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. LACTANTIUS.

    Opera.

    [Venice,] Vindelinus de Spira, 1472.

    Magnificent incunable edition of the works...

    £25000

  2. LACTANTIUS, Lucius Caelius Firmianus, et alii.

    Opera perquam accurate castigata: Graeco...

    [(Colophons:) Venice, Giovanni Tacuino...

    A closely read copy of Lactantius’s encyclopaedia...

    £2750

  3. LAKITS, György Zsigmond.

    Juris publici ecclesiastici pars generalis,...

    Venice, Giuseppe Orlandelli, 1790.

    Second Venice editions of two pro-Habsburg...

    £375

  4. LANDSBERG, Johannes Justus.

    Iohannis Iusti Lanspergii Bavari Carthusiani...

    Cologne, Melchior von Neuss, 1548.

    Later edition (first 1539) of paraphrases,...

    £950

  5. [LANSPERGER, Johannes Justus;] Serafino ACETI DE’ PORTI, translator.

    Pharetra divini amoris, tradotto in volgare...

    Venice, Paolo Gherardo [(colophon:) Comin...

    Third Italian edition, considerably enlarged,...

    £1500

  6. LA SERRE, Jean-Puget de.

    Grab-Statt der weltlichen Ergötzlichkeiten,...

    Regensburg, Johann Conrad Peetz und Bader,...

    First edition in German of Tombeau des...

    £375

  7. [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

  8. LE GROS, Nicolas.

    Meditations sur les epistres Catholiques...

    Paris, chez Savoye, 1754.

    First edition of this extensive work of...

    £1250

  9. LIPPOMANO, Luigi. 

    Espositioni volgare del reveren. M. Luigi...

    Venice, Girolamo Scoto, 1541.

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

    £450

  10. [LITURGY.]

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

    Paris, par la Compagnie des libraires...

    Uncommon edition of the offices for Holy...

    £1250

  11. [LITURGY.] Girolamo GIOVANNINI, editor.

    Officium hebdomadae sanctae, juxta formam...

    Venice, ‘ex typographia Balleoniana’, 1742.

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

    £275

  12. LOMBARDI, Giovanni Francesco.

    Oratio habita in synodo Tridentina die...

    Brescia, Lodovico Sabbio, [1561?].

    First edition of this sermon delivered...

    £3750

  13. LORICH, Gerhard.

    Institutio catholica fidei orthodoxae et...

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

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

    £1450

  14. LUDOLPH of Saxony.

    Vita Christi.

    Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 20 December 1478.

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

    £45000

  15. LUDOPHUS of Saxony. 

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

    [Lyons,] A. Vincent, [1542]. 

    Uncommon and significant edition of one...

    £2000

  16. MAGGI, Lorenzo. 

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

    Venice, Francesco Rampazetto, 1567.

    Very rare first edition of this collection...

    £500

  17. MAGNON, Jean. 

    Les heures du Chrestien, divisées en trois...

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

    First edition of this handsomely illustrated...

    £650

  18. MAILLARD, Olivier.

    Sermones de sanctis reverendi patris fratris...

    Cologne, Cornelius von Zierickzee, 30...

    Very rare edition of a collection of sermons...

    £1500

  19. [MARABOTTA, Cattaneo.] 

    Vita della serafica S. Caterina da Genova. 

    Genoa, Tipografia Frugoni, 1832. 

    Rare first edition thus, an attractive...

    £185

  20. [MARIAN DEVOTION.]

    Embroidered silk panel depicting the Virgin...

    [Netherlands, early eighteenth century?]

    A delightful silk panel, embroidered over...

    £600