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. OVID; Georg SABINUS, editor.

    Metamorphoses seu fabulae poeticae earumque...

    Frankfurt, Nikolaus Hoffmann, 1608.

    A pocket edition of Ovid’s Metamorphoses...

    £325

  2. [OXFORD UNIVERSITY.]

    Pietas Universitatis Oxoniensis in obitum...

    Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1761.

    First edition, one of fifty copies on large...

    £9500

  3. PACE, Giulio.

    Artis Lullianae emendatae libri IV. Quibus...

    Naples, Secondino Roncagliolo, 1631.

    Rare third edition (first 1618) of this...

    £750

  4. PACIFICUS, Sacerdos.

    Two letters signed regarding religious...

    [?Hong Kong, 1846.]

    Two interesting letters referring to paintings...

    £1100

  5. [PASSAU.]

    Ursprung der Wallfahrt Maria Hilf bei Passau.

    [Passau?] 1845.

    First and only edition, very rare, of this...

    £175

  6. PASSI, Carlo.

    La selva di varia istoria … la quale...

    Venice, Altobello Salicato, 1572.

    An unsophisticated copy of Passi and Ruscelli’s...

    £500

  7. PAULUS DE SANCTA MARIA.

    Scrutinium scripturarum.

    [Strasbourg, Johann Mentelin, c. 1474.]

    Third edition of this treatise of Christian...

    £10000

  8. PEARSON, David.

    Bookbindings: an illustrated History.

    Oxford, Bodleian Library Publishing, 2026.

    Richly illustrated throughout, this book...

    £50

  9. PEPE, Stefano.

    [Half-title: ‘Il Cappuccino d’Este...

    [Italy, second half of the seventeenth...

    A seemingly unpublished life of Alfonso...

    £1250

  10. PEROTTO, Niccolò, and Benedetto BRUGNOLO, editor.

    Cornucopi[a]e nuper emendatum a domino...

    [Milan], Giovanni Giacomo and brothers...

    Scarce Milanese edition of Perotto’s...

    £1750

  11. PERSIUS; [Thomas BREWSTER, translator].

    The Satires of Persius translated into...

    London, Printed for A. Millar, 1751.

    Second edition, with the addition of Bayle’s...

    £375

  12. PERUCCI, Francesco.

    Pompe funebri di tutte le nationi del mondo,...

    Verona, Francesco Rossi, 1639.

    First edition of Perucci’s account of...

    £975

  13. PETRINI, Giovanni.

    Sixteen copper engravings depicting scenes...

    [Rome, late eighteenth century.]

    An attractive volume containing sixteen...

    £1750

  14. PETRONIUS.

    Satyricon, eiusdemque fragmenta, illustrata...

    Leiden, Justus Livius, 1645.

    Third edition of the Satyricon as...

    £950

  15. PETRONIUS ARBITER, Titus.

    Satyricon; et diversorum poëtarum lusus...

    Utrecht, Gijsbert van Zijll and Dirck...

    A volume of Silver Age satire and lewd...

    £350

  16. PHILOPONUS, Joannes.

    Υπομνημα εις τα περι ψυχης...

    [(Colophon:) Venice, Bartolomeo Zanetti...

    Editio princeps of the ancient commentator...

    £4000

  17. PIERTZ, Leonhard, Praesidens; Johann Ernst SCHLERETH, Respondens.

    De sacramentis in specie, Eucharistia et...

    Würzburg, Johann Michael Kleyer, 1703.

    A good copy of this rare Würzburg dissertation...

    £175

  18. ‘PIETRO da VICOVARO’, i.e. Giuseppe CORTESE.

    Apparecchio per accompagnare Maria Santissima...

    Rome, Komarek, 1735.

    Very rare devotional work dedicated to...

    £550

  19. PIGHIUS, Stephanus Vinandus.

    Themis dea, seu de lege divina … Mythologia...

    Antwerp, Christopher Plantin, 1568.

    First edition of Pighius’s two treatises...

    £450

  20. PINDAR. 

    Carmina, ex editione Chr. Gottl. Heyne. 

    Oxford, N. Bliss for M. Bliss and R. Bliss...

    An attractive Oxford-printed pocket edition...

    £175