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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. [JESUITS.]

    The Travels of several learned Missioners...

    London, for R. Gosling, 1714.

    First English translation of twenty-two...

    £1250

  2. JOHN OF FREIBURG.

    Summa confessorum [and] Tractatus de instructione...

    France, mid-fourteenth century.

    From a large and well-decorated manuscript...

    £1500

  3. JUSTINUS, Marcus Junianus; Cornelius NEPOS.

    Trogi Pompei externae historiae in compendium...

    Venice, ‘in aedibus Aldi et Andreae...

    First Aldine edition of Justinus’ abridgement...

    £1850

  4. JUSTINUS, Marcus Junianus, Lucius Annaeus FLORUS, and Sextus RUFUS.

    Iustini Historia ex Trogo Pompeio quattuor...

    Paris, Jean Petit [and Jean Marchant], [1509].

    A collection of abbreviated Roman histories,...

    £1850

  5. JUVENAL.

    The Satires … translated: with explanatory...

    London, for J. Nicholson, Cambridge;...

    Third edition of this parallel-text translation...

    £1250

  6. JUVENAL, Decimus Junius, and Aulus Persius FLACCUS.

    Satyrae.

    London, J. Brindley, 1744.

    First Brindley edition, edited by the Irish...

    £650

  7. [KAMES, Henry HOME, Lord].

    Grundsaetze der Kritik, aus dem Englischen...

    Vienna, Johann Thomas Edlen von Trattnern,...

    A Viennese reprint of the first German...

    £250

  8. KARG, Stanislaus, Celso EISENMAN, and Eccard HOCHENBAUM.

    Fur theologicè examinatus, & in judicio...

    Munich, Johann Lucas Straub, [1712].

    Only edition, rare, of this dissertation...

    £275

  9. KELLER, Martialis.

    Neueröffnete Himmels-Schule, in welcher...

    Augsburg, Matthäus Riegers, 1793.

    Rare later edition of this educational...

    £500

  10. KERKHERDERE, Jan Gerard.

    De situ Paradisi Terrestris ... Praecedit...

    Leuven, Martin van Overbeke, 1729.

    First edition of this work attempting to...

    £550

  11. KRUG, [Wilhelm Traugott].

    Apologia della chiesa protestante contro...

    [S.l., s.n.,] 1822.

    First edition, extremely rare, of this...

    £275

  12. LACTANTIUS.

    Opera.

    [Venice,] Vindelinus de Spira, 1472.

    Magnificent incunable edition of the works...

    £25000

  13. LACTANTIUS, Lucius Caelius Firmianus, et alii.

    Opera perquam accurate castigata: Graeco...

    [(Colophons:) Venice, Giovanni Tacuino...

    A closely read copy of Lactantius’s encyclopaedia...

    £2750

  14. [LAFONT, Joseph de.]

    Hypermnestre, tragedie, mise au theatre...

    Lyon, de l’imprimerie d’Aymé Delaroche...

    Very scarce Lyon edition of the libretto...

    £175

  15. [LANSPERGER, Johannes Justus;] Serafino ACETI DE’ PORTI, translator.

    Pharetra divini amoris, tradotto in volgare...

    Venice, Paolo Gherardo [(colophon:) Comin...

    Third Italian edition, considerably enlarged,...

    £1500

  16. LA SERRE, Jean-Puget de.

    Grab-Statt der weltlichen Ergötzlichkeiten,...

    Regensburg, Johann Conrad Peetz und Bader,...

    First edition in German of Tombeau des...

    £375

  17. LA VIGNE, André de.

    Le vergier dhonneur nouvellement imprime...

    [(Colophon:) Paris, Philippe le Noir],...

    George Dunn’s copy of a rare early edition...

    £9500

  18. [LA VIGNE, André de, and Octavien de SAINT-GELAIS.]

    Le vergier dhonneur nouvellement imprime...

    [Paris, Pierre le Dru and Jean Petit, 1503.]

    Extremely rare first edition of the Vergier...

    £120000

  19. LE GROS, Nicolas.

    Meditations sur les epistres Catholiques...

    Paris, chez Savoye, 1754.

    First edition of this extensive work of...

    £1250

  20. LELAND, John.

    The Itinerary of John Leland, in or about...

    London, Centaur Press Ltd, 1964.

    The authoritative edition of Leland’s...

    £50