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. [CHARLES II.]

    RIVET, Jean. ‘Le favory du Ciel ou Meditation...

    [Caussade en Quercy, 1664.]

    A fascinating manuscript meditation on...

    £1850

  2. [CHARTONNET, Antoine-François.] 

    Considerations sur les devoirs des personnes...

    Paris, chez Edme Couterot, 1695. 

    Rare first edition of this religious manual...

    £275

  3. CHEKE, John, Sir, and Stephen [GARDINER], Bishop of Winchester.

    De pronuntiatione graecae potissimum linguae...

    Basel, Nikolaus Episcopius the younger, 1555.

    First edition of this collection of letters...

    £950

  4. CHEVALIER, André-Joseph, professor; A.J. BERENTS, compiler.

    ‘Tractatus De Fide, Spe et Charitate...

    [Douai, 9 March–4 August] 1787.

    A manuscript treatise concerning the three...

    £375

  5. [CHINA.]

    Business report written to a Mr Luo by...

    [China], 咸豐壬子年 [1852].

    An interesting mid-nineteenth-century report...

    £750

  6. [CHOISY, François Timoléon, Abbé de.]

    Journal ou suite de voyage de Siam. En...

    Amsterdam, Pierre Mortier, 1687.

    Amsterdam edition, issued the same year...

    £300

  7. CHRYSOSTOM, John. 

    [Opera: Homeliae.]  Que in secundo Ioannis...

    Venice, Stagnino & de Gregoriis, 1503. 

    First edition of Chrysostom’s Opera...

    £2800

  8. CHRYSOSTOM, John.

    [Opera] Que in secondo volumine continentur...

    [Venice, Bernardino Stagnino and Gregorio...

    The second volume of the first collected...

    £2500

  9. [CHURCH OF ENGLAND.]

    The New Weeks Preparation for a worthy...

    London, printed from the edition of the...

    An attractive copy of two later editions...

    £250

  10. CICERO, Marcus Tullius.

    Orationum pars I. Cum correctionibus P. Manutii,...

    Venice, ‘ex bibliotheca Aldina’, 1570.

    An unusual example of a white calf German...

    £1850

  11. CICERO, Marcus Tullius.

    M. T. Ciceronis orationes Philippicae...

    Paris, Jean Loys, 1544.

    Extremely rare edition of Cicero’s Philippics...

    £2250

  12. CICERO, Marcus Tullius.

    De philosophia tomus primus.

    Lyon, Sébastien Gryphe, 1546.

    A small format Lyon edition of Cicero,...

    £300

  13. CIGAULD, Vincent.

    Allegationes Vincentii … iudicis ordinarii...

    (Colophon:) Paris, Jean Frellon, 23 December...

    Extremely rare first edition of this legal...

    £2500

  14. CLAUDIANUS, Claudius.

    Claudii Claudiani Alexandrini, poetae illustriss. quotquot...

    Paris, Simon de Colines, 1530.

    First Colines edition of the major works...

    £850

  15. CLAUDIANUS, Claudius; Tommaso MEDINA, translator.

    Il ratto di Proserpina di Claudio Claudiano...

    Brescia, Bettoni, 1804.

    Very rare first edition of a translation...

    £650

  16. CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA (Titus Flavius CLEMENS); Gentian HERVET, translator.

    Omnia opera.

    Paris, Sebastien Nivelle, 1572.

    A thoroughly annotated copy of this early...

    £4750

  17. [COMMON PRAYER.] 

    The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration...

    London, Millar Ritchie for J. Good and...

    A splendid copy of the Good and Harding...

    £1850

  18. [COMMON PRAYER.]

    The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration...

    London & Glasgow, Collins’ Clear-Type...

    A George V Common Prayer and hymnal, uniformly...

    £275

  19. CONTI, Natale.

    Mythologiae, sive explicationis fabularum,...

    Frankfurt, the heirs of Andreas Wechel, 1584.

    Scarce Frankfurt edition of the Mythologiae...

    £950

  20. CORTÈS, Gioacchino. 

    Dissertazione anti-Bolgeniana sopra la...

    Rome, Salomoni, 1793. 

    First edition of this response to and attempted...

    £450