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. HIERONYMUS de Villa Vitis.

    Panis quotidianus de tempore [– de sanctis...

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

    First edition, bound and handsomely rubricated...

    £5000

  2. HIPPOCRATES.

    The Eight Sections of Hippocrates Aphorismes...

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

    First edition of this translation of the...

    £850

  3. HOFFMEISTER, Johann.

    Loci communes rerum theologicarum, quae...

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

    First edition. In the dedication to the...

    £500

  4. HOMER; Hubert VAN GIFFEN, editor.

    Οδυσσεια … Odyssea … Batrachomyomachia,...

    Cum praefatione, scholiis, & indice …...

    First Rihel edition of the Odyssey,...

    £850

  5. HOMER, and Alexander POPE (translator).

    The Iliad of Homer. Translated from the...

    McCulloch, P. Stuart, 1795.

    First American edition of Pope’s rendering...

    £850

  6. [HOMILETIC.] 

    Meditations de la seconde annee. 

    [France, c. 1700.] 

    Apparently unpublished set of meditations...

    £750

  7. HORACE.

    ...

    Edinburgh, George Mosman, 1704.

    A rare, modestly printed Scottish Horace,...

    £450

  8. HORACE.

    Quinti Horatii Flacci Opera cum novo commentario...

    Paris, Didot, 1855.

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

    £750

  9. HORACE.

    Quinti Horatii Flacci poemata, novis scholiis...

    [Geneva, Henri Estienne, 1574.]

    First Henri Estienne edition of the works...

    £2500

  10. 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

  11. [HOSPICE SAINT-NICOLAS, METZ.]

    Deed granting land to the hospice.

    Metz, 5 May 1464.

    A significant document recording the grant...

    £450

  12. HOSPINIAN, Rudolf. 

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

    Zurich, Johannes Rudolph Wolf, 1670. 

    Second edition of Hospinian’s vast and...

    £800

  13. HOSSCHIUS, Sidronius.

    Sidronii Hosschii e Societate Iesu elegiarum...

    Antwerp, Balthasar Moretus ‘ex officina...

    First collected edition of the neo-Latin...

    £600

  14. HURTADO, Eugenio, scribe.

    [Missal for feast days.]

    Madrid, 1827.

    An extraordinary and enormous liturgical...

    £7500

  15. HYGINUS Gromaticus, attributed, and POLYBIUS.

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

    Amsterdam, Jodocus Pluymer, 1660.

    First edition thus, with annotations by...

    £1000

  16. IBN VERGA, Solomon; Georg GENTIUS, translator.

    Historia Judaica res Judaeorum ab eversa...

    Amsterdam, Pieter Niellius, 1651.

    First Latin edition of Solomon Ibn Verga’s...

    £3750

  17. [INCUNABLE SAMMELBAND.]

    Sammelband of ten works.

    Rome, Stephan Plannck and Eucharius Silber,...

    A sammelband of ten Roman incunables, nine...

    £25000

  18. [INDULGENCE.] 

    Letter of Indulgence (in Catalan),...

    [Lerida, Heinrich Botel, c. 1498.] 

    Extremely rare incunable indulgence in...

    £34000

  19. [INDULGENCES.] 

    Indulgencias concedidas a los congregantes...

    [Barcelona, 1793.] 

    Very rare broadside detailing the indulgences...

    £175

  20. IRENICUS, Franciscus.

    Germaniae exegeseos volumina duodecima...

    [(Colophon:) Hagenau, Thomas Anshelm for...

    First editions of a pair of sixteenth-century...

    £3500