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. FIAMMA, Gabriele. 

    Prediche del reverendo don Gabriel Fiamma,...

    Venice, Francesco Senese, 1570.

    Scarce third edition of this collection...

    £400

  2. FORD, Simon.

    The Restoring of fallen Brethren: containing...

    London, Printed for Henry Mortlock … 1697.

    First edition, the last published work...

    £275

  3. FREUD, Sigmund.

    Moses and monotheism [translated from the...

    New York, Alfred A, Knopf, 1939.

    First American edition of the last lifetime...

    £80

  4. FRY, Theodore.

    A brief Memoir of Francis Fry, F.S.A. of...

    [London, Printed by Barclay and Fry,] 1887.

    First edition. Francis Fry (1803–1886)...

    £850

  5. [FUNERAL SERMONS.]

    Annotated sammelband of eleven eulogies,...

    [Paris, 1682–1692.]

    A sammelband of funeral sermons for distinguished...

    £1200

  6. GAMON, Christophe de.

    La semaine, ou création du monde du sieur...

    [Geneva,] Gédéon Petit, 1609.

    Unauthorised second edition, scarcer than...

    £950

  7. GEORGES D’AMIENS.

    Trina Pauli theologia positiva, moralis,...

    Paris, ‘apud viduam et Dionysium Thierry’,...

    First edition of these commentaries on...

    £1250

  8. [GEORGE V.]

    The Form and Order of the Service that...

    London, Novello & Company, 1911.

    A handsome copy of the Coronation service,...

    £450

  9. [GEORGE V.]

    The Form and Order of the Service that...

    Oxford, Horace Hart at the University...

    A scarce edition of the order of service...

    £125

  10. GEREMIA, Pietro.

    Opus. Sermones in adventum Domini. Sermones...

    [(Colophons:) Brescia, Giacomo Britannico,...

    First edition of Geremia’s sermons, in...

    £2800

  11. GERHARD, Johann.

    Meditationes sacrae. Editio postrema, prioribus...

    Oxford, John Lichfield for Henry Curteyne,...

    First English-printed Latin edition of...

    £950

  12. GERSON, Johannes [Pseudo-].

    Donatus [moralisatus].

    [Nuremberg, Friedrich Creussner, c. 1475.]

    Early editions of two rare devotional tracts...

    £8500

  13. GOBINET, Charles. 

    Instruction sur la vérité du Saint Sacrement,...

    Paris, François le Cointe, 1677. 

    Scarce first edition thus, containing an...

    £650

  14. [GO Keitai 吳啓太 and TEI Eihō 鄭永邦.]

    官話指南 [Guanhua zhinan; ‘A...

    Kiukiang [Jiujiang], Central China Press, 1893.

    Very rare edition of this guide to Mandarin...

    £1750

  15. GOODWIN, Thomas.

    Romanae Historiae Anthologia … An English...

    Oxford, Leonard Lichfield for Henry Cripps,...

    Early editions of these two popular schoolbooks...

    £1600

  16. GOODWIN, Thomas.

    Romanae Historiae Anthologia … An English...

    London, R.W. for Peter Parker, 1661.

    A wholly unsophisticated Restoration sammelband...

    £850

  17. [GOSPELS.] Charles HURÉ, translator.

    Le nouveau testament de notre-seigneur...

    Paris, L. Roulland, 1712.

    An attractive early Jansenist binding,...

    £950

  18. [GRADUAL.]

    Vast historiated initial ‘A’ cut from...

    Italy (Umbria), end of thirteenth century.

    A spectacular initial on the scale of a...

    £20000

  19. GRAILE, John.

    Three Sermons preached at the Cathedral...

    London, W. Kettilby, 1685.

    First and only edition, rare. The third...

    £850

  20. [GUIDO DE MONTE ROCHEN.]

    Manipulus curatorum.

    [(Colophon:) London, Wynkyn de Worde,...

    First Wynkyn de Worde edition of this immensely...

    £17500