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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ALBERTI, Leon Battista.
El Momo. La moral e muy graciosa historia...
Alcalá de Henares, Joan Mey Flandro, 1553.
First edition in Spanish of Alberti’s...
£3800
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ARNIGIO, Bartolomeo.
Rime dell’Arnigio per la ill[ustre] signora...
Brescia, Giovanni Battista Bozzola, 1566.
First edition of Bartolomeo Arnigio’s...
£1750
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BARTOLI, Adolfo.
Scenari inediti della Commedia dell’arte....
Florence, Sansoni, 1880.
Rare first edition, one of only 350...
£500
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BLANCHON, Jacques.
Iacobi Blanchoni ucessiensis adversus Ludovicum...
Lyon, Jean de Tournes, 1550.
First edition of a very rare work of...
£950
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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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CAVALCANTI, Bartolomeo.
La retorica … divisa in sette libri,...
Venice, Gabriel Giolitto, 1559.
Second edition, published in the same...
£2250
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EPIPHANIUS.
Κατα αιρεσεων ογδοηκοτα...
Basel, [Johann Herwagen, 1544].
Editio princeps of the Greek...
£5000
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EUCHERIUS, Johannes (pseud.).
Gratiarum actio. Wirtembergensibus et Tubingensibus...
Christopoli [i.e. Poznań, J. Wolrab], 1585.
Very rare early imprint from Poznań, one...
£800
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LELAND, John.
The Itinerary of John Leland, in or about...
London, Centaur Press Ltd, 1964.
The authoritative edition of Leland’s...
£75
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LELAND, John.
The Itinerary of John Leland, in or about...
London, Centaur Press Ltd, 1964.
The authoritative edition of Leland’s...
£50
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LUTHER, Martin.
Eyn Sendbriff … uber die frage. Ob...
[Wittenberg, N. Schirlentz, 1522].
First edition, rare, of a momentous...
£1500
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MORI, Ascanio de’.
Giuoco piacevole.
Mantua, Giacomo Ruffinello, 1575.
First edition of a rare Renaissance...
£1800
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PARABOSCO, Girolamo.
Libro primo [- quarto] delle lettere amorose...
Venice, Domenico Farri, 1581.
Uncommon collected edition of Girolamo...
£900
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PATRICIUS, Franciscus (Croatian: Franjo Petriš or Frane Petrić, Italian: Francesco Patrizi).
Della poetica di Francesco Patrizi. [Part...
Ferrara, Vittorio Baldini, 1586.
First edition, a copy with contemporary...
£1250
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PIUS II (Nicolaus von WYLE, editor).
Epistolae familiares.
Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 17 July 1486.
Second Koberger edition of the Epistolae...
£7500
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[QUARITCH.]
Guillaume Postel (1510–1581).
Quaritch, 2006.
A catalogue of a collection of the works...
£60
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[RICHEOME, Louis].
La vérité defendue pour la religion catholique....
Toulouse, Veuve de Jacques Colomiez, 1595.
First edition of Richeome’s vindication...
£1200
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RIDOLFI, Luca Antonio.
Aretefila, dialogo, nel quale da una parte...
Lyons, Guillaume Rouillé, 1562.
Annotated copy, once owned by a music...
£2800
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[ROZIER.]
Le rozier historial de France contenant...
Paris, [Gilles Couteau for François Regnault],...
First edition, the very handsome...£25000
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[SAVONAROLA]. POLITO, Ambrogio Caterino.
Discorso … contra la dottrina, et le...
Venice, Giolito, 1548.
First edition, very rare (‘raro e...
£1500