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.
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GAZA, Theodorus.
Grammatica introductiva; De mensibus; Apollonius...
[(Colophon:) Venice, Aldus Manutius, 25...
A beautiful example of early Greek printing,...
£45000
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LACTANTIUS.
Opera.
[Venice,] Vindelinus de Spira, 1472.
Magnificent incunable edition of the works...
£25000
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CAESAR, Gaius Julius.
C. Julii Caesaris quae extant. Accuratissime...
London, Jacob Tonson, 1712.
First edition of the celebrated Tonson’s...
£9500
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MACROBIUS, Ambrosius Theodosius.
Somnium Scipionis ex Ciceronis libro De...
Venice, Filippo Pinzi, 29 October 1500.
Sixth and last incunable edition of Macrobius,...
£9500
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THEOCRITUS et al.
Theocriti aliorumque poetarum Idyllia....
[Geneva], Henri Estienne, 1579.
An outstanding volume uniting the Estienne...
£9000
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POCOCKE, Richard.
A Description of the East, and some other...
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First edition, demy folio issue. A successful...
£8000
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LUCIAN of Samosata.
Opera graece et latine ad editionem Tiberii...
Zweibrücken, Typographia Societatis,...
Renouard’s copy of the Bipontine Lucian,...
£8000
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MARLIANI, Bartolomeo.
Urbis Romae topographia.
Rome, Valerio & Luigi Dorico, September 1544.
First illustrated edition (third overall),...
£5500
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FULBECKE, William.
An Historicall Collection of the continuall...
London, Printed for William Ponsonby. 1601.
First edition of Fulbecke’s Historicall...
£5250
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PLATO; [Marsilio FICINO].
Platonis opera.
[(Colophon:) Venice, Filippo Pinzi, 22...
Third edition of Marsilio Ficino’s important...
£5000
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CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA (Titus Flavius CLEMENS); Gentian HERVET, translator.
Omnia opera.
Paris, Sebastien Nivelle, 1572.
A thoroughly annotated copy of this early...
£4750
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[POPE, Alexander.]
The Dunciad. An heroic Poem. In three Books....
‘Dublin, Printed; London, Re-printed...
Second edition, rare, and of considerable...
£4500
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LIVY, Titus.
T. Livii Patauini […] ex XIIII Decadibus...
Paris, [Michel Vascosan for] Oudin Petit,...
A much-praised edition of Livy’s History,...
£3800
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CICERO, Marcus Tullius.
Marcus Tullius Ciceroes three Bookes of...
[London, Richard Tottel,] 1583.
Sixth edition of Grimald’s Cicero, first...
£3200
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APPIAN of Alexandria.
Civili. Appiano Alessandrino delle guerre...
Venice, [Pietro Nicolini da Sabbio for...
A much-annotated copy of these late Aldine...
£3000
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DOMINICUS DE FLANDRIA.
Dominici de Flandria ordinis predicator[um]...
Venice, Giorgio Arrivabene for the heirs...
Scarce early editions of two Aristotelian...
£3000
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PLUTARCH.
La seconda & ultima parte delle vite di...
Venice, Nicolao di Aristotile detto Zoppino,...
An attractive illustrated edition of twenty-seven...
£2750
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ARISTIDES, Aelius.
Orationum tomi tres, nunc primum latine...
Basel, Peter Perna and Heinrich Petrus, 1566.
First edition in Latin, a remarkable copy...
£2750
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MERCURIALE, Girolamo.
De arte gymnastica libri sex, in quibus...
Venice, [Lucantonio II] Giunta, 1587.
Third edition of ‘the first illustrated...
£2750
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DIODORUS Siculus.
Bibliothecae historicae libri XV. Hoc est,...
Basel, Heinrich Petri, August 1559.
Important edition, the first to be overseen...
£2500