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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. APULEIUS (Julien FLEURY, editor).

    Lucii Apuleii Madaurensis Platonici philosophi...

    Paris, Frederic Leonard, 1688.

    First Delphin edition of the works of Apuleius,...

    £350

  2. ARISTIDES, Aelius. 

    Orationum tomi tres, nunc primum latine...

    Basel, Peter Perna and Heinrich Petrus, 1566. 

    First edition in Latin, a remarkable...

    £2750

  3. 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

  4. BEVER, Thomas.

    The History of the legal polity of the...

    London, Strahan and Cadell, 1781.

    Sole edition of a legal history conceived...

    £1500

  5. CAESAR, Gaius Julius.

    Commentarii … tradotti di latino in volgar...

    Venice, Heirs of Aldus, 1547.

    Best edition in Italian of Caesar’s...

    £2250

  6. [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

  7. CARTARI, Vincenzo. 

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

    Venice, per Francesco Marcolini, 1556. 

    First edition of Cartari’s influential...

    £800

  8. [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

  9. [CICERO, Marcus Tullius.]

    Commentarii Philippicarum Marci Ciceronis...

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

    Rare edition, attractively printed and...

    £950

  10. CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA (Titus Flavius CLEMENS). 

    Omnia opera. 

    Paris, Sebastien Nivelle, 1572. 

    A thoroughly annotated copy of this...

    £4750

  11. CONTI, Natale. 

    Mythologiæ, sive explicationis fabularum,...

    Frankfurt, the heirs of André Wechel, 1584. 

    The Mythologiae of Natale Conti...

    £950

  12. CURTIUS Rufus, Quintus. 

    De rebus Alexandri Magni, cum commentario...

    Utrecht, Franciscus Halma, 1685. 

    First Halma edition of Curtius’s history...

    £375

  13. DASSIER, Jean and Jacques-Antoine.

    ‘An Explanation of Dassier’s Medals...

    London, c. 1795-1800.

    An exceptionally fine illustrated manuscript,...

    £7500

  14. DIO CASSIUS.

    Dione historico delle guerre et fatti de...

    Venice, Niccolò Zoppino, March 1533.

    First edition of Dio’s Roman History...

    £2750

  15. DIOGENES LAERTIUS, [and Henri ESTIENNE (editor)].

    Περι βίων, δογμάτων και...

    [Geneva,] Henri Estienne, 1570.

    First Estienne edition of The Lives...

    £1400

  16. DU RONDEL, Jacques. 

    La vie d’Épicure. 

    Paris, Antoine Cellier, 1679. 

    First edition of Du Rondel’s Life...

    £1750

  17. EPICTETUS.

    To tou Epiktetou encheiridion. Ex editione...

    Glasgow, Foulis, 1751.

    The first miniature Foulis edition of...

    £900

  18. FLORUS, Lucius. 

    Lucii Flori rerum ab urbe condita liber...

    [Venice, in aedibus Aldi et Andreae Soceri,...

    Florus’s epitome of Roman history,...

    £750

  19. FREEMAN, Arthur.

    Catullus Carmen 17.6 and Other Mysteries....

    London, The Author, 2020.

    This partly historical, partly philological...

    £15

  20. FULBECKE, William.

    An Historicall Collection of the continuall...

    London, Printed for William Ponsonby. 1601.

    First edition. Fulbecke’s Historicall...

    £5250