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. [PSALTER.] Justinus DECADYUS, editor.

    Ψαλτηριον.

    Venice, Aldus Manutius, [not after 1 October...

    The elegant first Aldine printing of the...

    £45000

  2. [LAURENTIUS, Frater; Jan van BREDERODE, translator.]

    [Summe le roy of des conincs summe.]

    [(Colophon:) Haarlem, [Jacob Bellaert],...

    Rare early edition in Dutch (first Delft...

    £40000

  3. [INDULGENCE.] 

    Letter of Indulgence (in Catalan),...

    [Lerida, Heinrich Botel, c. 1498.] 

    Extremely rare incunable indulgence in...

    £34000

  4. URSINIS, Bartholomaeus de.

    [Quadragesimale quod dicitur Gratia Dei.]

    [Naples, Francesco del Tuppo for Bernardinus...

    First and only edition, a handsome, wide-margined...

    £27500

  5. LACTANTIUS.

    Opera.

    [Venice,] Vindelinus de Spira, 1472.

    Magnificent incunable edition of the works...

    £25000

  6. AUGUSTINUS TRIUMPHUS [i.e. AUGUSTINUS de Ancona].  

    Summa de potestate ecclesiastica.

    Augsburg, [Johann Schüssler,] 6 March 1473.

    First edition of this highly important...

    £22500

  7. [JEROME, Saint.]

    Obitus beati iheromini.

    [Delft, Jacob Jacobszoon van der Meer,...

    Rare incunable edition (first printed in...

    £22500

  8. [GRADUAL.]

    Vast historiated initial ‘A’ cut from...

    Italy (Umbria), end of thirteenth century.

    A spectacular initial on the scale of a...

    £20000

  9. [CANONS REGULAR OF THE LATERAN.]

    Regula et constitutiones Canonicorum Regularium...

    Rome, apud Paulum Bladum, 1592. 

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

    £18500

  10. [GUIDO DE MONTE ROCHEN.]

    Manipulus curatorum.

    [(Colophon:) London, Wynkyn de Worde,...

    First Wynkyn de Worde edition of this immensely...

    £17500

  11. [GUIDO DE MONTE ROCHEN.]

    Manipulus curatorum.

    [(Colophon:) London, Richard Pynson, 1508.]

    Very rare Pynson edition of the Manipulus...

    £14000

  12. [GILBY, Anthony, translator.]

    The Testaments of the twelve Patriarches,...

    London, John Day, 1577.

    Fourth edition (first 1574), very rare,...

    £12500

  13. BIBLE, in Latin.

    Genesis to Apocalypse, with the prologues...

    France (Paris), mid-thirteenth century.

    A handsome example of a thirteenth-century...

    £120000

  14. PAULUS DE SANCTA MARIA.

    Scrutinium scripturarum.

    [Strasbourg, Johann Mentelin, c. 1474.]

    Third edition of this treatise of Christian...

    £10000

  15. [BIGG-WITHER.]

    The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament...

    London, Bonham Norton and John Bill, 1628.

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

    £8750

  16. GERSON, Johannes [Pseudo-].

    Donatus [moralisatus].

    [Nuremberg, Friedrich Creussner, c. 1475.]

    Early editions of two rare devotional tracts...

    £8500

  17. [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

  18. ANTONIUS de Vercellis.

    Sermones quadragesimales de XII mirabilibus...

    Venice, Johannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis,...

    A remarkable copy of the first edition...

    £8500

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

    Repertorium statutoru[m] ordinis cartusiensis...

    Basel, Johann Amerbach, 1510.

    First printed edition of the Statutes of...

    £7500

  20. HURTADO, Eugenio, scribe.

    [Missal for feast days.]

    Madrid, 1827.

    An extraordinary and enormous liturgical...

    £7500