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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[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, 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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LOMBARDI, Giovanni Francesco.
Oratio habita in synodo Tridentina die...
Brescia, Lodovico Sabbio, [1561?].
First edition of this sermon delivered...
£3750
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LONGINUS, [Pseudo-]; Jonathan TOUP and David RUHNKEN, editors.
Quae supersunt Graece et Latine.
Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1778.
The first Toup edition of Longinus’ On...
£375
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LORICH, Gerhard.
Institutio catholica fidei orthodoxae et...
[Frankfurt am Main], [(colophon:) Christian...
First editions of a pair of Reformation-era...
£1450
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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.
Opera, quae quidem extant, omnia, e Graeco...
Lyons, Jean Frellon, 1549.
First Lyons edition of the works of Lucian...
£3750
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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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LUDOLPH of Saxony.
Vita Christi.
Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 20 December 1478.
Early incunable edition of Ludolph of Saxony’s...
£45000
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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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MACROBIUS, Ambrosius Theodosius.
Somnium Scipionis ex Ciceronis libro De...
Venice, Filippo Pinzi, 29 October 1500.
Sixth and last incunable edition of Macrobius,...
£9500
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MAGGI, Lorenzo.
I sacri hinni, che si leggono in tutto...
Venice, Francesco Rampazetto, 1567.
Very rare first edition of this collection...
£500
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MAGNON, Jean.
Les heures du Chrestien, divisées en trois...
Paris, se vendent chez l’autheur …...
First edition of this handsomely illustrated...
£650
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[MAILLES, Jacques de.]
La tresioyeuse plaisante & recreative hystoire...
Paris, [(colophon:) Nicolas Cousteau for]...
First edition of Jacques de Mailles’...
£12500
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MANCINI, Celso.
Il padrino Christiano … per formare i...
Ferrara, Vittorio Baldini, 1592.
Rare first edition of a meditational work...
£950
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[MAPS.]
‘Carte du Vicariat Apost. de Péking...
[China], 1896.
Two handsome maps providing a snapshot...
£1800
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[MARABOTTA, Cattaneo.]
Vita della serafica S. Caterina da Genova.
Genoa, Tipografia Frugoni, 1832.
Rare first edition thus, an attractive...
£185