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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[LAURENTIUS, Frater; Jan van BREDERODE, translator.]
[Summe le roy of des conincs summe].
[(Colophon:) Haarlem, [Jacob Bellaert],...
Rare early edition in Dutch (first Delft...
£40000
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LA VIGNE, André de.
Le vergier dhonneur nouvellement imprime...
[(Colophon:) Paris, Philippe le Noir],...
George Dunn’s copy of a rare early edition...
£9500
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[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
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LE GROS, Nicolas.
Meditations sur les epistres Catholiques...
Paris, chez Savoye, 1754.
First edition of this extensive work of...
£1250
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LELAND, John.
The Itinerary of John Leland, in or about...
London, Centaur Press Ltd, 1964.
The authoritative edition of Leland’s...
£50
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LEVEY, Michael.
The later Italian Pictures in the Collection...
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Revised second edition of Levey’s catalogue...
£475
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[LEXICON.] [ALENIUS, Arnoldus, i.e. Arnout van EYNDHOUTS.]
Lexicon Graecolatinum post omnes hactenus...
Venice, Alessandro Brucioli and brothers...
First edition of the Lexicon edited by...
£2000
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LIPPOMANO, Luigi.
Espositioni volgare del reveren. M. Luigi...
Venice, Girolamo Scoto, 1541.
First edition of this treatise on the Credo,...
£450
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[LITURGY.]
L’Office de la Semaine Sainte, selon...
Paris, par la Compagnie des libraires...
Uncommon edition of the offices for Holy...
£1250
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[LITURGY.] Girolamo GIOVANNINI, editor.
Officium hebdomadae sanctae, juxta formam...
Venice, ‘ex typographia Balleoniana’, 1742.
Very rare small-format edition of the Offices...
£275
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LIVY.
Libri omnes, quotquot ad nostrum aetatem...
Frankfurt, [Georg Rab for] Johann and...
An elegantly illustrated and scholarly...
£1750
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LIVY, Titus.
T. Livii Patauini […] ex XIIII Decadibus...
Paris, [Michel Vascosan for] Oudin Petit,...
A much-praised edition of Livy’s History,...
£3800
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LONGUS; Petrus MOLL, commentator.
Λογγου Ποιμενικων των...
Franeker, Joannes Arcerius, 1660.
First edition of Petrus Moll's (1596–1669)...
£450
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LUCAN.
Pharsalia cum annotationibus in margine...
Antwerp, Michael Hillenius, 1528.
An uncommon edition of Lucan’s poem on...
£2500
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LUCIAN of Samosata.
Opera graece et latine ad editionem Tiberii...
Zweibrücken, Typographia Societatis,...
Renouard’s copy of the Bipontine Lucian,...
£8000
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LUCIAN of Samosata; Étienne MOQUOT, editor.
Luciani Samosatensis dialogi selecti. Cum...
Lyons, Claude Obert, 1636.
Uncommon parallel Greek and Latin edition...
£375
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LUCRETIUS.
Titi Lucretii Cari de rerum natura libri...
Padua, Giuseppe Comino [for Volpi], 2...
First Volpi–Comino edition of Lucretius’s...
£450
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LUDOPHUS of Saxony.
In Psal. David, diligentiss. Simul, &...
[Lyons,] A. Vincent, [1542].
Uncommon and significant edition of one...
£2000
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LUIGINI, Francesco.
In librum Q. Horatii Flacci de arte poetica...
Venice, [(colophon:) sons of] Aldus, 1554.
First and only edition of Luigini’s commentary...
£850
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MABLY, Gabriel Bonnot, Abbé de.
Observations on the Romans. Written originally...
London: Printed for R. Griffiths … 1751.
First English edition of this Roman history...
£875