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. BEDFORDSHIRE – ARLESEY.

    Charter of William Hoye of Arlesey (‘Auricheseya’)...

    Bedfordshire, 1st half of 13th century.

    Witnessed by Roger Burnard, William Rixpaud,...

    £1400

  2. [GRADUAL.]

    Vast historiated initial ‘A’ cut from...

    Italy (Umbria), end of thirteenth century.

    A spectacular initial on the scale of a...

    £20000

  3. [HOSPICE SAINT-NICOLAS, METZ.]

    Deed granting land to the hospice.

    Metz, 5 May 1464.

    A significant document recording the grant...

    £450

  4. BALBUS, Johannes.

    Catholicon.

    [Strasbourg, The R-Printer (Adolf Rusch),...

    Third edition of the earliest printed lexicon,...

    £65000

  5. LACTANTIUS.

    Opera.

    [Venice,] Vindelinus de Spira, 1472.

    Magnificent incunable edition of the works...

    £25000

  6. AUGUSTINUS TRIUMPHUS [i.e. AUGUSTINUS de Ancona].  

    Summa de potestate ecclesiastica.

    Augsburg, [Johann Schüssler,] 6 March 1473.

    First edition of this highly important...

    £22500

  7. GERSON, Johannes [Pseudo-].

    Donatus [moralisatus].

    [Nuremberg, Friedrich Creussner, c. 1475.]

    Early editions of two rare devotional tracts...

    £8500

  8. THOMAS of Cantimpré.

    Bonum universale de proprietatibus apum.

    [Cologne, Johann Koelhoff, the Elder,...

    Second edition of this manual of moral...

    £6000

  9. URSINIS, Bartholomaeus de.

    [Quadragesimale quod dicitur Gratia Dei.]

    [Naples, Francesco del Tuppo for Bernardinus...

    First and only edition, a handsome, wide-margined...

    £27500

  10. [SERMONS.]

    [Sermones sensati.]

    [(Colophon:) Gouda, Gerard Leeu, 20 February...

    First and only incunable edition of a rare...

    £8500

  11. [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

  12. MEFFRET, Johann.

    Sermones Meffreth alias Ortulus regine...

    [Basel, Nicolaus Kesler, not after 1485.]

    A volume of sermons with early English...

    £6500

  13. [PSALTER.] [BRUNO, Archbishop of Würzburg, editor.]

    Psalterium.

    [Würzburg, Georg Reyser, c. 1488–1489.]

    First edition of the Psalter with the commentary...

    £24000

  14. [JEROME, Saint.]

    Obitus beati iheromini.

    [Delft, Jacob Jacobszoon van der Meer,...

    Rare incunable edition (first printed in...

    £22500

  15. THOMAS AQUINAS; Antonius PIZAMANUS, editor.

    Opuscula [with a life of St Thomas].

    Venice, Hermannus Liechtenstein, 7 September...

    First collected edition of seventy-one...

    £3750

  16. NATALI, Pietro de’; Antonio VERLO, editor.

    Catalogus sanctorum et gestorum eorum.

    Vicenza, Henricus de Sancto Ursio, Zenus,...

    First edition of a comprehensive encyclopaedia...

    £6250

  17. FERRER, Vincent, Saint.

    Sermones … de tempore pars hiemalis [– de...

    Strasbourg, [Printer of the 1483 Jordanus...

    A substantial volume of sermons by the...

    £4500

  18. [ANTHOLOGIA GRAECA PLANUDEA.]

    [Edited by Janus Lascaris.]

    [Florence, Lorenzo di Francesco de Alopa,...

    Editio princeps, a beautiful printing...

    £16500

  19. GAZA, Theodorus.

    Grammatica introductiva; De mensibus; Apollonius...

    [(Colophon:) Venice, Aldus Manutius, 25...

    A beautiful example of early Greek printing,...

    £45000

  20. VORAGINE, Jacobus de.

    Sermones quadragesimales [– de tempore...

    [(Colophons:) Venice, Simon de Luere for...

    An annotated copy of Jacobus de Voragine’s...

    £3250