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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ABBIATE FORIERI, Matteo.
La Colonna di chiesa santa. Panegirico...
Milan, Lodovico Monza, 1660.
Very rare panegyric given at the Church...
£175
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ACQUAVIVA, Claudio.
Meditationes in Psalmum XLIV, & CXVIII.
Rome, Bartolomeo Zanetti, 1616.
First edition of these Jesuit meditations...
£1550
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[ADVENT.]
Praeparatio ad nativitatem Domini Nostri...
Turin, Ignazio Soffietti, [c. 1790].
An extremely rare short liturgical text...
£475
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[ALEXANDER VII, Pope.]
Vero e pieno ragguaglio delle ceremonie...
Rome and Florence, nella stamperia di...
Very rare first(?) edition of this detailed...
£450
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[ALMANACK.]
Le triomphe de la vertu. Sujets tirés...
Paris, Janet, [1814].
A very rare biblical almanack for 1814...
£300
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[ALTAR CARDS.]
Two altar cards with Latin text and images...
Paris, Vanheck, [early eighteenth century].
Two seemingly unrecorded hand-coloured...
£1750
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[ALVISET, Jean Antoine.]
L’Ange gardien. Pour les devotes confreries...
Lyon, Jacques du Creux, 1647.
Very rare devotional manual for female...
£350
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[AQUHORTIES.]
Abstract of the Rules and Regulations for...
Edinburgh, Printed by J. Moir, Paterson’s...
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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[ARCHCONFRATERNITY OF SAN GIOVANNI DECOLLATO.]
...
Rome, second half of eighteenth century.
An unusual woodcut – likely intended...
£500
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ARIAS, Francisco.
Paleys der deughden begrypende de naervolghinghe...
Antwerp, Gheleyn Janssens, 1609.
First Dutch edition of this work of Marian...
£375
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[ATHANASIUS, Pseudo-.]
Գիրք պատասխանական Ս[ր]բ[ո]յն...
Constantinople, Chnchin Hovhannes, [1749].
Rare theological and moral treatise in...
£2000
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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 of this collection...
£1250
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[BARNABITES.]
Vesperae quae cantantur solemniter a clericis...
[Rome, 1693 and later.]
A finely executed manuscript comprising...
£2750
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BARONIO, Cesare.
Martyrologium Romanum, Gregorii XIII auctoritate...
Mainz, Johann Theobald Schönwetter, 1631.
Uncommon edition of Cesare Baronio’s...
£875
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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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BATTEN, Henry, and Henry VINER, composers and arrangers.
Responses, Suffrages, Tersanctus, and Chants,...
Penzance, Viner’s Musical Repository, 1844.
Exceedingly rare first and only edition...
£300
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BEAUMONT, Joseph.
Psyche: or Loves Mysterie in XX. Canto’s:...
London, Printed by John Dawson for George...
First edition of this lengthy religious...
£1250