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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APULEIUS (Julien FLEURY, editor).
Lucii Apuleii Madaurensis Platonici philosophi...
Paris, Frederic Leonard, 1688.
First Delphin edition of the works of Apuleius,...
£350
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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.
Aristophanis comicorum principis Comoediae...
Venice, 1542 [colophon: apud D. Jacob...
First collected Latin edition of Aristophanes,...
£1200
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Aristotle: From Antiquity to the Modern Era.
Preface by Martin J. Gross. Essays by Benjamin...
Lewes, D. Giles Ltd for the Martin J....
Aristotle’s influence towers over western...
£30
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CAESAR, Gaius Julius.
Commentarii … tradotti di latino in volgar...
Venice, Heirs of Aldus, 1547.
Best edition in Italian of Caesar’s...
£2250
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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, Marcus Tullius.]
Tully’s three Books of Offices, in English. ...
London, [W. Onley] for Sam. Buckley, 1699.
First edition of this translation by...
£300
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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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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.
The Mythologiae of Natale Conti...
£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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DASSIER, Jean and Jacques-Antoine.
‘An Explanation of Dassier’s Medals...
London, c. 1795–1800.
An exceptionally fine illustrated manuscript,...
£6500
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DIODORUS Siculus.
Bibliothecae historicae libri XV. Hoc est,...
Basel, Heinrich Petri, August 1559.
Important edition, the first to be overseen...
£2500
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DIOGENES LAERTIUS, [and Henri ESTIENNE (editor)].
Περι βίων, δογμάτων και...
[Geneva,] Henri Estienne, 1570.
First Estienne edition of The Lives...
£1400
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[DOVES PRESS.]
Pervigilium Veneris.
Hammersmith, ‘printed by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson...
One of 150 copies on paper of the elusive...
£950
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EPICTETUS.
To tou Epiktetou encheiridion. Ex editione...
Glasgow, Foulis, 1751.
The first miniature Foulis edition of...
£900
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EPIPHANIUS.
Κατα αιρεσεων ογδοηκοτα...
Basel, [Johann Herwagen, 1544].
Editio princeps of the Greek...
£5000
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FERRER, Ventura Pascual.
Historia de los Dictadores de la republica...
Cartagena de Indias, Government Press...
First edition, very rare, of this Colombia-printed...
£650