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. [PRAYERS.] 

    Récueil de plusieurs prieres.   

    Vienna, ‘chez Georg Müllner libraire...

    Very rare and charming early nineteenth-century...

    £450

  2. [PRAYERS.]

    The New-Years-Gift, complete: in six Parts....

    London, Henry Mortlock, 1700.

    Unrecorded edition of a very popular collection...

    £1200

  3. [PRAYERS.]

    Solidae devotionis epitome in nucleo orationum...

    Vienna, Johann Georg Schlegel, [1704].

    An apparently unrecorded short manual of...

    £650

  4. [PRIMER.]

    Preces privatae, in studiosorum gratia[m]...

    London, William Seres, 1568.

    Second edition of this rare ‘private’...

    £4250

  5. [PSALMS.]

    Les Pseaumes de David, mis en Vers François,...

    Amsterdam, ‘aux dépens de l’Eglise...

    New edition of the metrical Psalms of the...

    £950

  6. [PSALMS.]

    Psalterium Davidis carmine redditum per...

    Paris, [(colophon:) Guillaume Morel for]...

    Seemingly unrecorded issue of the Psalms...

    £1250

  7. [PSALMS.]

    Les Pseaumes de David, mis en rime Françoise,...

    ‘Se vendent à Charenton, par Antoine...

    Charenton-printed French Psalms in a remarkable...

    £2750

  8. [PSALMS.]

    Psalmi Davidis regis et vatis inclyti,...

    Antwerp, [(colophon:) Jan Verwithagen...

    A collection of verse paraphrases of the...

    £975

  9. [PSALMS.]

    The whole Booke of Psalmes, collected into...

    London, printed by T. C[otes] for the...

    A very attractive pocket psalm book with...

    £2750

  10. [PSALMS; Basil WOODD, editor.]

    The Psalms of David, and other Portions...

    London, Watts & Bridgewaters, Rivingtons,...

    A pocket-sized Psalm- and prayerbook with...

    £2000

  11. [PSALMS.] J. T. BARRETT, editor.

    A Course of Psalms, adapted to the Services...

    London, J. Cochran, 1827.

    Fifth edition of the Course of Psalms...

    £175

  12. [PSALTER.] Justinus DECADYUS, editor.

    Ψαλτηριον.

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

    The elegant first Aldine printing of the...

    £45000

  13. PURSEY, Thomas.

    The last General Assembly of the Free Church...

    [Edinburgh, T. Pursey, 1900.]

    A photographic tour-de-force, assembling...

    £2000

  14. QUARLES, Francis.

    Emblemes [– Hieroglyphikes of the Life...

    London, for William Freeman, [1709].

    Quarles’ Emblemes, ‘the work...

    £375

  15. [RAMEAUX, François-Alexis.]

    Edictum pro regis Hou-kuanensis adversus...

    [China], [1840–1] 道光卄年.

    A letter sent by the Department of Justice...

    £3500

  16. [RAMEAUX, François-Alexis.]

    Notice of the death of Rameaux issued by...

    [China, 1845.]

    A circular notifying the Christian community...

    £2000

  17. RHOADS, James Evans.

    Autograph letter signed (‘James E. Rhoads’)...

    Philadelphia, 22 July 1869.

    A letter from the first president of Bryn...

    £100

  18. RICCI, Vincenzo.

    Geroglifici morali … Opera nuova, hora...

    Naples, Giovanni Domenico Roncagliolo, 1626.

    Uncommon first edition of this work intended...

    £2000

  19. RICH, Jeremiah.

    The Whole Book of Psalms in Meter. According...

    London, ‘Printed and are sold by Samuel...

    First edition, the issue with Samuel Botley...

    £3500

  20. ROMANA, Provost.

    Nell’aprirsi della nuova chiesa dalla...

    Mondovì, Pietro Francesco and Luiggi...

    Unrecorded provincially printed broadside...

    £275