Passau.]

    Breviarium s[ecundu]m chorum alme Ecclesie...

    [(Colophon:) Venice, Petrus Liechtenstein...

    A rare Passau breviary with numerous woodcut...

    £4500

  19. BUDÉ, Guillaume.

    G. Budaei … Epistolarum latinarum lib....

    [Paris,] Jodocus Badius, February 1531.

    The first Badius combined edition of the...

    £5500

  20. BURNET, Gilbert.

    A Vindication of the Authority, Constitution,...

    Glasgow, Robert Sanders, 1673.

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

    £500