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.
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ROTH, Henry.
Call it Sleep.
London, Michael Joseph, 1963.
First UK edition of Roth’s precocious...
£250
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ROTHSCHILD, Boaz Raphael.
[Sefer oniyah b’lev yam … Chelek rishon]....
Fürth, Chaim ben Zvi Hirsch, 1766.
First part of the first and only edition...
£450
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[ROUEN.]
L’Office de Saint Godard, archevesque...
Rouen, ‘chez la veuve de Jacq. Jos. Le...
Rare office for the feast of St Gildard...
£575
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ROUGEMONT, François de; [Sebastião de MAGALHÃES, translator].
Relacam do estado politico e espiritual...
Lisbon, Joao da Costa, 1672.
First edition in any language of the Dutch...
£2500
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RYDER, Joseph.
‘Remarks and Observations from the written...
[20 June 1731 to 19 June 1732, copied 1733].
A fascinating devotional manuscript, comprising,...
£1650
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SAAVEDRA FAJARDO, Diego de.
Idea de un Principe politico christiano,...
Valencia, heirs of Crisóstomo Garriz,...
Fourth Valencian edition of ‘the most...
£750
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SAINT-FRANÇOIS, Hugues de.
Les actions religieuses et exercices de...
Angers, Pierre Avril, 1648.
A rare manual of spiritual instruction...
£1250
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SALLUST.
C. Sallustius Crispus cum veterum Historicorum...
Leiden, ex officina Elzeviriana, 1634.
The first small format Elzevir printing...
£950
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SALLUST.
C. Crispi Sallustii opera omnia quae exstant,...
Frankfurt, Zacharias Palthenius for Jonas...
The works of Sallust edited by the philologist...
£1500
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SALLUST.
Caii Sallustii Crispi quae extant.
London, James Tonson and John Watts, 1713.
First Maittaire edition. The French-born...
£300
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SAUBERT, Johann.
Miracula Augustanae Confessionis, [engraved...
[Nuremberg,] Wolffgang Endter, 1631.
First editions of three works of Lutheran...
£2850
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[SAVONAROLA, Girolamo.] Ambrogio Caterino POLITI.
Discorso … contra la dottrina, et le...
Venice, Giolito, 1548.
First edition of a condemnation of Savonarola’s...
£1500
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[SAVOY-CARIGNAN, Maria Vittoria Francesca, Princess of.]
Recueil de prières et de pratiques très...
[Paris, Imprimerie Royale], 1735.
First and only edition of this rare prayerbook,...
£2500
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SBRUGLIO, Riccardo.
Richardi Sbrulii equitis Foroiuliani Cesareiq[ue]...
[(Colophon:) Augsburg, Hans von Erfurt, 1519.]
First edition, very rare, of these neo-Latin...
£1800
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SCALVO, Bartolomeo.
Rosariae preces ad gloriosam Dei genitricem...
Milan, Pacificus Pontius, 1569.
First edition of this Marian book of prayers...
£3500
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SCHEFFER, Johannes Gerhard.
Constantini Opelii de fabrica triremium...
‘Eleuteropoli’ [Freistadt?], 1672.
First edition of this treatise on the ancient...
£875
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SCHOPPER, Hartmann, translator.
Speculum vitae aulicae. De admirabili fallacia...
Frankfurt, [(colophon:) Nikolaus Basse], 1595.
Fifth and final edition of the first Latin...
£850
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SCLATER, William.
An Exposition with Notes upon the first...
London, printed for I. Parker and are...
An attractive copy of these best-selling...
£950
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[SCOTT, Walter, Sir.]
Ivanhoe; A Romance. By “The Author of...
Edinburgh, [James Ballantyne & Co.] for...
Stated second edition but in fact a third...
£375
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SENECA the Younger, and SENECA the Rhetorician.
L. Annaei Senecae philosophi opera omnia;...
Leiden, [Bonaventure & Abraham] Elzevir,...
First Elzevir edition of the moral works...
£500