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. BÈZE, Théodore de.

    Poemata varia: Sylvae, Elegiae, Epitaphia,...

    Geneva, Jacques Stoer, 1614.

    One of the two ‘most complete’ (Gardy)...

    £1250

  2. [BIBLE.]

    Τα Βιβλια, τουτεστιν,...

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

    First edition printed in Russia of the...

    £1500

  3. [BIBLE.]

    Erläuterte Bibel mit Fragen, das ist,...

    Altdorf, Joh. Adam Hessel for Ernst Friderich...

    A German Bible with extensive apparatus,...

    £2250

  4. [BIBLE.]

    The Holy Bible, containing the Old and...

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

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

    £5250

  5. BIBLE, in Latin.

    Genesis to Apocalypse, with the prologues...

    France (Paris), mid-thirteenth century.

    A handsome example of a thirteenth-century...

    £120000

  6. [BIBLE – OLD TESTAMENT.]

    Los cinco libros de la ley divina. De nuevo...

    Amsterdam, ‘en casa, y a costa de Selomoh...

    An uncommon and handsomely produced Pentateuch...

    £1850

  7. [BIBLE – OLD TESTAMENT and APOCRYPHA, Greek; Johann LONITZER, editor.]

    Της θειας γραφης παλαιας...

    Strasbourg, Wolfgang Köpfel, 1526.

    The first edition of the Old Testament...

    £8500

  8. BIEL, Gabriel.

    Sacri canonis Missae lucidiss. expositio...

    Brescia, Pietro and Tommaso Bozzola, 1576.

    Brescia edition of an exposition of the...

    £350

  9. [BIGG-WITHER.]

    The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament...

    London, Bonham Norton and John Bill, 1628.

    An attractive octavo Bible, with the apocrypha,...

    £8750

  10. BISSEL, Johannes.

    Illustrium ab orbe condito ruinarum decades...

    Würzburg, ‘typis viduae Walderi’, [1762].

    Scarce later edition of the first part...

    £450

  11. BLANCHON, Jacques.

    Iacobi Blanchoni Ucessiensis adversus Ludovicum...

    Lyons, Jean de Tournes, 1550.

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

    £950

  12. BOCCHI, Achille.

    Symbolicarum quaestionum, de universo genere,...

    Bologna, Società Tipografica Bolognese, 1574.

    Second edition (first 1555) of this notable...

    £1950

  13. BOETHIUS; 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

  14. [BOIS, Paul.]

    La vie des premieres religieuses Capucines...

    Marseille, de l’imprimerie de Dominique...

    Scarce first edition of a compendium of...

    £375

  15. [BOIS-SEIGNEUR-ISAAC.]

    Histoire memorable et digne de foy, du...

    Mons, Charles Michel, 1593.

    First and only edition, very rare, of an...

    £1250

  16. [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

  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, Use of Passau.]

    Breviarium s[ecundu]m chorum alme Ecclesie...

    [(Colophon:) Venice, Petrus Liechtenstein...

    A rare Passau breviary with numerous woodcut...

    £4500