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. BELLINTANI, Mattia. 

    Quattro prediche dell’istesso R. P. F. Mattia...

    Brescia, Vincenzo Sabbio, 1598. 

    Very rare collection of sermons by the...

    £750

  2. BERNARD of Clairvaux.

    Opera omnia, tam quae vere germana illius...

    Paris, [Nicolas Bruslé for] Sébastien...

    A rare Parisian edition of the works of...

    £3750

  3. BESSE, Pierre de.

    Conceptions theologiques sur tous les dimanches...

    Paris, Nicolas du Fossé, 1609.

    Very rare editions of two works by the...

    £1500

  4. BIANCHINI, Giuseppe.

    Enarratio pseudo-Athanasiana in symbolum...

    Verona, Pierantonio Berno, 1732.

    First edition, presented by the author,...

    £675

  5. [BIBLE.]

    Τα Βιβλια, τουτεστιν,...

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

    First edition printed in Russia of the...

    £1500

  6. [BIBLE.]

    Biblia sacra vulgatae editionis Sixti Quinti...

    Antwerp, Jan Moretus ‘ex officina Plantiniana’,...

    Plantin edition of the Clementine Vulgate,...

    £1250

  7. [BIBLE.]

    The Holy Bible, containing the Old and...

    Oxford, T. Wright and W. Gill, 1769.

    First quarto edition of the Oxford ‘standard’...

    £5250

  8. [BIBLE, New Testament.]

    Pauli Apostoli epistolae … Epistolae...

    Brescia, Damiano and Giacomo Filippo Turlino,...

    Scarce Brescia edition of the Epistles...

    £2500

  9. BIEL, Gabriel.

    Sacri canonis Missae lucidiss. expositio...

    Brescia, Pietro and Tommaso Bozzola, 1576.

    Brescia edition of an exposition of the...

    £350

  10. BLANCHON, Jacques.

    Iacobi Blanchoni Ucessiensis adversus Ludovicum...

    Lyons, Jean de Tournes, 1550.

    First edition of a very rare work of sixteenth-century...

    £950

  11. BOCCACCIO, Giovanni.

    Philocholo opera elegantissima de lo excellente...

    [(Colophon:) Milan, [Alessandro Minuziano],...

    An uncommon edition of Boccaccio’s first...

    £950

  12. BOETHIUS, Severinus; Richard GRAHAM, Viscount Preston, translator.

    Of the Consolation of Philosophy. In five...

    London, J. D. for Awnsham and John Churchill,...

    First edition of this translation by the...

    £950

  13. [BOIS, Paul.]

    La vie des premieres religieuses Capucines...

    Marseille, de l’imprimerie de Dominique...

    Scarce first edition of a compendium of...

    £375

  14. BOLZANIO, Urbano or URBANUS BELLUNENSIS.

    Institutionum in linguam Graecam grammaticarum,...

    Basel, Johann Walder, September 1535.

    Basel edition of this popular grammar commissioned...

    £2000

  15. [BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER.]

    La Liturgie. C’est a dire, le formulaire...

    A Londres, pour Jean Dunmore & Octavien...

    First edition of this translation, printed...

    £750

  16. BOOK OF HOURS,

    in Latin, from the Hours of the Virgin...

    Flanders or northern France, early 14th...

    An exquisite leaf from an exceptionally...

    £1800

  17. [BOUCHET, Jean.]

    Les triu[m]phes de la noble et amoureuse...

    Paris, Estienne Caveiller for Pierre Sergent,...

    Unrecorded issue of Jean Bouchet’s contemplative...

    £4500

  18. BOUTMY, C.

    ‘Exercitium quotidianum dedicatum perillustri...

    [Belgium, 1760.]

    An attractively bound unpublished devotional...

    £450

  19. [BOUTREUX D’ESTIAU, Jacques de.]

    De la puissance roialle sur la police de...

    Paris, Pierre Durand, 1625.

    A pair of uncommon works defending the...

    £950

  20. [BREVIARY.]

    Sarum Breviary, in Latin.

    England, first quarter of fifteenth century.

    A fragment of twenty-one leaves from a...

    £4250