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. CASTELLESI, Adriano.

    Hadriani cardinalis de vera philosophia...

    Cologne, Melchior von Neuss, 1540.

    A fine sammelband of theological works,...

    £1750

  2. CATHERINE of Siena.

    Dialogo della serafica vergine, et sposa...

    Venice, Giacomo Cornetti, 1589.

    An uncommon edition of Saint Catherine...

    £550

  3. CATTANI DA DIACCETO, Francesco. 

    Homelie … sopra la sequenza del corpo...

    Florence, Lorenzo Ducale, 1559.

    Uncommon first edition of a collection...

    £550

  4. [CHARITY.]

    Costituzioni della Congregazione della...

    Parma, Stamperia Reale, [1778].

    Uncommon set of constitutions for the Congregazione...

    £300

  5. [CHARLES II.]

    RIVET, Jean. ‘Le favory du Ciel ou Meditation...

    [Caussade en Quercy, 1664.]

    A fascinating manuscript meditation on...

    £1850

  6. [CHARTONNET, Antoine-François.] 

    Considerations sur les devoirs des personnes...

    Paris, chez Edme Couterot, 1695. 

    Rare first edition of this religious manual...

    £275

  7. CHEVALIER, André-Joseph, professor; A.J. BERENTS, compiler.

    ‘Tractatus De Fide, Spe et Charitate...

    [Douai, 9 March–4 August] 1787.

    A manuscript treatise concerning the three...

    £375

  8. [CHINA.]

    Business report written to a Mr Luo by...

    [China], 咸豐壬子年 [1852].

    An interesting mid-nineteenth-century report...

    £750

  9. [CHOISY, François Timoléon, Abbé de.]

    Journal ou suite de voyage de Siam. En...

    Amsterdam, Pierre Mortier, 1687.

    Amsterdam edition, issued the same year...

    £300

  10. CHRYSOSTOM, John. 

    [Opera: Homeliae.]  Que in secundo Ioannis...

    Venice, Stagnino & de Gregoriis, 1503. 

    First edition of Chrysostom’s Opera...

    £2800

  11. CHRYSOSTOM, John.

    [Opera] Que in secondo volumine continentur...

    [Venice, Bernardino Stagnino and Gregorio...

    The second volume of the first collected...

    £2500

  12. CHRYSOSTOM, John.

    Opera …

    [(Colophon:) Venice, Bernardino Stagnino...

    The first collected edition of John Chrysostom’s...

    £3750

  13. [CHURCH OF ENGLAND.]

    The New Weeks Preparation for a worthy...

    London, printed from the edition of the...

    An attractive copy of two later editions...

    £250

  14. CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA (Titus Flavius CLEMENS); Gentian HERVET, translator.

    Omnia opera.

    Paris, Sebastien Nivelle, 1572.

    A thoroughly annotated copy of this early...

    £4750

  15. CLEMENT VII.

    Tröstliche vermanung Bapst Clements des...

    [Augsburg, Alexander Weissenhorn,] 1532.

    First and only edition of this German translation...

    £1500

  16. [COLVIL, Samuel.]

    ‘Mock Poem, or Whiggs Supplication Part ii’.

    1670s?

    A fine contemporary manuscript of the second...

    £1250

  17. [COMMON PRAYER.] 

    The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration...

    London, Millar Ritchie for J. Good and...

    A splendid copy of the Good and Harding...

    £1850

  18. [COMMON PRAYER.]

    The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration...

    London & Glasgow, Collins’ Clear-Type...

    A George V Common Prayer and hymnal, uniformly...

    £275

  19. [CONGREGATION OF RITES.]

    Sacra Rituum congregatione … Card. Otthobono...

    Rome, Tipografia della Reverenda Camera...

    A seemingly unrecorded volume supporting...

    £1750

  20. [CONGREGAZIONE DELL’ORATORIO DI ROMA.]

    Sammelband of fourteen libretti.

    Rome, 1765–1768.

    A sammelband of rare devotional libretti...

    £1750