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. LA VIGNE, André de.

    Le vergier dhonneur nouvellement imprime...

    [(Colophon:) Paris, Philippe le Noir],...

    George Dunn’s copy of a rare early edition...

    £9500

  2. LE GROS, Nicolas.

    Meditations sur les epistres Catholiques...

    Paris, chez Savoye, 1754.

    First edition of this extensive work of...

    £1250

  3. LELAND, John.

    The Itinerary of John Leland, in or about...

    London, Centaur Press Ltd, 1964.

    The authoritative edition of Leland’s...

    £50

  4. [LEXICON.] [ALENIUS, Arnoldus, i.e. Arnout van EYNDHOUTS.]

    Lexicon Graecolatinum post omnes hactenus...

    Venice, Alessandro Brucioli and brothers...

    First edition of the Lexicon edited by...

    £2000

  5. LIPPOMANO, Luigi. 

    Espositioni volgare del reveren. M. Luigi...

    Venice, Girolamo Scoto, 1541.

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

    £450

  6. [LITURGY.] Girolamo GIOVANNINI, editor.

    Officium hebdomadae sanctae, juxta formam...

    Venice, ‘ex typographia Balleoniana’, 1742.

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

    £275

  7. LIVY, Titus. 

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

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

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

    £3800

  8. LOMBARDI, Giovanni Francesco.

    Oratio habita in synodo Tridentina die...

    Brescia, Lodovico Sabbio, [1561?].

    First edition of this sermon delivered...

    £3750

  9. 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

  10. LORICH, Gerhard.

    Institutio catholica fidei orthodoxae et...

    [Frankfurt am Main], [(colophon:) Christian...

    First editions of a pair of Reformation-era...

    £1450

  11. LUCAN.

    Pharsalia cum annotationibus in margine...

    Antwerp, Michael Hillenius, 1528.

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

    £2500

  12. LUCIAN of Samosata.

    Opera graece et latine ad editionem Tiberii...

    Zweibrücken, Typographia Societatis,...

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

    £8000

  13. LUCIAN of Samosata.

    Opera, quae quidem extant, omnia, e Graeco...

    Lyons, Jean Frellon, 1549.

    First Lyons edition of the works of Lucian...

    £3750

  14. LUCIAN of Samosata; Étienne MOQUOT, editor.

    Luciani Samosatensis dialogi selecti. Cum...

    Lyons, Claude Obert, 1636.

    Uncommon parallel Greek and Latin edition...

    £375

  15. LUCRETIUS. 

    Titi Lucretii Cari de rerum natura libri...

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

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

    £450

  16. LUDOLPH of Saxony.

    Vita Christi.

    Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 20 December 1478.

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

    £45000

  17. LUDOPHUS of Saxony. 

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

    [Lyons,] A. Vincent, [1542]. 

    Uncommon and significant edition of one...

    £2000

  18. 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

  19. MACROBIUS, Ambrosius Theodosius.

    Somnium Scipionis ex Ciceronis libro De...

    Venice, Filippo Pinzi, 29 October 1500.

    Sixth and last incunable edition of Macrobius,...

    £9500

  20. MAGGI, Lorenzo. 

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

    Venice, Francesco Rampazetto, 1567.

    Very rare first edition of this collection...

    £500