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. ABBIATE FORIERI, Matteo.

    La Colonna di chiesa santa. Panegirico...

    Milan, Lodovico Monza, 1660.

    Very rare panegyric given at the Church...

    £175

  2. ‘ABRAHAM a Sancta Clara’ [pseud. Johann Ulrich MEGERLE].

    Coraggio e viltà, l’uno nella virtù,...

    Trento, Giovanni Parone, 1717.

    Scarce first and only Italian edition of...

    £1850

  3. ACQUAVIVA, Claudio.

    Meditationes in Psalmum XLIV, & CXVIII.

    Rome, Bartolomeo Zanetti, 1616.

    First edition of these Jesuit meditations...

    £1550

  4. ADRICHEM, Christian van; Francesco BALDELLI, translator.

    Gerusalemme e suoi dintorni ai tempi di...

    Genoa, Tipografia arcivescovile, 1882.

    Scarce first edition thus of Baldelli’s...

    £200

  5. [ADVENT.]

    Praeparatio ad nativitatem Domini Nostri...

    Turin, Ignazio Soffietti, [c. 1790].

    An extremely rare short liturgical text...

    £475

  6. AESOP.

    Les fables d’Ésope, mises en françois,...

    Lyon, Amable Leroy, 1809.

    An illustrated Lyon schoolboy edition of...

    £250

  7. AESOP.

    Les fables et la vie d’Ésope, composée...

    Caen, Pierre-Théodore Chalopin, [between...

    An uncommon provincial edition of Aesop’s...

    £250

  8. AESOP; Augustin LEGRAND, illustrator.

    Ésope en bel humeur, ou fables d’Ésope,...

    Paris, Batilliot frères, [c. 1795–1800].

    A French verse Aesop to be sung to popular...

    £950

  9. AESOP, et al.; [George STEWART, editor].

    Selectiores Aesopi Phrygis fabulae, et...

    Edinburgh, Tho. Ruddiman for George Stewart,...

    First edition thus, scarce, a Scottish...

    £375

  10. ALAMANNI, Luigi.

    Opere toscane.

    [(Colophon:) Florence, [Bernardo Giunta],...

    First Florentine edition of this collection...

    £650

  11. ALBERTI, Leon Battista.

    El Momo. La moral e muy graciosa historia...

    Alcalá de Henares, Joan Mey Flandro, 1553.

    First edition in Spanish of Alberti’s...

    £3800

  12. [ALBUM.]

    The Conversational Album. For recreative...

    [and booksellers in Birmingham, Brighton,...

    An amusing late-Victorian book of printed...

    £1500

  13. ALCIATI, Andrea.

    Les emblemes … mis en rime francoyse...

    Paris, Chrestien Wechel, 1539.

    Third edition of Jean Lefevre’s French...

    £1750

  14. ALCIATI, Andrea; Claude MIGNAULT, editor; Fédéric MOREL.

    Omnia … emblemata, cum commentariis,...

    Paris, Jean Richer for François Gueffier,...

    The final Paris printing of Mignault’s...

    £850

  15. [ALEXANDER VII, Pope.]

    Vero e pieno ragguaglio delle ceremonie...

    Rome and Florence, nella stamperia di...

    Very rare first(?) edition of this detailed...

    £450

  16. [ALMANACK.]

    Les étrennes à la rose, ou le rosier...

    Paris, Janet, [1804?].

    A charming literary almanack, or ‘rosebush...

    £2500

  17. [ALMANACK.]

    Étrennes mignones [sic], curieuses et...

    Paris, Claude-Jacques-Charles [Durand]...

    A very rare Parisian almanack for 1775,...

    £1500

  18. [ALMANACK.]

    London Almanack for the Year of Christ 1785.

    [London,] Printed for the Company of Stationers,...

    A very attractive miniature London Almanack...

    £950

  19. [ALMANACK.]

    Le triomphe de la vertu. Sujets tirés...

    Paris, Janet, [1814].

    A very rare biblical almanack for 1814...

    £300

  20. [ALMANACK.]

    Les perfidies supposées ou les médisances...

    Paris, Janet, ‘Successeur du Sr...

    A seemingly unrecorded almanack for 1800,...

    £1450