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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[CHAMPIER, Symphorien.]
La vie & les gestes du preux chevalier...
Lyons, Olivier Arnoullet, [(colophon:)...
A rare edition of Champier’s account...
£9500
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CHAMPIER, [Symphorien].
Les gestes ensembles la vie du preulx chevalier...
Lyons, Gilbert Devilliers, [(colophon:)...
Rare first edition of this richly illustrated...
£18000
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[CHAMPIER, Symphorien.]
La vie & les gestes du preux Chevalier...
[(Colophon:) Poitiers, Jacques Bouchet...
An otherwise unrecorded late sixteenth-century...
£8750
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[CHARITY.]
Costituzioni della Congregazione della...
Parma, Stamperia Reale, [1778].
Uncommon set of constitutions for the Congregazione...
£300
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[CHARLES II.]
RIVET, Jean. ‘Le favory du Ciel ou Meditation...
[Caussade en Quercy, 1664.]
A fascinating manuscript meditation on...
£1850
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[CHARTONNET, Antoine-François.]
Considerations sur les devoirs des personnes...
Paris, chez Edme Couterot, 1695.
Rare first edition of this religious manual...
£275
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CHEKE, John, Sir, and Stephen [GARDINER], Bishop of Winchester.
De pronuntiatione graecae potissimum linguae...
Basel, Nikolaus Episcopius the younger, 1555.
First edition of this collection of letters...
£950
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CHEVALIER, André-Joseph, professor; A.J. BERENTS, compiler.
‘Tractatus De Fide, Spe et Charitate...
[Douai, 9 March–4 August] 1787.
A manuscript treatise concerning the three...
£375
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[CHINA.]
Business report written to a Mr Luo by...
[China], 咸豐壬子年 [1852].
An interesting mid-nineteenth-century report...
£750
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[CHOISY, François Timoléon, Abbé de.]
Journal ou suite de voyage de Siam. En...
Amsterdam, Pierre Mortier, 1687.
Amsterdam edition, issued the same year...
£300
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CHRYSOSTOM, John.
[Opera: Homeliae.] Que in secundo Ioannis...
Venice, Stagnino & de Gregoriis, 1503.
First edition of Chrysostom’s Opera...
£2800
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CHRYSOSTOM, John.
[Opera] Que in secondo volumine continentur...
[Venice, Bernardino Stagnino and Gregorio...
The second volume of the first collected...
£2500
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CHRYSOSTOM, John.
Opera …
[(Colophon:) Venice, Bernardino Stagnino...
The first collected edition of John Chrysostom’s...
£3750
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[CHURCH OF ENGLAND.]
The New Weeks Preparation for a worthy...
London, printed from the edition of the...
An attractive copy of two later editions...
£250
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CICERO, Marcus Tullius.
Orationum pars I. Cum correctionibus P. Manutii,...
Venice, ‘ex bibliotheca Aldina’, 1570.
An unusual example of a white calf German...
£1850
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CICERO, Marcus Tullius.
M. T. Ciceronis orationes Philippicae...
Paris, Jean Loys, 1544.
Extremely rare edition of Cicero’s Philippics...
£2250
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CICERO, Marcus Tullius.
De philosophia tomus primus.
Lyon, Sébastien Gryphe, 1546.
A small format Lyon edition of Cicero,...
£300
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CICERO, Marcus Tullius.
Rheticorum ad Herennium libri IIII. Et...
Venice, heirs of Giovanni Griffio, 1576.
An attractive copy of the two earliest...
£600
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CIGAULD, Vincent.
Allegationes Vincentii … iudicis ordinarii...
(Colophon:) Paris, Jean Frellon, 23 December...
Extremely rare first edition of this legal...
£2500
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CLAUDIANUS, Claudius.
Claudii Claudiani Alexandrini, poetae illustriss. quotquot...
Paris, Simon de Colines, 1530.
First Colines edition of the major works...
£850