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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AESOP, et al. [George STEWART, editor].
Selectiores Aesopi Phrygis fabulae, et...
Edinburgh, Tho. Ruddiman for George Stewart,...
First edition thus, scarce, a Scottish...
£375
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ANACREON.
[Odaria.] Ανακρεοντος τηιου...
Parma, [Bodoni] ‘in aedibus Palatinis’,...
Thick paper copy, apparently one of...
£650
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[ANTHOLOGIA GRAECA PLANUDEA.]
Florilegium diversorum epigrammatum in...
[(Colophon:) Venice, in the house of Aldus...
Second Aldine edition of the earliest...
£2000
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APPIAN of Alexandria.
Civili. Appiano Alessandrino delle guerre...
Venice, [Pietro Nicolini da Sabbio for...
A much-annotated copy of these late...
£3000
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APULEIUS, Lucius.
L. Apuleii Metamorphoseos, sive lusus...
Venice, ‘in aedibus Aldi et Andreae...
First Aldine edition of the works of...
£2000
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ARISTIDES, Aelius.
Orationum tomi tres, nunc primum latine...
Basel, Peter Perna and Heinrich Petrus, 1566.
First edition in Latin, a remarkable...
£2750
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ARISTOPHANES.
The Frogs, a Comedy. Translated from the...
Oxford, J. and J. Fletcher; London,...
First edition in English, and the only...
£500
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ARISTOPHANES, and Henry Francis CARY, translator.
The Birds … with Notes.
London, Printed for Taylor and Hessey …...
First edition of the first metrical...
£350
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ARISTOTLE.
Αριστοτελους περι ποιητικης:...
Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1780.
Large-paper issue of the first Winstanley...
£675
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BACON, Francis.
Historia vitae et mortis.
Amsterdam, Johannes van Ravesteyn, 1663.
Pocket-sized Amsterdam editions of three...
£975
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[CAESAR.] RAMUS, Petrus (Pierre de la RAMÉE).
Liber de militia C. Julii Caesaris, cum...
Frankfurt, heirs of Andreas Wechel, 1584.
An attractively bound copy of Ramus’s...
£450
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CARTARI, Vincenzo.
Le imagini con la spositione de i dei de...
Venice, per Francesco Marcolini, 1556.
First edition of Cartari’s influential...
£800
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CICERO.
Epistolarum selectarum libri tres.
London, Jane Ilive for the Stationers’...
Rare edition of this Cicero schoolbook,...
£450
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[CICERO, Marcus Tullius.]
Commentarii Philippicarum Marci Ciceronis...
Paris, Thomas Caseus for Jean Petit, [1514].
Rare edition, attractively printed and...
£950
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CICERO, Marcus Tullius.
De Officiis … libri tres. Item, de amicitia:...
London, [Felix Kingston for] the Stationers’...
London edition of the ‘greatest hits’...
£600
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CLAUDIANUS, Claudius.
Claudii Claudiani Alexandrini, poetae illustriss. quotquot...
Paris, Simon de Colines, 1530.
First Colines edition of the major works...
£850
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CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA (Titus Flavius CLEMENS).
Omnia opera.
Paris, Sebastien Nivelle, 1572.
A thoroughly annotated copy of this...
£4750
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CONTI, Natale.
Mythologiæ, sive explicationis fabularum,...
Frankfurt, the heirs of André Wechel, 1584.
Scarce Frankfurt edition of the Mythologiae...
£950
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CURTIUS Rufus, Quintus.
De rebus Alexandri Magni, cum commentario...
Utrecht, Franciscus Halma, 1685.
First Halma edition of Curtius’s history...
£375
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CURTIUS RUFUS, Quintus.
De rebus gestis Alexandri Magni regis Macedonum...
Basel, Hieronymus Froben and Nicolaus...
Handsome folio edition of Curtius Rufus’...
£2000