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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ABBEVILLE, Claude d’.
Histoire de la mission des peres capucins...
Paris, François Huby, 1614.
Second edition, enlarged and revised...
£30000
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ACETI DE’ PORTI, Serafino.
Novo paradiso di delitie spirituali, nel...
Bologna, Giovanni Rossi, 1563.
Rare first edition of this devotional work...
£850
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[ALTAR CARDS.]
Two altar cards with Latin text and images...
‘A Paris, chez I. Baudemont’, second...
Two seemingly unrecorded hand-coloured...
£2750
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ANGELI, Alessandro degli.
In astrologos coniectores libri quinque...
Lyons, Horace Cardon, 1615.
First edition of this thorough attack...
£1600
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ANGLÉS, José.
Flores theologicarum quaestionum, in quartum...
Rome, Giuseppe de Angelis, 1578.
Scarce second edition (first Cagliari,...
£750
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[ANTIPHONAL.]
Very large historiated initial ‘H’,...
Italy (Siena), c. 1300.
A very fine large initial painted in...
£6750
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[ANTIPHONAL.]
Antiphonal, with neumes, containing music...
Southern Germany or Bohemia, mid-fifteenth...
An unusual and striking antiphonal leaf...
£4250
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ANTIPHONAL,
with neumes, containing antiphons, responses...
Germany, 1st half of 12th century.
Two bifolia from a notably early antiphonal.
£5000
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ANVILLE, Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d’.
Considérations générales, sur l’étude...
Paris, Galeries du Louvres, 1777
Two first edition works in one volume...
£500
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[AQUHORTIES.]
Abstract of the Rules and Regulations for...
Edinburgh, J. Moir, [1799?].
Broadside rules for the newly established...
£850
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[ARCHCONFRATERNITY OF THE MOST HOLY CRUCIFIX.]
Distinta descrizione della machina, luminari,...
Rome, per il Casaletti, 1775.
Rare record of a procession made by members...
£250
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AUGUSTINE, Pseudo-, et al.
Opusculum multarum bonaru[m] rerum refertum,...
Venice, Pietro Quarengi, 6 March 1512.
Uncommon edition of various devotional...
£750
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AUGUSTINUS TRIUMPHUS [i.e. AUGUSTINUS de Ancona].
Summa de potestate ecclesiastica.
Augsburg, [Johann Schüssler,] 6 March 1473.
First edition of this highly important...
£22500
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BACON, Francis.
Opuscula varia posthuma, philosophica,...
London, R. Daniel, impensis Octaviani...
First edition, second issue (with the...
£1250
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[BASKERVILLE PRESS.]
The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration...
Third and final edition of Baskerville’s...
£1200
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BAUMGARTNER, Reinhard.
Conclusiones ex universa theologia morali...
[Augsburg], Joseph Antonius Labhart, [1754].
Only edition of this attractively printed...
£175
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BEAUMONT, Joseph.
Psyche: or Loves Mysterie in XX. Canto’s:...
London, Printed by John Dawson for George...
First edition. Beaumont was one of the...
£1250
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BEAUVILLIERS, Marie de.
Conférences spirituelles d’une supérieure...
Paris, Moquet et Cie for Toulouse, 1838.
Scarce second edition (first 1837, also...
£400
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BELLARMINE, Robert.
R. P. Roberti Bellarmini Politiani, e...
Cologne, Anton Hierat, 1599.
One of several editions to appear in 1599...
£450
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BELLINTANI, Mattia.
Quattro prediche dell’istesso R. P. F. Mattia...
Brescia, Vincenzo Sabbio, 1598.
Very rare collection of sermons by the...
£750