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. CONTI, Natale.

    Mythologiae, sive explicationis fabularum,...

    Frankfurt, the heirs of Andreas Wechel, 1584.

    Scarce Frankfurt edition of the Mythologiae...

    £950

  2. CURTIUS RUFUS, Quintus.

    De rebus gestis Alexandri Magni regis Macedonum...

    Basel, Hieronymus Froben and Nicolaus...

    Handsome folio edition of Curtius Rufus’...

    £2000

  3. DIO CASSIUS.

    Dione historico delle guerre et fatti de...

    Venice, Niccolò Zoppino, March 1533.

    First edition of Dio Cassius’s Roman...

    £2500

  4. DIODORUS Siculus.

    Bibliothecae historicae libri XV. Hoc est,...

    Basel, Heinrich Petri, August 1559.

    Important edition, the first to be overseen...

    £2500

  5. DIONYSIUS of Halicarnassus.

    Antiquitatum Rom. libri XI. Ab Aemylio...

    Geneva, Jacob Stoer, 1614.

    A rare pocket-sized edition of Dionysius...

    £450

  6. DOMINICUS DE FLANDRIA.

    Dominici de Flandria ordinis predicator[um]...

    Venice, Giorgio Arrivabene for the heirs...

    Scarce early editions of two Aristotelian...

    £3000

  7. [DOVES PRESS.] 

    Pervigilium Veneris. 

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

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

    £950

  8. EPICTETUS.

    Το του Επικτητου εγχειριδιον....

    Glasgow, Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1751.

    The first miniature Foulis edition of Epictetus...

    £650

  9. FLORUS, L. Annaeus; Lucius AMPELIUS; Claude SAUMAISE, editor.

    [Rerum romanarum libri IV and Epitome...

    Leiden, Elzevir, 1638.

    The attractive Elzevir edition of Florus’...

    £650

  10. FLORUS, Lucius. 

    Lucii Flori rerum ab urbe condita liber...

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

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

    £750

  11. FREEMAN, Arthur.

    Catullus Carmen 17.6 and Other Mysteries....

    London, The Author, 2020.

    This partly historical, partly philological...

    £15

  12. FULBECKE, William.

    An Historicall Collection of the continuall...

    London, Printed for William Ponsonby. 1601.

    First edition of Fulbecke’s Historicall...

    £5250

  13. GAZA, Theodorus.

    Grammatica introductiva; De mensibus; Apollonius...

    [(Colophon:) Venice, Aldus Manutius, 25...

    A beautiful example of early Greek printing,...

    £45000

  14. GELLIUS, Aulus.

    Auli Gellii luculentissimi scriptoris Noctes...

    Lyon, Sebastian Gryphius, 1555.

    Gryphius edition of Aulus Gellius’ famous...

    £650

  15. GELLIUS, Aulus; [Johann Friedrich GRONOVIUS, editor].

    Noctes atticae: editio nova et prioribus...

    Amsterdam, Jan Jansson, 1651.

    Jansson’s piracy of Gronovius’s celebrated...

    £450

  16. GOODWIN, Thomas.

    Romanae Historiae Anthologia … An English...

    Oxford, Leonard Lichfield for Henry Cripps,...

    Early editions of these two popular schoolbooks...

    £1600

  17. GOODWIN, Thomas.

    Romanae Historiae Anthologia … An English...

    London, R.W. for Peter Parker, 1661.

    A wholly unsophisticated Restoration sammelband...

    £850

  18. HERMOGENES.

    Τεχνη ρητορικη τελειοτατη....

    Geneva, Pierre Aubert, 1614.

    A parallel text edition of Hermogenes in...

    £750

  19. HIEROCLES of Alexandria.

    Ύπομνηνα εις τα των Πυθαγορειων...

    London, J. R. [John Redmayne] for J. Williams,...

    London edition of the only complete work...

    £500

  20. HIPPOCRATES.

    The Eight Sections of Hippocrates Aphorismes...

    London, W. G. for Rob. Crofts, 1665.

    First edition of this translation of the...

    £850