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. EUSTRATIUS of Nicaea, et al.; ARISTOTLE.

    Ευστρατιου και αλλων...

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

    Editio princeps of the Greek commentaries...

    £5500

  2. EUTROPIUS; Sextus AURELIUS VICTOR; Sextus Rufus [FESTUS]. 

    Historiae romanae breviarium, ad codices...

    Paris, brothers Barbou, 1793.

    First edition by Capperonnier of this collection...

    £275

  3. FLORUS, Lucius. 

    Lucii Flori rerum ab urbe condita liber...

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

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

    £750

  4. FREEMAN, Arthur.

    Catullus Carmen 17.6 and Other Mysteries....

    London, The Author, 2020.

    This partly historical, partly philological...

    £15

  5. FULBECKE, William.

    An Historicall Collection of the continuall...

    London, Printed for William Ponsonby. 1601.

    First edition of Fulbecke’s Historicall...

    £5250

  6. GAZA, Theodorus.

    Grammatica introductiva; De mensibus; Apollonius...

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

    A beautiful example of early Greek printing,...

    £45000

  7. GELLIUS, Aulus.

    Auli Gellii luculentissimi scriptoris Noctes...

    Lyon, Sebastian Gryphius, 1555.

    Gryphius edition of Aulus Gellius’ famous...

    £650

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

    Noctes atticae: editio nova et prioribus...

    Amsterdam, Jan Jansson, 1651.

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

    £450

  9. GOODWIN, Thomas.

    Romanae Historiae Anthologia … An English...

    Oxford, Leonard Lichfield for Henry Cripps,...

    Early editions of these two popular schoolbooks...

    £1600

  10. GOODWIN, Thomas.

    Romanae Historiae Anthologia … An English...

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

    A wholly unsophisticated Restoration sammelband...

    £850

  11. HERMOGENES.

    Τεχνη ρητορικη τελειοτατη....

    Geneva, Pierre Aubert, 1614.

    A parallel text edition of Hermogenes in...

    £750

  12. HIEROCLES of Alexandria.

    Ύπομνηνα εις τα των Πυθαγορειων...

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

    London edition of the only complete work...

    £500

  13. HIPPOCRATES.

    The Eight Sections of Hippocrates Aphorismes...

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

    First edition of this translation of the...

    £850

  14. HORACE.

    ...

    Edinburgh, George Mosman, 1704.

    A rare, modestly printed Scottish Horace,...

    £450

  15. HORACE.

    Quinti Horatii Flacci poemata, novis scholiis...

    [Geneva, Henri Estienne, 1574.]

    First Henri Estienne edition of the works...

    £2500

  16. HORACE.

    Opera, interpretatione et notis illustravit...

    Venice, Typographia Balleoniana, 1797.

    An uncut copy in a patterned paper binding...

    £600

  17. HORACE; James TATE, editor

    Horatius restitutus: or the books...

    Cambridge, J. Smith for J. & J.J. Deighton,...

    First edition of this attempt to arrange...

    £150

  18. HYGINUS Gromaticus, attributed, and POLYBIUS.

    De Castris Romanis, quae extant. Cum notis...

    Amsterdam, Jodocus Pluymer, 1660.

    First edition thus, with annotations by...

    £1000

  19. ISOCRATES.

    Orationes et epistolae gravitatis et suavitatis...

    Paris, Michel de Vascosan, 1553.

    A handsome Latin edition of twenty-one...

    £750

  20. IVANOV, Vyacheslav Ivanovich.

    Прометей трагедия [Prometei...

    St Petersburg, “Alkonost”, 1919.

    First edition of Ivanov’s dramatic poem...

    £250