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. [INDULGENCE.] 

    Letter of Indulgence (in Catalan),...

    [Lerida, Heinrich Botel, c. 1498.] 

    Extremely rare incunable indulgence in...

    £34000

  2. ABBEVILLE, Claude d’.

    Histoire de la mission des peres Capucins...

    Paris, François Huby, 1614.

    Second edition, enlarged and revised from...

    £30000

  3. LACTANTIUS.

    Opera.

    [Venice,] Vindelinus de Spira, 1472.

    Magnificent incunable edition of the works...

    £25000

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

    Summa de potestate ecclesiastica.

    Augsburg, [Johann Schüssler,] 6 March 1473.

    First edition of this highly important...

    £22500

  5. [GRADUAL.]

    Vast historiated initial ‘A’ cut from...

    Italy (Umbria), end of thirteenth century.

    A spectacular initial on the scale of a...

    £20000

  6. [CANONS REGULAR OF THE LATERAN.]

    Regula et constitutiones Canonicorum Regularium...

    Rome, apud Paulum Bladum, 1592. 

    The most complete edition, rare, of the...

    £18500

  7. ZARLINO, Gioseffo.

    Le Istitutioni harmoniche … nelle quali;...

    Venice, [Pietro da Fino], 1558.

    First edition, rare, of ‘arguably the...

    £15000

  8. [OXFORD UNIVERSITY.]

    Pietas Universitatis Oxoniensis in obitum...

    Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1761.

    First edition, one of fifty copies on large...

    £10000

  9. CAESAR, Gaius Julius.

    C. Julii Caesaris quae extant. Accuratissime...

    London, Jacob Tonson, 1712.

    First edition of the celebrated Tonson’s...

    £9500

  10. HURTADO, Eugenio, scribe.

    [Missal for feast days.]

    Madrid, 1827.

    An extraordinary and enormous liturgical...

    £9500

  11. MACROBIUS, Ambrosius Theodosius.

    Somnium Scipionis ex Ciceronis libro De...

    Venice, Filippo Pinzi, 29 October 1500.

    Sixth and last incunable edition of Macrobius,...

    £9500

  12. VINCENT OF LÉRINS.

    The Waie home to Christ and Truth leadinge...

    [London, Robert Caly, 22 October 1554].

    First edition in English, very rare, of...

    £9500

  13. THEOCRITUS et al.

    Theocriti aliorumque poetarum Idyllia....

    [Geneva], Henri Estienne, 1579.

    An outstanding volume uniting the Estienne...

    £9000

  14. ANTONIUS de Vercellis. 

    Sermones quadragesimales de XII mirabilibus...

    Venice, Johannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis,...

    A remarkable copy of the first edition...

    £8500

  15. POCOCKE, Richard. 

    A Description of the East, and some other...

    ...

    First edition, demy folio issue. A successful...

    £8000

  16. LUCIAN of Samosata.

    Opera graece et latine ad editionem Tiberii...

    Zweibrücken, Typographia Societatis,...

    Renouard’s copy of the Bipontine Lucian,...

    £8000

  17. VORAGINE, Jacobus de.

    Lombardica historia que a plerisque aurea...

    Strasbourg, [Georg Husner,] 1502.

    Jacobus de Voragine’s influential Legenda...

    £8000

  18. [CARTHUSIANS. GUIGO DE CASTRO, compiler.]

    Repertorium statutoru[m] ordinis cartusiensis...

    Basel, Johann Amerbach, 1510.

    First printed edition of the Statutes of...

    £7500

  19. [ANTIPHONAL.]

    Very large historiated initial ‘H’...

    Italy (Siena), c. 1300.

    A very fine large initial painted in a...

    £6750

  20. MEFFRET, Johann.

    Sermones Meffreth alias Ortulus regine...

    [Basel, Nicolaus Kesler, not after 1485.]

    A volume of sermons with early English...

    £6500