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. DONI, Anton Francesco.

    Mondi celesti, terrestri, et infernali,...

    Venice, Domenico Farri, 1567.

    A handsome copy of the second edition of...

    £850

  2. [DOVES PRESS.] 

    Pervigilium Veneris. 

    Hammersmith, ‘printed by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson...

    One of 150 copies on paper of the elusive...

    £950

  3. DRYDEN, John.

    Religio Laici or a Layman’s Faith. A Poem …

    London, Printed for Jacob Tonson … 1683.

    First edition, second issue (with a few...

    £400

  4. [DUQUESNE, Arnaud-Bernard d’Icard.]

    Vie de la vénérable mère Catherine de...

    Nancy, Claude-Sigisbert Lamort; Paris,...

    Uncommon biography of the French nun Mechtilde...

    £650

  5. ECK, Johann.

    Enchiridion locorum communium adversus...

    Lyons, Guillaume Rouillé, 1572.

    A rare pocket edition of Johann Eck’s...

    £375

  6. [EDWARD VII – COMMON PRAYER.]

    [Cover title: ‘Prayer Book of...

    [Norwood (MA), Plimpton Press for] New...

    Authorised American edition of the Essex...

    £500

  7. [EMBROIDERED BINDING.]

    Etrennes mignonnes, pour l’an de grace...

    Liège, Everard Kints, [1753].

    A charming almanack for 1753 printed in...

    £400

  8. EPICTETUS.

    Το του Επικτητου εγχειριδιον....

    Glasgow, Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1751.

    The first miniature Foulis edition of Epictetus...

    £650

  9. ERASMUS, Desiderius.

    Desid. Erasmi Roterodami Colloquia nunc...

    Amsterdam, Jodocus Janssonius, 1644.

    Later edition of Erasmus’ highly influential...

    £125

  10. EUCLID; Jean MAGNIEN and Stephanus GRACILIS, editors.

    Euclidis elementorum libri XV Graece et...

    Paris, Guillaume Cavellat, 1557.

    First edition of Euclid’s Elements...

    £5500

  11. EUNAPIUS; Hadrianus JUNIUS, translator; Hieronymus COMMELIN, editor.

    Βιοι φιλοσοφων και σοφιστων...

    ‘Cologny’ [Geneva], Samuel Crespin, 1616.

    An uncommon edition of the twenty-four...

    £450

  12. EUSEBIUS CAESARIENSIS; RUFINUS AQUILEIENSIS, translator.

    Historia ecclesiastica.

    Rome, Johannes Philippus de Lignamine,...

    The Syston Park copy of the earliest history...

    £4500

  13. EUSTRATIUS of Nicaea, et al.; ARISTOTLE.

    Ευστρατιου και αλλων...

    [(Colophon:) Venice, heirs of Aldus Manutius...

    Editio princeps of the Greek commentaries...

    £5500

  14. FAGNANI, Giovanni Marco. 

    De bello Arriano libri sex. 

    Milan, heirs of Pacifico da Ponte and...

    First and only edition of the sole published...

    £900

  15. FARINGTON, Susan Maria (illustrator). 

    The 104th Psalm.  Illustrated by Susan...

    ...

    The Faringtons or Ffaringtons were an ancient...

    £650

  16. FERRAZZI, Marc’Antonio.

    Dissertationes criticae in linguam hebraicam …

    Padua, ‘Typis Seminarii’, 1691.

    Rare first edition of this philological...

    £600

  17. FIAMMA, Gabriele. 

    Prediche del reverendo don Gabriel Fiamma,...

    Venice, Francesco Senese, 1570.

    Scarce third edition of this collection...

    £400

  18. [FILLASTRE], Guillaume.

    Le premier [– second] volume de la Thoison...

    Paris, Jean Petit [for Poncet Le Preux],...

    Rare third edition (first, 1516) of the...

    £9500

  19. FLORUS, Lucius. 

    Lucii Flori rerum ab urbe condita liber...

    [Venice, in aedibus Aldi et Andreae Soceri,...

    Florus’s epitome of Roman history, extracted...

    £750

  20. FORD, Simon.

    The Restoring of fallen Brethren: containing...

    London, Printed for Henry Mortlock … 1697.

    First edition, the last published work...

    £275