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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[BASKERVILLE PRESS.]
The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration...
Third and final edition of Baskerville’s...
£1200
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NIXON, Howard M.
Broxbourne Library: Styles and Designs...
London, Maggs Brothers for the Broxbourne...
First edition, one of three hundred copies,...
£875
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[ALMANACK.]
Étrennes mignones [sic], curieuses et...
Paris, Claude-Jacques-Charles [Durand]...
A very rare Parisian almanack for 1775,...
£1500
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[EMBROIDERED BINDING.]
Etrennes mignonnes, pour l’an de grace...
Liège, Everard Kints, [1753].
A charming almanack for 1753 printed in...
£400
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[BIBLE.]
The Holy Bible, containing the Old and...
Oxford, T. Wright and W. Gill, 1769.
First quarto edition of the Oxford ‘standard’...
£5250
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CUJAS, Jacques.
Iacobi Cuiacii celeberrimi I. C. recitationes...
Speyer, Bernhard Albin, 1594.
First edition of these commentaries on...
£750
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[ALMANACK.]
Les étrennes à la rose, ou le rosier...
Paris, Janet, [1804?].
A charming literary almanack, or ‘rosebush...
£2500
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[CRIMEAN WAR.]
Les militaires chrétiens a la guerre d’orient....
Versailles, Beau jeune, [1856].
First and only edition, rare, of this unusual...
£375
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[ALMANACK.]
Les perfidies supposées ou les médisances...
Paris, Janet, ‘Successeur du Sr...
A seemingly unrecorded almanack for 1800,...
£1450
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[PSALMS.]
Les Pseaumes de David, mis en Vers François,...
Amsterdam, ‘aux dépens de l’Eglise...
New edition of the metrical Psalms of the...
£950
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MYERS, Robin, Michael HARRIS, and Giles MANDELBROTE (eds).
Lives in Book History: Changing Contours...
Leicester, Garendon Press, 2022.
‘This volume has grown out of one event...
£35
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[ALMANACK.]
London Almanack for the Year of Christ 1785.
[London,] Printed for the Company of Stationers,...
A very attractive miniature London Almanack...
£950
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PITOU, Louis-Ange.
L’Urne des Stuarts et des Bourbons, ou...
Paris, [Beraud for] L.A. Pitou, 31 August...
First and only surviving edition of this...
£650
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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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HURTADO, Eugenio, scribe.
[Missal for feast days.]
Madrid, 1827.
An extraordinary and enormous liturgical...
£7500
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[OXFORD UNIVERSITY.]
Pietas Universitatis Oxoniensis in obitum...
Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1761.
First edition, one of fifty copies on large...
£9500
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PRIOR, Matthew.
Poems on several Occasions.
London, printed for Jacob Tonson and John...
First edition, a subscriber’s copy on...
£5000
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[PRIMER.]
Preces privatae, in studiosorum gratia[m]...
London, William Seres, 1568.
Second edition of this rare ‘private’...
£4250
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[PSALMS.]
Psalmi Davidis regis et vatis inclyti,...
Antwerp, [(colophon:) Jan Verwithagen...
A collection of verse paraphrases of the...
£975
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MEFFRET, Johann.
Sermones Meffreth alias Ortulus regine...
[Basel, Nicolaus Kesler, not after 1485.]
A volume of sermons with early English...
£6500