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. LIPPOMANO, Luigi. 

    Espositioni volgare del reveren. M. Luigi...

    Venice, Girolamo Scoto, 1541.

    First edition of this treatise on the Credo,...

    £450

  2. [LITURGY.] Girolamo GIOVANNINI, editor.

    Officium hebdomadae sanctae, juxta formam...

    Venice, ‘ex typographia Balleoniana’, 1742.

    Very rare small-format edition of the Offices...

    £275

  3. LIVY, Titus. 

    T. Livii Patauini […] ex XIIII Decadibus...

    Paris, [Michel Vascosan for] Oudin Petit,...

    A much-praised edition of Livy’s History,...

    £3800

  4. LONGINUS, [Pseudo-]; Jonathan TOUP and David RUHNKEN, editors.

    Quae supersunt Graece et Latine.

    Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1778.

    The first Toup edition of Longinus’ On...

    £375

  5. LUCAN.

    Pharsalia cum annotationibus in margine...

    Antwerp, Michael Hillenius, 1528.

    An uncommon edition of Lucan’s poem on...

    £2500

  6. LUCIAN of Samosata.

    Opera graece et latine ad editionem Tiberii...

    Zweibrücken, Typographia Societatis,...

    Renouard’s copy of the Bipontine Lucian,...

    £8000

  7. LUCIAN of Samosata; Étienne MOQUOT, editor.

    Luciani Samosatensis dialogi selecti. Cum...

    Lyons, Claude Obert, 1636.

    Uncommon parallel Greek and Latin edition...

    £375

  8. LUCRETIUS. 

    Titi Lucretii Cari de rerum natura libri...

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

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

    £450

  9. LUDOPHUS of Saxony. 

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

    [Lyons,] A. Vincent, [1542]. 

    Uncommon and significant edition of one...

    £2000

  10. 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

  11. MACROBIUS, Ambrosius Theodosius.

    Somnium Scipionis ex Ciceronis libro De...

    Venice, Filippo Pinzi, 29 October 1500.

    Sixth and last incunable edition of Macrobius,...

    £9500

  12. MAGGI, Lorenzo. 

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

    Venice, Francesco Rampazetto, 1567.

    Very rare first edition of this collection...

    £500

  13. MAGNON, Jean. 

    Les heures du Chrestien, divisées en trois...

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

    First edition of this handsomely illustrated...

    £650

  14. MANCINI, Celso. 

    Il padrino Christiano … per formare i...

    Ferrara, Vittorio Baldini, 1592. 

    Rare first edition of a meditational work...

    £950

  15. [MAPS.]

    ‘Carte du Vicariat Apost. de Péking...

    [China], 1896.

    Two handsome maps providing a snapshot...

    £1800

  16. [MARABOTTA, Cattaneo.] 

    Vita della serafica S. Caterina da Genova. 

    Genoa, Tipografia Frugoni, 1832. 

    Rare first edition thus, an attractive...

    £185

  17. [MARIAN DEVOTION.]

    Embroidered silk panel depicting the Virgin...

    [Netherlands, early eighteenth century?]

    A delightful silk panel, embroidered over...

    £600

  18. MARKISH, Peretz Davidovich.

    Rubezh. Izbrannye stikhi [Threshold....

    [Selected poems]. Moscow, Goslitizdat, 1933.

    First edition in Russian of the first book...

    £1800

  19. MARLIANI, Bartolomeo.

    Urbis Romae topographia.

    Rome, Valerio & Luigi Dorico, September 1544.

    First illustrated edition (third overall),...

    £5500

  20. 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