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. BUDÉ, Guillaume.

    G. Budaei … Epistolarum latinarum lib....

    [Paris,] Jodocus Badius, February 1531.

    The first Badius combined edition of the...

    £5500

  2. BURNET, Gilbert.

    A Vindication of the Authority, Constitution,...

    Glasgow, Robert Sanders, 1673.

    One of three editions, all of the same...

    £500

  3. BURTON, John.

    Hophni et Phinees, sive impietas sacerdotum...

    Oxford, ‘e theatro Sheldoniano, impensis...

    First edition of a sermon on clerical impiety...

    £350

  4. CADOGAN, William Bromley.

    The Felicity of God’s Children, considered...

    Reading: Printed and Sold by Smart and...

    First edition, a funeral sermon by the...

    £75

  5. CAESAR, Gaius Julius.

    C. Julii Caesaris quae extant. Accuratissime...

    London, Jacob Tonson, 1712.

    First edition of the celebrated Tonson’s...

    £9500

  6. [CAESAR.]  RAMUS, Petrus (Pierre de la RAMÉE). 

    Liber de militia C. Julii Caesaris, cum...

    Frankfurt, heirs of Andreas Wechel, 1584. 

    An attractively bound copy of Ramus’s...

    £450

  7. CALLINI, Bartolommeo.

    Arrolandosi sotto le insegne di Gesù Cristo...

    Vicenza, Tipografia Paroni, 1802.

    A seemingly unrecorded sonnet celebrating...

    £350

  8. CALMET, Antoine Augustin.

    Commentaire litteral sur tous les livres...

    Paris, Pierre Emery, 1712.

    First edition of the commentary on the...

    £450

  9. [CAMBOUT, Sébastien Joseph du; John EVELYN, attributed translator].

    The moral Practice of the Jesuites. Demonstrated...

    London, Printed for Simon Miller, at the...

    First edition in English of La morale...

    £700

  10. CAMUS, Jean-Pierre.

    Traicté de la pauvreté evangelique. Par...

    ‘Besançon, chez Jean Thomas, à l’enseigne...

    Uncommon first edition of this polemical...

    £575

  11. [CANONS REGULAR OF THE LATERAN.]

    Regula et constitutiones Canonicorum Regularium...

    Rome, apud Paulum Bladum, 1592. 

    The most complete edition, rare, of the...

    £18500

  12. [CAPIZZI, Ignazio.]

    Lavoro della divina grazia in convertire...

    Naples, Salvadore Troisi, 1778.

    Very rare edition of this emblematic work...

    £950

  13. [CAPUCHINS.]

    Diploma conferring ‘privilegium maximum’.

    ‘Bojonii’, 22 October 1779.

    An attractive diploma issued by Erhard...

    £450

  14. CARLI, Paolo Francesco da Montecarlo.

    La Svinatura di Barbigi Mezzabarba (Paol...

    Campobasso, Stab. Tip. Del Progresso, 1878.

    Rare edition of a satire by poet and abbot...

    £150

  15. [CAROLS.]

    Noels et cantiques nouveaux, où l’on...

    Metz, Jean Antoine, 1732.

    Very rare collection of carols and canticles...

    £575

  16. CARO Y CEJUDO, Gerónimo Martín.

    Refranes y modos de hablar, castellanos...

    Madrid, Julián Izquierdo, 1675.

    First edition, the Heber–Chorley–Stirling Maxwell–de Guinzbourg...

    £1750

  17. CARTARI, Vincenzo.

    Le imagini con la spositione de i dei de...

    Venice, Francesco Marcolini, 1556.

    First edition of Cartari’s influential...

    £800

  18. [CARTHUSIANS. GUIGO DE CASTRO, compiler.]

    Repertorium statutoru[m] ordinis cartusiensis...

    Basel, Johann Amerbach, 1510.

    First printed edition of the Statutes of...

    £7500

  19. CASAL, Gaspar do.

    Axiomata christiana ex divinis scripturis...

    Coimbra, João da Barreira and João Alvares,...

    First edition of Gaspar do Casal’s major...

    £2500

  20. CASTELLESI, Adriano.

    Hadriani cardinalis de vera philosophia...

    Cologne, Melchior von Neuss, 1540.

    A fine sammelband of theological works,...

    £1750