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. PITOU, Louis-Ange.

    L’Urne des Stuarts et des Bourbons, ou...

    Paris, [Beraud for] L.A. Pitou, 31 August...

    First and only surviving edition of this...

    £650

  2. PLATO; [Marsilio FICINO].

    Platonis opera.

    [(Colophon:) Venice, Filippo Pinzi, 22...

    Third edition of Marsilio Ficino’s important...

    £5000

  3. PLINY the Younger. 

    Caii Plinii Caecilii Secundi Opera quae...

    Glasgow, Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1751.

    A handsome quarto Pliny from the Foulis...

    £600

  4. PLINY the Younger. 

    Caii Plinii Caecilii Secundi Opera quae...

    Glasgow, Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1751.

    A handsome Foulis Press pocket Pliny. The...

    £850

  5. PLINY the Younger.

    Panegyricus Trajano Augusto dictus.

    Paris, [Charles Crapelet for] Antoine-Augustin...

    An attractive edition of Pliny’s only...

    £275

  6. PLUTARCH.

    La seconda & ultima parte delle vite di...

    Venice, Nicolao di Aristotile detto Zoppino,...

    An attractive illustrated edition of twenty-seven...

    £2750

  7. PLUTARCH.

    Τα εθικα. Moralia, id est opera,...

    Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1795–1800;...

    Gaisford’s own copy of the Oxford Plutarch...

    £2500

  8. POCOCKE, Richard. 

    A Description of the East, and some other...

    ...

    First edition, demy folio issue. A successful...

    £8000

  9. POPE, [Alexander].

    The second Epistle of the second Book of...

    London, R. Dodsley, 1737.

    First edition, the issue (presumably early)...

    £275

  10. POPE, [Alexander].

    The sixth Epistle of the first Book of...

    London, L. Gilliver, 1737.

    First edition. Foxon P965; Rothschild 1638;...

    £250

  11. [POPE, Alexander.]

    The Dunciad. An heroic Poem. In three Books....

    ‘Dublin, Printed; London, Re-printed...

    Second edition, rare, and of considerable...

    £4500

  12. [PRAYER-BOOK.]

    The new and complete Family Prayer-Book,...

    London: Printed for Alex. Hogg … [1784-5.]

    First edition thus, rare, published in...

    £950

  13. [PRAYERBOOK.]

    ‘Gebetbuch’.

    [Germany, early nineteenth century.]

    An attractive early nineteenth-century...

    £185

  14. [PRAYERS.] 

    ‘Orationes diversae pro temporum opportunitate...

    [Likely Lucca, late eighteenth century.] 

    A delightful manuscript prayerbook for...

    £475

  15. [PRAYERS.] 

    Récueil de plusieurs prieres.   

    Vienna, ‘chez Georg Müllner libraire...

    Very rare and charming early nineteenth-century...

    £450

  16. [PRAYERS.]

    The New-Years-Gift, complete: in six Parts....

    London, Henry Mortlock, 1700.

    Unrecorded edition of a very popular collection...

    £1200

  17. PRESENT FOR THE YOUNG (A).

    London: Printed for The Religious Tract...

    [c. 1827]

    First edition. A finely illustrated anthology...

    £175

  18. [PRIMER.]

    Preces privatae, in studiosorum gratia[m]...

    London, William Seres, 1568.

    Second edition of this rare ‘private’...

    £4250

  19. PRIOR, Matthew.

    Poems on several Occasions.

    London, printed for Jacob Tonson and John...

    First edition, a subscriber’s copy on...

    £5000

  20. PROPERTIUS; Oliffe Legh RICHMOND, editor.

    Sexti Properti quae supersunt opera, edidit...

    Cambridge, University Press, 1928.

    First edition of Richmond’s controversial...

    £400