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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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 a...
£6750
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[GRADUAL.]
Vast historiated initial ‘A’ cut from...
Italy (Umbria), end of thirteenth century.
A spectacular initial on the scale of a...
£20000
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[BREVIARY.]
Sarum Breviary, in Latin.
England, first quarter of fifteenth century.
A fragment of twenty-one leaves from a...
£4250
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[ANTIPHONAL.]
Antiphonal, with neumes, containing music...
Southern Germany or Bohemia, mid-fifteenth...
An unusual and striking antiphonal leaf...
£3500
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LACTANTIUS.
Opera.
[Venice,] Vindelinus de Spira, 1472.
Magnificent incunable edition of the works...
£25000
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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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HERP, Hendrik.
Speculum aureum decem praeceptorum Dei.
[(Colophon:) Mainz, Peter Schoeffer, 10...
First edition of this collection of sermons...
£24000
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[BONIOHANNES de Messana, attributed.]
Speculum sapiencie beati Cirilli episcopi...
[Basel, Michael Wenssler, c. 1475.]
An attractive early incunable edition of...
£7250
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EUSEBIUS CAESARIENSIS; RUFINUS AQUILEIENSIS, translator.
Historia ecclesiastica.
Rome, Johannes Philippus de Lignamine,...
The Syston Park copy of the earliest history...
£4500
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THOMAS of Cantimpré.
Bonum universale de proprietatibus apum.
[Cologne, Johann Koelhoff, the Elder,...
Second edition of this manual of moral...
£6000
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[INCUNABLE SAMMELBAND.]
Sammelband of ten works.
Rome, Stephan Plannck and Eucharius Silber,...
A sammelband of ten Roman incunables, nine...
£25000
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PFEFFER DE WYDENBERG, Johannes.
[Directorium sacerdotale.]
[Basel, Johann Besicken, after 20 December...
First and only incunable edition, very...
£6500
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[SERMONS.]
[Sermones sensati.]
[(Colophon:) Gouda, Gerard Leeu, 20 February...
First and only incunable edition of a rare...
£8500
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[PSALTER.] [BRUNO, Archbishop of Würzburg, editor.]
Psalterium.
[Würzburg, Georg Reyser, c. 1488–1489.]
First edition of the Psalter with the commentary...
£24000
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MEFFRET, Johann.
Sermones Meffreth alias Ortulus regine...
[Basel, Nicolaus Kesler, not after 1485.]
A volume of sermons with early English...
£6500
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THOMAS AQUINAS; Antonius PIZAMANUS, editor.
Opuscula [with a life of St Thomas].
Venice, Hermannus Liechtenstein, 7 September...
First collected edition of seventy-one...
£3750
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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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[THOMAS à Kempis.]
Ioanni Gerson vulgare devota operetta della...
Florence, Antonio Miscomini, 22 July 1493.
Uncommon editions of two classic Latin...
£5750
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VORAGINE, Jacobus de.
Sermones quadragesimales [– de tempore...
[(Colophons:) Venice, Simon de Luere for...
An annotated copy of Jacobus de Voragine’s...
£3250