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. MAXIMUS the Confessor; Jean PICOT, translator.

    Sanctissimi patris magistrique, Maximi,...

    [(Colophon:) Paris,] Guillaume Morel, [1560].

    First edition of Jean Picot’s Latin translation...

    £850

  2. MEFFRET, Johann.

    Sermones Meffreth alias Ortulus regine...

    [Basel, Nicolaus Kesler, not after 1485.]

    A volume of sermons with early English...

    £6500

  3. MELECRINIS, Maria Teresa. 

    Le voci del cuore a Maria Teresa Melecrinis...

    Naples, stamperia dell' Iride, 1846. 

    Very rare collection of odes and sonnets...

    £175

  4. [MILAN, province of.]

    Ordo admittendi virgines ad monasterii...

    Milan, Tamburini and Valdoni, 1843.

    Scarce edition of this set of rites for...

    £200

  5. MILNER, Joseph.

    Practical Sermons, by the late Rev. Joseph...

    York: Printed by G. Peacock; and sold...

    First edition, rare, collecting 21 sermons...

    £175

  6. MINUCIUS FELIX; CYPRIAN, Saint, of Carthage; RIGAULT, Nicolas, editor.

    M. Minucii Felicis Octavius, et Caecilii...

    Paris, ‘apud viduam Mathurini du Puis’,...

    First Rigault edition of two works of early...

    £575

  7. [MISSAL.]

    Ordinaire de la Messe.

    [Paris?, c. 1890–1900].

    A lithographed and elegantly hand-coloured...

    £350

  8. [MISSIONARIES.]

    Shopping list of Christian texts, signed...

    [China, c. 1850.]

    A shopping list of Chinese Christian texts...

    £1500

  9. MITCHEL, William.

    A tract volume of fifteen works, including...

    Edinburgh and Glasgow 1711–1720.

    A fabulous tract volume of works by the...

    £7500

  10. [MONS.]

    Histoire de l’institution de l’ecole...

    Mons, J. B. Varret, 1748.

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

    £975

  11. MOUSSON, Pierre.

    Tragoediae seu diversarum gentium et imperiorum...

    La Flèche, George Griveau, 1621.

    First edition, provincially-printed, of...

    £725

  12. MÜNSTER, Sebastian.

    מלאכת הדיקדוק [Melechet...

    [Basel,] Johann Froben, 1524.

    First edition of Sebastian Münster’s...

    £6500

  13. MYLIUS, Georg, and Michael HOPF.

    De visitatione ecclesiastica.

    Jena, Tobias Steinmann, 1593.

    First edition, rare, of an early work on...

    £200

  14. [NAS, Johannes.]

    Nova, supra nova novorum: in quibus tum...

    [Ingolstadt, Wolfgang Eder, December 1581.]

    First illustrated edition, second overall,...

    £1450

  15. NATALI, Pietro de’; Antonio VERLO, editor.

    Catalogus sanctorum et gestorum eorum.

    Vicenza, Henricus de Sancto Ursio, Zenus,...

    First edition of a comprehensive encyclopaedia...

    £6250

  16. [NAUDÉ, Philippe, attr. author].

    Histoire abrégée de la naissance & du...

    Cologne, Pierre Marteau, 1692.

    First edition of the earliest work on the...

    £750

  17. NAVARRETE, Domingo Fernández. 

    Tratados historicos, politicos, ethicos,...

    Madrid, Juan Garcia Infançon for Florian...

    Scarce first edition, one of the most important...

    £3750

  18. NAVARRETE, Domingo Fernández.

    Tratados historicos, politicos, ethicos,...

    Madrid, Juan Garcia Infançon for Florian...

    Scarce first edition, one of the most important...

    £4750

  19. NELSON, John.

    An Extract of John Nelson’s Journal,...

    Bristol, E. Farley & Co., 1767.

    Rare first edition, printed in Bristol,...

    £600

  20. [NOVARA.]

    Editti per le sagre ordinationi, con altre...

    Novara, Francesco Liborio Cavallo, [1704].

    Very rare set of edicts governing ordination...

    £400