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. [NUNS.]

    Il paradiso in terra aperto alle sagre...

    Rome, Ottavio Puccinelli, 1747.

    Second edition (first 1718) of an anonymous...

    £1750

  2. [OUR LADY OF LORETO.]

    Abregé de l’histoire de Notre Dame de...

    Loreto, Federico Sartori, 1787.

    Rare edition of this guidebook for French...

    £1350

  3. PACE, Giulio.

    Artis Lullianae emendatae libri IV. Quibus...

    Naples, Secondino Roncagliolo, 1631.

    Rare third edition (first 1618) of this...

    £750

  4. PACIFICUS, Sacerdos.

    Two letters signed regarding religious...

    [?Hong Kong, 1846.]

    Two interesting letters referring to paintings...

    £1100

  5. PALLAVICINI, Stefano Benedetto.

    I penitenti al sepolcro del redentore second’il...

    [Prague], Johann Norbert Fitzky, [1738].

    A seemingly unrecorded edition of a libretto...

    £650

  6. [PASSAU.]

    Ursprung der Wallfahrt Maria Hilf bei Passau.

    [Passau?] 1845.

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

    £175

  7. PAULUS DE SANCTA MARIA.

    Scrutinium scripturarum.

    [Strasbourg, Johann Mentelin, c. 1474.]

    Third edition of this treatise of Christian...

    £10000

  8. PEPE, Stefano.

    [Half-title: ‘Il Cappuccino d’Este...

    [Italy, second half of the seventeenth...

    A seemingly unpublished life of Alfonso...

    £1250

  9. PERPIÑA, Pedro Juan.

    Orationes duodeviginti. Editio quinta....

    Ingolstadt, Adam Sartorius, 1609.

    A richly annotated copy of Perpiña’s...

    £850

  10. PETRINI, Giovanni.

    Sixteen copper engravings depicting scenes...

    [Rome, late eighteenth century.]

    An attractive volume containing sixteen...

    £1750

  11. PEZZI, Lorenzo.

    Vinea domini. Cum brevi descriptione sacramentor[um]...

    Venice, Girolamo Porro, 1588.

    First edition of this handsomely illustrated...

    £975

  12. PIERTZ, Leonhard, Praesidens; Johann Ernst SCHLERETH, Respondens.

    De sacramentis in specie, Eucharistia et...

    Würzburg, Johann Michael Kleyer, 1703.

    A good copy of this rare Würzburg dissertation...

    £175

  13. PIETRASANTA, Silvestro.

    De symbolis heroicis libri IX …

    Antwerp, Balthasar Moretus ‘ex officina...

    First edition of this Jesuit collection...

    £850

  14. ‘PIETRO da Vicovaro’, i.e. Giuseppe CORTESE.

    Apparecchio per accompagnare Maria Santissima...

    Rome, Komarek, 1735.

    Presentation copy of a very rare devotional...

    £550

  15. PINDER, Richard.

    The Spirit of Error, found, and discovered,...

    [(Colophon:) London, Robert Wilson, 1660.]

    First and only edition of this tract by...

    £750

  16. PITTORIO, Lodovico.

    Delle homelie di M. Lodovico Pittorio...

    Turin, Francesco Lorenzini, 1581 (colophon:...

    Very rare edition of a popular and much...

    £800

  17. [PLAINCHANT.]

    Nouvelle méthode pour aprendre le plaint-chant...

    Rouen, chez Jore père et fils, [c. 1730].

    A seemingly unrecorded guide to plainchant...

    £750

  18. [POOR CLARES.]

    A Pious Collection of severall profitable...

    Douai, M. Mairesse, [1684.]

    First edition, rare, of A Pious Collection...

    £5000

  19. [PRAYERBOOK.]

    ‘Gebetbuch’.

    [Germany, early nineteenth century.]

    An attractive early nineteenth-century...

    £185

  20. [PRAYERS.] 

    ‘Orationes diversae pro temporum opportunitate...

    [Likely Lucca, late eighteenth century.] 

    A delightful manuscript prayerbook for...

    £475