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. SABELLICO, Marco Antonio (or Marcantonio) Coccio; Petrus PONTANUS (or Du Pont, De Brugge).

    Sanctissime elegie de intemerata virgine...

    Paris, Jean de Gourmont, [c. 1513].

    One of only two recorded editions, both...

    £1400

  2. SALLUST.

    C. Sallustius Crispus cum veterum Historicorum...

    Leiden, ex officina Elzeviriana, 1634.

    The first small format Elzevir printing...

    £950

  3. SALLUST.

    Caii Sallustii Crispi quae extant.

    London, James Tonson and John Watts, 1713.

    First Maittaire edition. The French-born...

    £300

  4. ‘SANCTA CLARA, Abraham a’, i.e. Johann Ulrich MEGERLE.

    Coraggio e viltà, l’uno nella virtù,...

    Trento, Giovanni Parone, 1717.

    Scarce first and only Italian edition of...

    £2250

  5. [SAVONAROLA, Girolamo.] Ambrogio Caterino POLITI.

    Discorso … contra la dottrina, et le...

    Venice, Giolito, 1548.

    First edition of a condemnation of Savonarola’s...

    £1500

  6. SCHEFFER, Johannes Gerhard. 

    Constantini Opelii de fabrica triremium...

    ‘Eleuteropoli’ [Freistadt?], 1672. 

    First edition of this treatise on the ancient...

    £875

  7. [SCOTT, Walter, Sir.]

    Ivanhoe; A Romance. By “The Author of...

    Edinburgh, [James Ballantyne & Co.] for...

    Stated second edition but in fact a third...

    £375

  8. SENECA the Younger, and SENECA the Rhetorician.

    L. Annaei Senecae philosophi opera omnia;...

    Leiden, [Bonaventure & Abraham] Elzevir,...

    First Elzevir edition of the moral works...

    £500

  9. [SHANGHAI.]

    Shanghai of To-day. A Souvenir Album of...

    Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Singapore, Kelly...

    Third edition, revised and enlarged (first...

    £1250

  10. [SIBYLLINE ORACLES.]

    Σιβυλλιακοι χρησμοι hoc...

    Paris, [Compagnie du grande navire,] 1607.

    Second edition, handsomely printed in three...

    £1200

  11. SILIUS ITALICUS, C.; John CAREY, editor.

    Punicorum libri XVII, sedulâ recensione...

    London, T. Davison for Rodwell & Martin,...

    First and only ‘Regent’s Classics’...

    £100

  12. SIMEONI, Gabriele.

    Le III parti del campo de primi studii...

    [(Colophon:) Venice, Comin da Trino], 1546.

    First edition of this early work by Simeoni,...

    £950

  13. SIMONETTA, Bonifacio.

    De Christiane Fidei et Romanorum Pontificum...

    [(Colophon:) Basel, Nicolaus Kesler, 1509.]

    A beautiful copy of the second edition...

    £4500

  14. [SOCIETY OF JESUS.] 

    Les découvertes d’un bibliophile réduites...

    Strasbourg, L.F.  Le Roux, [1843]. 

    First edition of this scathing response...

    £375

  15. SOPHOCLES.

    ‘Αι του Σοφοκλεους τραγωδιαι...

    Eton, Joseph Pote; and sold by C. Bathurst...

    An attractive Eton-printed edition of Thomas...

    £400

  16. [SOPHOCLES.]

    Tragoediae superstites et deperditarum...

    Oxford, University Press, 1832.

    First Oxford edition of the Sophocles of...

    £200

  17. SOPHOCLES. 

    Tragoediae Sophoclis quotquot extant carmine...

    Antwerp, Jean Bellère, 1584.

    An early seventeenth-century sammelband...

    £950

  18. SOPHOCLES; Adrien TURNÈBE, editor.

    Τραγωδιαι. Αιαξ μαστιγοφορος....

    Paris, Adrien Turnèbe, 1553 [(colophon:)...

    A wide-margined copy of Sophocles in Greek...

    £1850

  19. SPATARI, Pellegrino.

    Le orationi delle Messe di tutto l’anno,...

    Pesaro, Bartolomeo Cesano, 1555.

    Rare first edition of this Italian translation...

    £650

  20. [SPENCE, Joseph.] Nicholas TINDAL.

    A Guide to classical Learning: or, Polymetis...

    London, J. Dodsley, 1777.

    Second illustrated edition (fourth overall)...

    £250