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. LUCILIUS, Gaius; Franciscus DOUSA, editor.

    Satyrarum quae supersunt reliquiae. Franciscus...

    Leiden, Franciscus Raphelengius, ex Officina...

    First edition of the earliest Roman satirical...

    £950

  2. LUCRETIUS. 

    Titi Lucretii Cari de rerum natura libri...

    Padua, Giuseppe Comino [for Volpi], 2...

    First Volpi–Comino edition of Lucretius’s...

    £450

  3. LUDOLPH of Saxony.

    Vita Christi.

    Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 20 December 1478.

    Early incunable edition of Ludolph of Saxony’s...

    £45000

  4. LUDOPHUS of Saxony. 

    In Psal. David, diligentiss. Simul, &...

    [Lyons,] A. Vincent, [1542]. 

    Uncommon and significant edition of one...

    £2000

  5. LUIGINI, Francesco.

    In librum Q. Horatii Flacci de arte poetica...

    Venice, [(colophon:) sons of] Aldus, 1554.

    First and only edition of Luigini’s commentary...

    £850

  6. MACROBIUS, Ambrosius Theodosius.

    Somnium Scipionis ex Ciceronis libro De...

    Venice, Filippo Pinzi, 29 October 1500.

    Sixth and last incunable edition of Macrobius,...

    £9500

  7. MAGGI, Lorenzo. 

    I sacri hinni, che si leggono in tutto...

    Venice, Francesco Rampazetto, 1567.

    Very rare first edition of this collection...

    £500

  8. MAGNON, Jean. 

    Les heures du Chrestien, divisées en trois...

    Paris, se vendent chez l’autheur …...

    First edition of this handsomely illustrated...

    £650

  9. MAILLARD, Olivier.

    Sermones de sanctis reverendi patris fratris...

    Cologne, Cornelius von Zierickzee, 30...

    Very rare edition of a collection of sermons...

    £1500

  10. [MAILLES, Jacques de.]

    La tresioyeuse plaisante & recreative hystoire...

    Paris, [(colophon:) Nicolas Cousteau for]...

    First edition of Jacques de Mailles’...

    £12500

  11. [MARABOTTA, Cattaneo.] 

    Vita della serafica S. Caterina da Genova. 

    Genoa, Tipografia Frugoni, 1832. 

    Rare first edition thus, an attractive...

    £185

  12. [MARIAN DEVOTION.]

    Embroidered silk panel depicting the Virgin...

    [Netherlands, early eighteenth century?]

    A delightful silk panel, embroidered over...

    £600

  13. MARKISH, Peretz Davidovich.

    Rubezh. Izbrannye stikhi [Threshold....

    [Selected poems]. Moscow, Goslitizdat, 1933.

    First edition in Russian of the first book...

    £1800

  14. MARLIANI, Bartolomeo.

    Urbis Romae topographia.

    Rome, Valerio & Luigi Dorico, September 1544.

    First illustrated edition (third overall),...

    £5500

  15. MARSILIUS of Inghen, GILES of Rome, and ALBERT of Saxony.

    Marsilii de genera[tione et corruptione]....

    [(Colophon:) Venice, [Boneto Locatello...

    A trio of late thirteenth- and fourteenth-century...

    £1500

  16. MARTIAL.

    Epigrammaton libri XIII. Ex fide vetustissimorum...

    Paris, Jean Libert, 1612 [(colophon:) 1613].

    An uncommon small-format edition of Martial’s...

    £650

  17. [MASCHERANA, Girolamo.]

    Concordia tra la società e la religione...

    Milan, Cesare Orena nella stamperia Malatesta,...

    Rare second edition, printed in the same...

    £375

  18. [MASS.]

    Cerimonie piu’ notabili della messa privata;...

    Turin, Gianfranco Mairesse, 1739.

    An apparently unrecorded edition of...

    £300

  19. MAUGIN, Jean.

    Histoire du noble Tristan, prince de Leonnois,...

    Paris, Nicolas Bonfons, 1586.

    A scarce edition of the New Tristan,...

    £4750

  20. MAURIZI, Maria Luisa.

    Morali e divote riflessioni a tutti utilissime...

    Rome, Tipografia della Pia Unione alle...

    Uncommon first edition of this collection...

    £150