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. NELSON, John.

    An Extract of John Nelson’s Journal,...

    Bristol, E. Farley & Co., 1767.

    Rare first edition, printed in Bristol,...

    £600

  2. PACE, Giulio.

    Artis Lullianae emendatae libri IV. Quibus...

    Naples, Secondino Roncagliolo, 1631.

     Rare third edition (first 1618) of this...

    £750

  3. PACIFICUS, Sacerdos.

    Two letters signed regarding religious...

    [?Hong Kong, 1846.]

    Two interesting letters referring to paintings...

    £1100

  4. PETRINI, Giovanni.

    Sixteen copper engravings depicting scenes...

    [Rome, late eighteenth century.]

    An attractive volume containing sixteen...

    £1750

  5. PIERTZ, Leonhard, Praesidens; Johann Ernst SCHLERETH, Respondens.

    De sacramentis in specie, Eucharistia et...

    Würzburg, Johann Michael Kleyer, 1703.

    A good copy of this rare Würzburg dissertation...

    £175

  6. ‘PIETRO da VICOVARO’, i.e. Giuseppe CORTESE.

    Apparecchio per accompagnare Maria Santissima...

    Rome, Komarek, 1735.

    Very rare devotional work dedicated to...

    £550

  7. [PRAYER-BOOK.]

    The new and complete Family Prayer-Book,...

    London: Printed for Alex. Hogg … [1784-5.]

    First edition thus, rare, published in...

    £950

  8. [PRAYERBOOK.]

    ‘Gebetbuch’.

    [Germany, early nineteenth century.]

    An attractive early nineteenth-century...

    £185

  9. [PRAYERS.] 

    ‘Orationes diversae pro temporum opportunitate...

    [Likely Lucca, late eighteenth century.] 

    A delightful manuscript prayerbook for...

    £475

  10. [PRAYERS.] 

    Récueil de plusieurs prieres.   

    Vienna, ‘chez Georg Müllner libraire...

    Very rare and charming early nineteenth-century...

    £450

  11. [PRAYERS.]

    The New-Years-Gift, complete: in six Parts....

    London, Henry Mortlock, 1700.

    Unrecorded edition of a very popular collection...

    £1200

  12. PRESENT FOR THE YOUNG (A).

    London: Printed for The Religious Tract...

    [c. 1827]

    First edition. A finely illustrated anthology...

    £175

  13. [PRIMER.]

    Preces privatae, in studiosorum gratia[m]...

    London, William Seres, 1568.

    Second edition of this rare ‘private’...

    £4250

  14. [PSALMS.]

    Les Pseaumes de David, mis en Vers François,...

    Amsterdam, ‘aux dépens de l’Eglise...

    New edition of the metrical Psalms of the...

    £950

  15. [PSALMS.]

    Psalterium Davidis carmine redditum per...

    Paris, [(colophon:) Guillaume Morel for]...

    Seemingly unrecorded issue of the Psalms...

    £1250

  16. [PSALMS.]

    Les Pseaumes de David, mis en rime Françoise,...

    ‘Se vendent à Charenton, par Antoine...

    Charenton-printed French Psalms in a remarkable...

    £2750

  17. [PSALMS.]

    Psalmi Davidis regis et vatis inclyti,...

    Antwerp, [(colophon:) Jan Verwithagen...

    A collection of verse paraphrases of the...

    £975

  18. [PSALMS.]

    The whole Booke of Psalmes, collected into...

    London, printed by T. C[otes] for the...

    A very attractive pocket psalm book with...

    £2750

  19. [PSALMS; Basil WOODD, editor.]

    The Psalms of David, and other Portions...

    London, Watts & Bridgewaters, Rivingtons,...

    A pocket-sized Psalm- and prayerbook with...

    £2000

  20. PURSEY, Thomas.

    The last General Assembly of the Free Church...

    [Edinburgh, T. Pursey, 1900.]

    A photographic tour-de-force, assembling...

    £2000