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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. IRENICUS, Franciscus.

    Germaniae exegeseos volumina duodecima...

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

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

    £3500

  2. ISOCRATES.

    Orationes et epistolae gravitatis et suavitatis...

    Paris, Michel de Vascosan, 1553.

    A handsome Latin edition of twenty-one...

    £750

  3. IVANOV, Vyacheslav Ivanovich.

    Прометей трагедия [Prometei...

    St Petersburg, “Alkonost”, 1919.

    First edition of Ivanov’s dramatic poem...

    £250

  4. JEROME, [Pseudo-]; [Thomas DORNIBERG, editor].

    Aureola ex suavissimis salutiferisque floribus...

    [Speyer, Printer of the ‘Gesta Christi’,...

    Second edition of this set of monastic...

    £5750

  5. [JEROME, Saint.]

    Obitus beati iheromini.

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

    Rare incunable edition (first printed in...

    £22500

  6. [JESUITS.]

    The Travels of several learned Missioners...

    London, for R. Gosling, 1714.

    First English translation of twenty-two...

    £1250

  7. JOHN OF FREIBURG.

    Summa confessorum [and] Tractatus de instructione...

    France, mid-fourteenth century.

    From a large and well-decorated manuscript...

    £1500

  8. JUSTINUS, Marcus Junianus; Cornelius NEPOS.

    Trogi Pompei externae historiae in compendium...

    Venice, ‘in aedibus Aldi et Andreae...

    First Aldine edition of Justinus’ abridgement...

    £1850

  9. 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

  10. JUVENAL.

    The Satires … translated: with explanatory...

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

    Third edition of this parallel-text translation...

    £1250

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

    Satyrae.

    London, J. Brindley, 1744.

    First Brindley edition, edited by the Irish...

    £650

  12. [KAMES, Henry HOME, Lord].

    Grundsaetze der Kritik, aus dem Englischen...

    Vienna, Johann Thomas Edlen von Trattnern,...

    A Viennese reprint of the first German...

    £250

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

    Fur theologicè examinatus, & in judicio...

    Munich, Johann Lucas Straub, [1712].

    Only edition, rare, of this dissertation...

    £275

  14. KELLER, Martialis.

    Neueröffnete Himmels-Schule, in welcher...

    Augsburg, Matthäus Riegers, 1793.

    Rare later edition of this educational...

    £500

  15. KERKHERDERE, Jan Gerard.

    De situ Paradisi Terrestris ... Praecedit...

    Leuven, Martin van Overbeke, 1729.

    First edition of this work attempting to...

    £550

  16. KRUG, [Wilhelm Traugott].

    Apologia della chiesa protestante contro...

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

    First edition, extremely rare, of this...

    £275

  17. LACTANTIUS.

    Opera.

    [Venice,] Vindelinus de Spira, 1472.

    Magnificent incunable edition of the works...

    £25000

  18. LACTANTIUS, Lucius Caelius Firmianus, et alii.

    Opera perquam accurate castigata: Graeco...

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

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

    £2750

  19. [LAFONT, Joseph de.]

    Hypermnestre, tragedie, mise au theatre...

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

    Very scarce Lyon edition of the libretto...

    £175

  20. [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