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. HAEFTEN, Benedictus van.

    Regia via crucis.

    Antwerp, Ex officina Plantiniana Balthasaris...

    First edition of an important counter-reformation...

    £1100

  2. HEBER, Reginald, and Nicolas BARKER (editor).

    A Letter from India.

    The Roxburghe Club, 2020.

    'I do not expect that with fair prospects...

    £100

  3. HERMOGENES.

    Τεχνη ρητορικη τελειοτατη....

    Geneva, Pierre Aubert, 1614.

    A parallel text edition of Hermogenes in...

    £750

  4. HERP, Hendrik.

    Speculum aureum decem praeceptorum Dei.

    [(Colophon:) Mainz, Peter Schoeffer, 10...

    First edition of this collection of sermons...

    £24000

  5. HIEROCLES of Alexandria.

    Ύπομνηνα εις τα των Πυθαγορειων...

    London, J. R. [John Redmayne] for J. Williams,...

    London edition of the only complete work...

    £500

  6. HIERONYMUS de Villa Vitis.

    Panis quotidianus de tempore [– de sanctis...

    [(Colophon:) Hagenau, Heinrich Gran for...

    First edition, bound and handsomely rubricated...

    £5000

  7. HIPPOCRATES.

    The Eight Sections of Hippocrates Aphorismes...

    London, W. G. for Rob. Crofts, 1665.

    First edition of this translation of the...

    £850

  8. HOFFMEISTER, Johann.

    Loci communes rerum theologicarum, quae...

    [(Colophon:) Ingolstadt, Alexander Weissenhorn,...

    First edition. In the dedication to the...

    £500

  9. HOMER; Hubert VAN GIFFEN, editor.

    Οδυσσεια … Odyssea … Batrachomyomachia,...

    Cum praefatione, scholiis, & indice …...

    First Rihel edition of the Odyssey,...

    £850

  10. HOMER, and Alexander POPE (translator).

    The Iliad of Homer. Translated from the...

    McCulloch, P. Stuart, 1795.

    First American edition of Pope’s rendering...

    £850

  11. [HOMILETIC.] 

    Meditations de la seconde annee. 

    [France, c. 1700.] 

    Apparently unpublished set of meditations...

    £750

  12. HORACE.

    ...

    Edinburgh, George Mosman, 1704.

    A rare, modestly printed Scottish Horace,...

    £450

  13. HORACE.

    Quinti Horatii Flacci Opera cum novo commentario...

    Paris, Didot, 1855.

    The deluxe issue of Didot’s Horace, a...

    £750

  14. HORACE.

    Quinti Horatii Flacci poemata, novis scholiis...

    [Geneva, Henri Estienne, 1574.]

    First Henri Estienne edition of the works...

    £2500

  15. HORACE; James TATE, editor

    Horatius restitutus: or the books...

    Cambridge, J. Smith for J. & J.J. Deighton,...

    First edition of this attempt to arrange...

    £150

  16. [HOSPICE SAINT-NICOLAS, METZ.]

    Deed granting land to the hospice.

    Metz, 5 May 1464.

    A significant document recording the grant...

    £450

  17. HOSPINIAN, Rudolf. 

    Historia Jesuitica.  Hoc est, de origine,...

    Zurich, Johannes Rudolph Wolf, 1670. 

    Second edition of Hospinian’s vast and...

    £800

  18. HOSSCHIUS, Sidronius.

    Sidronii Hosschii e Societate Iesu elegiarum...

    Antwerp, Balthasar Moretus ‘ex officina...

    First collected edition of the neo-Latin...

    £600

  19. HURTADO, Eugenio, scribe.

    [Missal for feast days.]

    Madrid, 1827.

    An extraordinary and enormous liturgical...

    £7500

  20. HYGINUS Gromaticus, attributed, and POLYBIUS.

    De Castris Romanis, quae extant. Cum notis...

    Amsterdam, Jodocus Pluymer, 1660.

    First edition thus, with annotations by...

    £1000