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.

 
  1. ANTIPHONAL,

    with neumes, containing antiphons, responses...

    Germany, 1st half of 12th century. 

    Two bifolia from a notably early antiphonal. 

    £5000

  2. [ANTIPHONAL.]

    Very large historiated initial ‘H’...

    Italy (Siena), c. 1300.

    A very fine large initial painted in a...

    £6750

  3. [GRADUAL.]

    Vast historiated initial ‘A’ cut from...

    Italy (Umbria), end of thirteenth century.

    A spectacular initial on the scale of a...

    £20000

  4. [ANTIPHONAL.]

    Antiphonal, with neumes, containing music...

    Southern Germany or Bohemia, mid-fifteenth...

    An unusual and striking antiphonal leaf...

    £3500

  5. LACTANTIUS.

    Opera.

    [Venice,] Vindelinus de Spira, 1472.

    Magnificent incunable edition of the works...

    £25000

  6. AUGUSTINUS TRIUMPHUS [i.e. AUGUSTINUS de Ancona].  

    Summa de potestate ecclesiastica.

    Augsburg, [Johann Schüssler,] 6 March 1473.

    First edition of this highly important...

    £22500

  7. HERP, Hendrik.

    Speculum aureum decem praeceptorum Dei.

    [(Colophon:) Mainz, Peter Schoeffer, 10...

    First edition of this collection of sermons...

    £24000

  8. PAULUS DE SANCTA MARIA.

    Scrutinium scripturarum.

    [Strasbourg, Johann Mentelin, c. 1474.]

    Third edition of this treatise of Christian...

    £10000

  9. [BONIOHANNES de Messana, attributed.]

    Speculum sapiencie beati Cirilli episcopi...

    [Basel, Michael Wenssler, c. 1475.]

    An attractive early incunable edition of...

    £7250

  10. EUSEBIUS CAESARIENSIS; RUFINUS AQUILEIENSIS, translator.

    Historia ecclesiastica.

    Rome, Johannes Philippus de Lignamine,...

    The Syston Park copy of the earliest history...

    £4500

  11. GERSON, Johannes [Pseudo-].

    Donatus [moralisatus].

    [Nuremberg, Friedrich Creussner, c. 1475.]

    Early editions of two rare devotional tracts...

    £8500

  12. THOMAS of Cantimpré.

    Bonum universale de proprietatibus apum.

    [Cologne, Johann Koelhoff, the Elder,...

    Second edition of this manual of moral...

    £6000

  13. LUDOLPH of Saxony.

    Vita Christi.

    Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 20 December 1478.

    Early incunable edition of Ludolph of Saxony’s...

    £45000

  14. URSINIS, Bartholomaeus de.

    [Quadragesimale quod dicitur Gratia Dei.]

    [Naples, Francesco del Tuppo for Bernardinus...

    First and only edition, a handsome, wide-margined...

    £27500

  15. [INCUNABLE SAMMELBAND.]

    Sammelband of ten works.

    Rome, Stephan Plannck and Eucharius Silber,...

    A sammelband of ten Roman incunables, nine...

    £25000

  16. [SERMONS.]

    [Sermones sensati.]

    [(Colophon:) Gouda, Gerard Leeu, 20 February...

    First and only incunable edition of a rare...

    £8500

  17. [LAURENTIUS, Frater; Jan van BREDERODE, translator.]

    [Summe le roy of des conincs summe.]

    [(Colophon:) Haarlem, [Jacob Bellaert],...

    Rare early edition in Dutch (first Delft...

    £40000

  18. MEFFRET, Johann.

    Sermones Meffreth alias Ortulus regine...

    [Basel, Nicolaus Kesler, not after 1485.]

    A volume of sermons with early English...

    £6500

  19. [PSALTER.] [BRUNO, Archbishop of Würzburg, editor.]

    Psalterium.

    [Würzburg, Georg Reyser, c. 1488–1489.]

    First edition of the Psalter with the commentary...

    £24000

  20. [JEROME, Saint.]

    Obitus beati iheromini.

    [Delft, Jacob Jacobszoon van der Meer,...

    Rare incunable edition (first printed in...

    £22500