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. AESOP, et al. [George STEWART, editor].

    Selectiores Aesopi Phrygis fabulae, et...

    Edinburgh, Tho. Ruddiman for George Stewart,...

    First edition thus, scarce, a Scottish...

    £375

  2. ALABASTER, William.

    Roxana tragaedia olim Cantabrigiae, acta...

    London, R. Badger for Andrew Crook, 1632.

    The pirated first edition (the first...

    £1500

  3. ANACREON.

    [Odaria.] Ανακρεοντος τηιου...

    Parma, [Bodoni] ‘in aedibus Palatinis’,...

    Thick paper copy, apparently one of...

    £650

  4. APPIAN of Alexandria.

    Civili. Appiano Alessandrino delle guerre...

    Venice, [Pietro Nicolini da Sabbio for...

    A much-annotated copy of these late...

    £3000

  5. APULEIUS, Lucius. 

    L. Apuleii Metamorphoseos, sive lusus...

    Venice, ‘in aedibus Aldi et Andreae...

    First Aldine edition of the works of...

    £2000

  6. ARISTIDES, Aelius. 

    Orationum tomi tres, nunc primum latine...

    Basel, Peter Perna and Heinrich Petrus, 1566. 

    First edition in Latin, a remarkable...

    £2750

  7. ARISTOPHANES.

    Aristophanis comicorum principis Comoediae...

    Venice, 1542 [colophon: apud D. Jacob...

    First collected Latin edition of Aristophanes,...

    £1200

  8. ARISTOPHANES.

    The Frogs, a Comedy. Translated from the...

    Oxford, J. and J. Fletcher; London,...

    First edition in English, and the only...

    £500

  9. ARISTOPHANES, and Henry Francis CARY, translator.

    The Birds … with Notes.

    London, Printed for Taylor and Hessey …...

    First edition of the first metrical...

    £350

  10. ARISTOTLE.

    Αριστοτελους περι ποιητικης:...

    Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1780.

    Large-paper issue of the first Winstanley...

    £675

  11. ARISTOTLE; Ermolao BARBARO, translator.

    De arte dicendi libri III.

    Paris, [Michel de] Vascosan, 1549.

    Rare first Vascosan edition of Aristotle’s...

    £650

  12. [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

  13. CARTARI, Vincenzo. 

    Le imagini con la spositione de i dei de...

    Venice, per Francesco Marcolini, 1556. 

    First edition of Cartari’s influential...

    £800

  14. CATULLUS, TIBULLUS, PROPERTIUS, ‘GALLUS’.

    Opera … cum indice e diligenti vocum...

    Hanau, Wechel Press, Claude de Marne,...

    Wechel edition of the standard triad of...

    £450

  15. [CICERO, Marcus Tullius.]

    Commentarii Philippicarum Marci Ciceronis...

    Paris, Thomas Caseus for Jean Petit, [1514].

    Rare edition, attractively printed and...

    £950

  16. CICERO, Marcus Tullius.

    De Officiis … libri tres, ex editione...

    London, T. Payne, 1791.

    First Payne edition, edited by Henry...

    £450

  17. CICERO, Marcus Tullius.

    De Officiis … libri tres. Item, de amicitia:...

    London, [Felix Kingston for] the Stationers’...

    London edition of the ‘greatest hits’...

    £600

  18. [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

  19. CICERO, Marcus Tullius.

    Marcus Tullius Ciceroes three Bookes of...

    [London, Richard Tottel,] 1583.

    Sixth edition of Grimald’s Cicero,...

    £3200

  20. CLAUDIANUS, Claudius.

    Claudii Claudiani Alexandrini, poetae illustriss. quotquot...

    Paris, Simon de Colines, 1530.

    First Colines edition of the major works...

    £850