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. MUSGRAVE, Samuel.

    Two Dissertations. I. On the Graecian...

    London, printed by J. Nichols, 1782.

    First edition of this work by the classical...

    £450

  2. PACIFICUS, Sacerdos.

    Two letters signed regarding religious...

    [?Hong Kong, 1846.]

    Two interesting letters referring to paintings...

    £1100

  3. MARLIANI, Bartolomeo.

    Urbis Romae topographia.

    Rome, Valerio & Luigi Dorico, September 1544.

    First illustrated edition (third overall),...

    £5500

  4. VALERIUS MAXIMUS, Gaius.

    Valerii Maximi dictorum, & factorum memorabilium...

    [(Colophon:) Sélestat, Lazarus Schürer,...

    Very rare edition of Valerius Maximus printed...

    £2250

  5. [GRADUAL.]

    Vast historiated initial ‘A’ cut from...

    Italy (Umbria), end of thirteenth century.

    A spectacular initial on the scale of a...

    £20000

  6. [ANTIPHONAL.]

    Very large historiated initial ‘H’...

    Italy (Siena), c. 1300.

    A very fine large initial painted in a...

    £6750

  7. [DUQUESNE, Arnaud-Bernard d’Icard.]

    Vie de la vénérable mère Catherine de...

    Nancy, Claude-Sigisbert Lamort; Paris,...

    Uncommon biography of the French nun Mechtilde...

    £650

  8. BURNET, Gilbert.

    A Vindication of the Authority, Constitution,...

    Glasgow, Robert Sanders, 1673.

    One of three editions, all of the same...

    £500

  9. [MARABOTTA, Cattaneo.] 

    Vita della serafica S. Caterina da Genova. 

    Genoa, Tipografia Frugoni, 1832. 

    Rare first edition thus, an attractive...

    £185

  10. SUETONIUS Tranquillus, Gaius, and HERODIAN OF ANTIOCH.

    Vita di duodeci imperatori… nuovamente...

    Venice, Venturino di Rossinelli [for Curzio...

    Annotated copy of a scarce edition of this...

    £1250

  11. 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

  12. [WALLET.]

    Wallet with manuscript and printed waste.

    France, c. 1790.

    An attractive late eighteenth-century wallet...

    £950

  13. TO THE PARLIAMENT OF ENGLAND,

    who are in Place to do Justice, and to...

    London, Printed for Thomas Simmons …, 1659.

    First edition, rare, a list of Quaker victims...

    £300

  14. [PSALMS.]

    The whole Booke of Psalmes, collected into...

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

    A very attractive pocket psalm book with...

    £2750

  15. RICH, Jeremiah.

    The Whole Book of Psalms in Meter. According...

    London, ‘Printed and are sold by Samuel...

    First edition, the issue with Samuel Botley...

    £4250

  16. [BIBLE.]

    Τα Βιβλια, τουτεστιν,...

    Moscow, the Holy Synod Press for the Russian...

    First edition printed in Russia of the...

    £1500

  17. SOPHOCLES; Adrien TURNÈBE, editor.

    Τραγωδιαι. Αιαξ μαστιγοφορος....

    Paris, Adrien Turnèbe, 1553 [(colophon:)...

    A wide-margined copy of Sophocles in Greek...

    £1850