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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ROTH, Henry.
Call it Sleep.
London, Michael Joseph, 1963.
First UK edition of Roth’s precocious...
£250
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ROTHSCHILD, Boaz Raphael.
[Sefer oniyah b’lev yam … Chelek rishon]....
Fürth, Chaim ben Zvi Hirsch, 1766.
First part of the first and only edition...
£450
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[ROUEN.]
L’Office de Saint Godard, archevesque...
Rouen, ‘chez la veuve de Jacq. Jos. Le...
Rare office for the feast of St Gildard...
£575
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ROUGEMONT, François de; [Sebastião de MAGALHÃES, translator].
Relacam do estado politico e espiritual...
Lisbon, Joao da Costa, 1672.
First edition in any language of the Dutch...
£2500
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RYDER, Joseph.
‘Remarks and Observations from the written...
[20 June 1731 to 19 June 1732, copied 1733].
A fascinating devotional manuscript, comprising,...
£1650
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SAINT-FRANÇOIS, Hugues de.
Les actions religieuses et exercices de...
Angers, Pierre Avril, 1648.
A rare manual of spiritual instruction...
£1250
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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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[SAVOY-CARIGNAN, Maria Vittoria Francesca, Princess of.]
Recueil de prières et de pratiques très...
[Paris, Imprimerie Royale], 1735.
First and only edition of this rare prayerbook,...
£2500
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SCALVO, Bartolomeo.
Rosariae preces ad gloriosam Dei genitricem...
Milan, Pacificus Pontius, 1569.
First edition of this Marian book of prayers...
£3500
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SCLATER, William.
An Exposition with Notes upon the first...
London, printed for I. Parker and are...
An attractive copy of these best-selling...
£950
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[SCOTT, Walter, Sir.]
Ivanhoe; A Romance. By “The Author of...
Edinburgh, [James Ballantyne & Co.] for...
Stated second edition but in fact a third...
£375
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SIBILLA, Bartolomeo.
Speculum peregrinarum quaestionum … Tres...
[(Colophon:) Lyon, Jacques Myt, 9 August 1521.]
Second Lyon edition of Sibilla’s popular...
£1500
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SPENCE, James.
The Light of Heaven, on the Path of Youth:...
1849. Preston, John Walker, and London,...
First edition, apparently unrecorded, of...
£175
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[STATIONS OF THE CROSS.]
Exercice du Via Crucis, avec les pratiques...
Caen, Nicolas-Gilles Dedouit, [c. 1825].
Very rare manual for devotees of the Stations...
£350
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STEPNIAK, Sergey.
דאָס אינטערערדישע רוסלאַנד...
New York, Maks N. Maisel, 1921.
Scarce first American edition in Yiddish...
£150
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SWIFT, Jonathan.
A Tale of a Tub … to which is added,...
London, C. Bathurst, 1751.
A scarce later edition of Swift’s classic...
£175
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SYKES, Arthur Ashley.
The Duty of Love to God, and to our Neighbours. ...
London, J. Darby & T. Browne for Chelmsford,...
First and only edition of this sermon given...
£150
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[SYRIAC.]
ܟܘܪܣܬܐ ܕܥܢܝܕܵܐ ܒܢܵܝ ܥܠܡܐ...
Urmia, Archbishop of Canterbury’s Assyrian...
Extremely rare edition of the Syriac liturgy...
£1850
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TERTULLIAN.
Opera … per Beatum Rhenanum Seletstadiensem...
Basel, [(colophon:) Hieronymus] Froben...
Third Froben edition of Tertullian’s...
£1750
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TO THE PARLIAMENT OF ENGLAND,
who are in Place to do Justice, and to...
London, Printed for Thomas Simmons …, 1659.
First edition, rare, a list of Quaker victims...
£300