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. COSTER, François. 

    Piarum et Christ. institutionum libri...

    Douai, Jean Bogard, 1582. 

    Very rare Douai edition of this devotional...

    £675

  2. [CRIMEAN WAR.]

    Les militaires chrétiens a la guerre d’orient....

    Versailles, Beau jeune, [1856].

    First and only edition, rare, of this unusual...

    £375

  3. CURTIUS RUFUS, Quintus.

    De rebus gestis Alexandri Magni regis Macedonum...

    Basel, Hieronymus Froben and Nicolaus...

    Handsome folio edition of Curtius Rufus’...

    £2000

  4. CYPRIAN.

    D. Caecilii Cypriani episcopi Carthaginiensis,...

    Paris, Guillaume Des Bois, 1564.

    An attractive edition of the works of Cyprian...

    £975

  5. CYPRIAN, Saint; Desiderius ERASMUS, editor.

    Opera [– Alter tomus operum].

    Lyons, Sébastien Gryphe, 1550.

    A richly annotated copy of the works of...

    £1800

  6. DARRÉ, G.G.

    ‘Conferences diaconales données par...

    Auch, 1864.

    An attractively written manuscript of Abbé...

    £200

  7. DELL’UVA, Benedetto.

    Le vergini prudenti.

    Florence, Bartolomeo Sermartelli, 1582.

    First editions of three religious poems...

    £650

  8. DE LUCA, Giovanni Battista. 

    Il Cardinale della S.R. Chiesa pratico...

    Rome, nella stamperia della Reverenda...

    Scarce first edition of this thorough work...

    £300

  9. DENISSE, Nicolas.

    Divinis humanisq[ue] dignu[m] conspectibus...

    Rouen, Martin Morin, 15 February 1506 [1507].

    Rare edition of the Speculum mortalium...

    £1650

  10. [DEVOTION.]

    Meditation et preire du jeusne, seigneur...

    Se vend à Charenton, par Pierre Auvray,...

    First edition, extremely rare, of a prayer...

    £850

  11. DIODORUS Siculus.

    Bibliothecae historicae libri XV. Hoc est,...

    Basel, Heinrich Petri, August 1559.

    Important edition, the first to be overseen...

    £2500

  12. DIOGENES LAERTIUS; Henri ESTIENNE, editor.

    Περι βιων, δογματων και...

    [Geneva], Henri Estienne, 1570.

    First Estienne edition of The Lives...

    £850

  13. DIONYSIUS of Halicarnassus.

    Antiquitatum Rom. libri XI. Ab Aemylio...

    Geneva, Jacob Stoer, 1614.

    A rare pocket-sized edition of Dionysius...

    £450

  14. DOD, John, attributed.

    A Sermon on Malt. [S.l., s.n., c. 1840].

    [c. 1840].

    A seemingly unrecorded printing of the...

    £875

  15. [DOMINICAN NUNS.]

    Regola e costituzioni delle suore di S....

    Rome, Bernardo Morini, 1853.

    Very rare first edition thus of the regulations...

    £250

  16. DOMINICUS DE FLANDRIA.

    Dominici de Flandria ordinis predicator[um]...

    Venice, Giorgio Arrivabene for the heirs...

    Scarce early editions of two Aristotelian...

    £3000

  17. DONI, Anton Francesco.

    Mondi celesti, terrestri, et infernali,...

    Venice, Domenico Farri, 1567.

    A handsome copy of the second edition of...

    £850

  18. [DOVES PRESS.] 

    Pervigilium Veneris. 

    Hammersmith, ‘printed by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson...

    One of 150 copies on paper of the elusive...

    £950

  19. DRYDEN, John.

    Religio Laici or a Layman’s Faith. A Poem …

    London, Printed for Jacob Tonson … 1683.

    First edition, second issue (with a few...

    £400

  20. [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