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. LE GROS, Nicolas.

    Meditations sur les epistres Catholiques...

    Paris, chez Savoye, 1754.

    First edition of this extensive work of...

    £1250

  2. LIPPOMANO, Luigi. 

    Espositioni volgare del reveren. M. Luigi...

    Venice, Girolamo Scoto, 1541.

    First edition of this treatise on the Credo,...

    £450

  3. [LITURGY.]

    L’Office de la Semaine Sainte, selon...

    Paris, par la Compagnie des libraires...

    Uncommon edition of the offices for Holy...

    £1250

  4. [LITURGY.] Girolamo GIOVANNINI, editor.

    Officium hebdomadae sanctae, juxta formam...

    Venice, ‘ex typographia Balleoniana’, 1742.

    Very rare small-format edition of the Offices...

    £275

  5. LOMBARDI, Giovanni Francesco.

    Oratio habita in synodo Tridentina die...

    Brescia, Lodovico Sabbio, [1561?].

    First edition of this sermon delivered...

    £3750

  6. LORICH, Gerhard.

    Institutio catholica fidei orthodoxae et...

    [Frankfurt am Main], [(colophon:) Christian...

    First editions of a pair of Reformation-era...

    £1450

  7. LUDOLPH of Saxony.

    Vita Christi.

    Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 20 December 1478.

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

    £45000

  8. LUDOPHUS of Saxony. 

    In Psal. David, diligentiss. Simul, &...

    [Lyons,] A. Vincent, [1542]. 

    Uncommon and significant edition of one...

    £2000

  9. MAGGI, Lorenzo. 

    I sacri hinni, che si leggono in tutto...

    Venice, Francesco Rampazetto, 1567.

    Very rare first edition of this collection...

    £500

  10. MAGNON, Jean. 

    Les heures du Chrestien, divisées en trois...

    Paris, se vendent chez l’autheur …...

    First edition of this handsomely illustrated...

    £650

  11. [MARABOTTA, Cattaneo.] 

    Vita della serafica S. Caterina da Genova. 

    Genoa, Tipografia Frugoni, 1832. 

    Rare first edition thus, an attractive...

    £185

  12. [MARIAN DEVOTION.]

    Embroidered silk panel depicting the Virgin...

    [Netherlands, early eighteenth century?]

    A delightful silk panel, embroidered over...

    £600

  13. MARKISH, Peretz Davidovich.

    Rubezh. Izbrannye stikhi [Threshold....

    [Selected poems]. Moscow, Goslitizdat, 1933.

    First edition in Russian of the first book...

    £1800

  14. [MASCHERANA, Girolamo.]

    Concordia tra la società e la religione...

    Milan, Cesare Orena nella stamperia Malatesta,...

    Rare second edition, printed in the same...

    £375

  15. [MASS.]

    Cerimonie piu’ notabili della messa privata;...

    Turin, Gianfranco Mairesse, 1739.

    An apparently unrecorded edition of...

    £300

  16. MAURIZI, Maria Luisa.

    Morali e divote riflessioni a tutti utilissime...

    Rome, Tipografia della Pia Unione alle...

    Uncommon first edition of this collection...

    £150

  17. MAXIMUS the Confessor; Jean PICOT, translator.

    Sanctissimi patris magistrique, Maximi,...

    [(Colophon:) Paris,] Guillaume Morel, [1560].

    First edition of Jean Picot’s Latin translation...

    £850

  18. MEFFRET, Johann.

    Sermones Meffreth alias Ortulus regine...

    [Basel, Nicolaus Kesler, not after 1485.]

    A volume of sermons with early English...

    £6500

  19. MELECRINIS, Maria Teresa. 

    Le voci del cuore a Maria Teresa Melecrinis...

    Naples, stamperia dell' Iride, 1846. 

    Very rare collection of odes and sonnets...

    £175

  20. [MILAN, province of.]

    Ordo admittendi virgines ad monasterii...

    Milan, Tamburini and Valdoni, 1843.

    Scarce edition of this set of rites for...

    £200