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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AMBROSE of Milan, AUGUSTINE, and HIERONYMUS.
De virginitate opuscula Sanctorum doctorum,...
Rome, Paolo Manuzio, 1562.
Four first editions from Paolo Manuzio’s...
£4000
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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.]
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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[ANTIPHONAL.]
Very large historiated initial ‘H’...
Italy (Siena), c. 1300.
A very fine large initial painted in...
£6750
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ANTONIUS de Vercellis.
Sermones quadragesimales de XII mirabilibus...
Venice, Johannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis,...
A remarkable copy of the first edition...
£8500
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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, 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...
£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 of this...
£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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BEAUMONT, Joseph.
Psyche: or Loves Mysterie in XX. Canto’s:...
London, Printed by John Dawson for George...
First edition of this lengthy religious...
£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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BELLINTANI, Mattia.
Quattro prediche dell’istesso R. P. F. Mattia...
Brescia, Vincenzo Sabbio, 1598.
Very rare collection of sermons by the...
£750
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BERNARD of Clairvaux.
Opera omnia, tam quae vere germana illius...
Paris, [Nicolas Bruslé for] Sébastien...
A rare Parisian edition of the works...
£3750