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. [THUMB BIBLE.]

    The Bible in Miniature, or a concise History...

    London, J. Harris, 1778.

    A very rare thumb bible, the last Harris...

    £1500

  2. TOMPSON, John, editor.

    English Miscellanies consisting of various...

    Gottingen by Abram. Vandenhoeck, Printer...

    Second edition, revised, of John Tompson’s...

    £300

  3. TRIMMER, [Sarah], Mrs.

    An Explanation of the Office for the public...

    London, printed for T. Longman, and G. G. J. and...

    First edition, dedicated with the Queen’s...

    £650

  4. TUCKER, Josiah.

    Betydande frågor om handelen, wid tilfålle...

    [v. Oelreich], 1763.

    First Swedish edition, scarce, of this...

    £200

  5. TYRE, William, Archbishop of, and Giuseppe OROLOGGI (translator).

    Historia della guerra sacra di Gierusalemme,...

    Venice, Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1562.

    First Italian edition of William of Tyre’s...

    £2800

  6. URCEO, Antonio.

    Hoc Codri volumine haec continentur. Orationes,...

    Bologna, Giovanni Antonio Benedetti, 7...

    First edition of a quintessential piece...

    £3000

  7. URSINIS, Bartholomaeus de.

    [Quadragesimale quod dicitur Gratia Dei.]

    [Naples, Francesco del Tuppo for Bernardinus...

    First and only edition, a handsome, wide-margined...

    £27500

  8. VALERIUS FLACCUS, Gaius, and Louis CARRIO, translator

    Argonauticon … libri VIII, a Ludovico...

    Antwerp, Christopher Plantin, [15 July] 1565. 

    First edition, a very attractive copy,...

    £1250

  9. VALERIUS FLACCUS, Gaius; Giovanni Battista PIO, editor.

    Argonautica. Joan. Baptistae Pii carmen...

    Lyon, Sébastien Gryphe, 1548.

    A pocket-sized edition of several poetic...

    £475

  10. VALERIUS MAXIMUS, Gaius.

    Valerii Maximi dictorum, & factorum memorabilium...

    [(Colophon:) Sélestat, Lazarus Schürer,...

    Very rare edition of Valerius Maximus printed...

    £2250

  11. VALERIUS MAXIMUS, Gaius.

    Dictorum factorumque memorabilium exempla....

    Carmagnola, Marcantonio Bellone, 1607.

    Rare edition of Valerius Maximus, provincially...

    £450

  12. VALLISNERI, Alberto Maria.

    Lettioni venti sopra gli alti, et ineffabili...

    Milan, Giovanni Battista da Ponte & fratelli,...

    Very rare first edition of a collection...

    £500

  13. [VAN DER STRAET, Jan, after.]

    Imperatorum XII a Suetonio descriptorum...

    [Netherlands or Rome, early seventeenth...

    A set of large-format equestrian portraits...

    £1500

  14. VELLEIUS PATERCULUS.

    Quae supersunt ex historiae Romanae voluminibus...

    Glasgow, Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1752.

    First and only Foulis Press edition, unusually...

    £425

  15. VIGER, François.

    De praecipuis graecae dictionis idiotismis...

    London, G. Godbid for William Shrowsberey,...

    Second London edition of this treatise...

    £175

  16. VIRGIL.

    Publii Virgilii Maronis opera, variorum...

    London, ‘typis E. Tyler et R. Holt...

    Rare student edition of the works of Virgil,...

    £650

  17. [VIRGIL.]  RAMUS, Petrus (Pierre de la RAMÉE). 

    Georgica, P. Rami … praelectionibus...

    Paris, André Wechel, 1564. 

    Second editions of Ramus’s extensive...

    £950

  18. VORAGINE, Jacobus de.

    Lombardica historia que a plerisque aurea...

    Strasbourg, [Georg Husner,] 1502.

    Jacobus de Voragine’s influential Legenda...

    £8000

  19. VORAGINE, Jacobus de.

    Sermones quadragesimales [– de tempore...

    [(Colophons:) Venice, Simon de Luere for...

    An annotated copy of Jacobus de Voragine’s...

    £3250

  20. [WALLET.]

    Wallet with manuscript and printed waste.

    France, c. 1790.

    An attractive late eighteenth-century wallet...

    £950