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. ROTH, Henry.

    Call it Sleep.

    London, Michael Joseph, 1963.

    First UK edition of Roth’s precocious...

    £250

  2. 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

  3. [ROUEN.]

    L’Office de Saint Godard, archevesque...

    Rouen, ‘chez la veuve de Jacq. Jos. Le...

    Rare office for the feast of St Gildard...

    £575

  4. 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

  5. RYDER, Joseph.

    ‘Remarks and Observations from the written...

    [20 June 1731 to 19 June 1732, copied 1733].

    A fascinating devotional manuscript, comprising,...

    £1650

  6. SAINT-FRANÇOIS, Hugues de.

    Les actions religieuses et exercices de...

    Angers, Pierre Avril, 1648.

    A rare manual of spiritual instruction...

    £1250

  7. SAUBERT, Johann.

    Miracula Augustanae Confessionis, [engraved...

    [Nuremberg,] Wolffgang Endter, 1631.

    First editions of three works of Lutheran...

    £2850

  8. [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

  9. SCALVO, Bartolomeo.

    Rosariae preces ad gloriosam Dei genitricem...

    Milan, Pacificus Pontius, 1569.

    First edition of this Marian book of prayers...

    £3500

  10. SCLATER, William.

    An Exposition with Notes upon the first...

    London, printed for I. Parker and are...

    An attractive copy of these best-selling...

    £950

  11. [SCOTT, Walter, Sir.]

    Ivanhoe; A Romance. By “The Author of...

    Edinburgh, [James Ballantyne & Co.] for...

    Stated second edition but in fact a third...

    £375

  12. SIBILLA, Bartolomeo.

    Speculum peregrinarum quaestionum … Tres...

    [(Colophon:) Lyon, Jacques Myt, 9 August 1521.]

    Second Lyon edition of Sibilla’s popular...

    £1500

  13. SPENCE, James.

    The Light of Heaven, on the Path of Youth:...

    1849. Preston, John Walker, and London,...

    First edition, apparently unrecorded, of...

    £175

  14. [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

  15. STEPNIAK, Sergey. 

    דאָס אינטערערדישע רוסלאַנד...

    New York, Maks N. Maisel, 1921. 

    Scarce first American edition in Yiddish...

    £150

  16. SWIFT, Jonathan. 

    A Tale of a Tub … to which is added,...

    London, C. Bathurst, 1751. 

    A scarce later edition of Swift’s classic...

    £175

  17. 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

  18. [SYRIAC.]

    ܟܘܪܣܬܐ ܕܥܢܝܕܵܐ ܒܢܵܝ ܥܠܡܐ...

    Urmia, Archbishop of Canterbury’s Assyrian...

    Extremely rare edition of the Syriac liturgy...

    £1850

  19. TERTULLIAN.

    Opera … per Beatum Rhenanum Seletstadiensem...

    Basel, [(colophon:) Hieronymus] Froben...

    Third Froben edition of Tertullian’s...

    £1750

  20. 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