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. HORACE.

    ...

    Edinburgh, George Mosman, 1704.

    A rare, modestly printed Scottish Horace,...

    £450

  2. HORACE.

    Quinti Horatii Flacci Opera cum novo commentario...

    Paris, Didot, 1855.

    The deluxe issue of Didot’s Horace, a...

    £750

  3. HORACE.

    Quinti Horatii Flacci poemata, novis scholiis...

    [Geneva, Henri Estienne, 1574.]

    First Henri Estienne edition of the works...

    £2500

  4. HORACE; James TATE, editor

    Horatius restitutus: or the books...

    Cambridge, J. Smith for J. & J.J. Deighton,...

    First edition of this attempt to arrange...

    £150

  5. [HOSPICE SAINT-NICOLAS, METZ.]

    Deed granting land to the hospice.

    Metz, 5 May 1464.

    A significant document recording the grant...

    £450

  6. HOSPINIAN, Rudolf. 

    Historia Jesuitica.  Hoc est, de origine,...

    Zurich, Johannes Rudolph Wolf, 1670. 

    Second edition of Hospinian’s vast and...

    £800

  7. HOSSCHIUS, Sidronius.

    Sidronii Hosschii e Societate Iesu elegiarum...

    Antwerp, Balthasar Moretus ‘ex officina...

    First collected edition of the neo-Latin...

    £600

  8. HURTADO, Eugenio, scribe.

    [Missal for feast days.]

    Madrid, 1827.

    An extraordinary and enormous liturgical...

    £7500

  9. HYGINUS Gromaticus, attributed, and POLYBIUS.

    De Castris Romanis, quae extant. Cum notis...

    Amsterdam, Jodocus Pluymer, 1660.

    First edition thus, with annotations by...

    £1000

  10. IBN VERGA, Solomon; Georg GENTIUS, translator.

    Historia Judaica res Judaeorum ab eversa...

    Amsterdam, Pieter Niellius, 1651.

    First Latin edition of Solomon Ibn Verga’s...

    £3750

  11. [INCUNABLE SAMMELBAND.]

    Sammelband of ten works.

    Rome, Stephan Plannck and Eucharius Silber,...

    A sammelband of ten Roman incunables, nine...

    £25000

  12. [INDULGENCE.] 

    Letter of Indulgence (in Catalan),...

    [Lerida, Heinrich Botel, c. 1498.] 

    Extremely rare incunable indulgence in...

    £34000

  13. [INDULGENCES.] 

    Indulgencias concedidas a los congregantes...

    [Barcelona, 1793.] 

    Very rare broadside detailing the indulgences...

    £175

  14. IRENICUS, Franciscus.

    Germaniae exegeseos volumina duodecima...

    [(Colophon:) Hagenau, Thomas Anshelm for...

    First editions of a pair of sixteenth-century...

    £3500

  15. ISOCRATES.

    Orationes et epistolae gravitatis et suavitatis...

    Paris, Michel de Vascosan, 1553.

    A handsome Latin edition of twenty-one...

    £750

  16. IVANOV, Vyacheslav Ivanovich.

    Прометей трагедия [Prometei...

    St Petersburg, “Alkonost”, 1919.

    First edition of Ivanov’s dramatic poem...

    £250

  17. [JEROME, Saint.]

    Obitus beati iheromini.

    [Delft, Jacob Jacobszoon van der Meer,...

    Rare incunable edition (first printed in...

    £22500

  18. [JESUITS.]

    The Travels of several learned Missioners...

    London, for R. Gosling, 1714.

    First English translation of twenty-two...

    £1250

  19. JOHANNES von Werden.

    Sermones d[omi]nicales cu[m] expositionib[us]...

    [Cologne, Johann Koelhoff the Elder, c. 1484.]

    A very rare edition of this collection...

    £6250

  20. JOHN OF FREIBURG.

    Summa confessorum [and] Tractatus de instructione...

    France, mid-fourteenth century.

    From a large and well-decorated manuscript...

    £1500