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. STANCOVICH, Pietro.

    Dello anfiteatro di Pola, dei gradi marmorei...

    Venice, Giuseppe Picotti, 1822.

    First edition, uncut in the original wrappers,...

    £275

  2. STAPLETON, Thomas. 

    Promptuarium Catholicum ad instructionem...

    Antwerp, Pierre Beller, 1592. 

    Rare third edition, expanded, of Stapleton’s...

    £700

  3. STATIUS, P. Papinius; John CAREY, editor.

    Opera, sedula recensione accurata [cover: Recensuit...

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

    An attractive copy, uncut in the publisher’s...

    £120

  4. STEPNIAK, Sergey. 

    דאָס אינטערערדישע רוסלאַנד...

    New York, Maks N. Maisel, 1921. 

    Scarce first American edition in Yiddish...

    £150

  5. SUETONIUS Tranquillus, Gaius, and HERODIAN OF ANTIOCH.

    Vita di duodeci imperatori… nuovamente...

    Venice, Venturino di Rossinelli [for Curzio...

    Annotated copy of a scarce edition of this...

    £1250

  6. SWIFT, Jonathan. 

    A Tale of a Tub … to which is added,...

    London, C. Bathurst, 1751. 

    A scarce later edition of Swift’s classic...

    £175

  7. SYKES, Arthur Ashley. 

    The Duty of Love to God, and to our Neighbours. ...

    London, J. Darby & T. Browne for Chelmsford,...

    First and only edition of this sermon given...

    £150

  8. TACITUS. 

    C. Cornelius Tacitus, cum optimis exemplaribus...

    Amsterdam, Daniel Elzevir, 1678. 

    A remarkably fresh set of the third and...

    £275

  9. TACITUS, Publius Cornelius; N. S. SMITH, translator.

    Dissertation on the Manners of the Germans,...

    London, George and William Budd Whittaker,...

    First edition, a seemingly unrecorded issue...

    £600

  10. [TACOLI, Carlotta Munarini, Marchioness.]

    ‘Memorie riguardanti la storia filosofica...

    Modena, 1805.

    An unpublished manuscript introduction...

    £1250

  11. TAULER, Johannes, attributed

    Exercitia D. Ioannis Thauleri piissima,...

    Antwerp, Philippus Nutius, 1565. 

    Uncommon Antwerp edition of Laurentius...

    £1500

  12. TERENCE.

    Les comedies … avec la traduction et...

    Rotterdam, Gaspar Fritsch, 1717.

    A fine edition of Anne Dacier’s French...

    £850

  13. TERENCE.

    Comediae sex. A M. Anto. Mureto locis...

    Carmagnola, Marcantonio Bellone, 1590.

    A rare provincial printing of a school...

    £375

  14. TERENCE Afer, Publius. 

    Comoediae sex, tum ex Donati commentariis...

    Paris, Robert Estienne, 1529. 

    First folio edition of Terence’s comedies...

    £1500

  15. TERENCE; Daniel HEINSIUS, editor.

    Pub. Terentii comoediae sex, ex recensione...

    Amsterdam, Henrik Wetstein, [c. 1700].

    A small-format edition of Terence’s comedies,...

    £145

  16. TERENTIUS Afer, Publius.

    Comoediae sex. Ex recensione Heinsiana,...

    Amsterdam, Jan Jansson, 1658.

    An intensely annotated copy of this rare...

    £2250

  17. THEOCRITUS et al.

    Theocriti aliorumque poetarum Idyllia....

    [Geneva], Henri Estienne, 1579.

    An outstanding volume uniting the Estienne...

    £9000

  18. TO THE PARLIAMENT OF ENGLAND,

    who are in Place to do Justice, and to...

    London, Printed for Thomas Simmons …, 1659.

    First edition, rare, a list of Quaker victims...

    £300

  19. [THOMAS À KEMPIS.]

    Messer Giovanni Gerson. Utile & divota...

    Florence, Piero Pacini da Pescia, 16 April...

    Scarce edition of an anonymous Italian...

    £4000

  20. THOMAS À KEMPIS.

    De imitatione Christi libri quatuor.

    ‘Leiden’ [Amsterdam], Elzevir, 1658.

    Second Elzevir edition of Thomas à Kempis’s...

    £675