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. PEROTTO, Niccolò, and Benedetto BRUGNOLO, editor.

    Cornucopi[a]e nuper emendatum a domino...

    [Milan], Giovanni Giacomo and brothers...

    Scarce Milanese edition of Perotto’s...

    £1750

  2. PERSIUS; [Thomas BREWSTER, translator].

    The Satires of Persius translated into...

    London, Printed for A. Millar, 1751.

    Second edition, with the addition of Bayle’s...

    £375

  3. PERUCCI, Francesco.

    Pompe funebri di tutte le nationi del mondo,...

    Verona, Francesco Rossi, 1639.

    First edition of Perucci’s account of...

    £975

  4. PETRONIUS.

    Satyricon, eiusdemque fragmenta, illustrata...

    Leiden, Justus Livius, 1645.

    Third edition of the Satyricon as...

    £950

  5. PETRONIUS ARBITER, Titus.

    Satyricon; et diversorum poëtarum lusus...

    Utrecht, Gijsbert van Zijll and Dirck...

    A volume of Silver Age satire and lewd...

    £350

  6. PIGHIUS, Stephanus Vinandus.

    Themis dea, seu de lege divina … Mythologia...

    Antwerp, Christopher Plantin, 1568.

    First edition of Pighius’s two treatises...

    £450

  7. PINDAR. 

    Carmina, ex editione Chr. Gottl. Heyne. 

    Oxford, N. Bliss for M. Bliss and R. Bliss...

    An attractive Oxford-printed pocket edition...

    £175

  8. PLATO; [Marsilio FICINO].

    Platonis opera.

    [(Colophon:) Venice, Filippo Pinzi, 22...

    Third edition of Marsilio Ficino’s important...

    £5000

  9. PLINY the Younger. 

    Caii Plinii Caecilii Secundi Opera quae...

    Glasgow, Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1751.

    A handsome quarto Pliny from the Foulis...

    £600

  10. PLINY the Younger. 

    Caii Plinii Caecilii Secundi Opera quae...

    Glasgow, Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1751.

    A handsome Foulis Press pocket Pliny. The...

    £850

  11. PLINY the Younger.

    Panegyricus Trajano Augusto dictus.

    Paris, [Charles Crapelet for] Antoine-Augustin...

    An attractive edition of Pliny’s only...

    £275

  12. PLUTARCH.

    La seconda & ultima parte delle vite di...

    Venice, Nicolao di Aristotile detto Zoppino,...

    An attractive illustrated edition of twenty-seven...

    £2750

  13. PLUTARCH.

    Τα εθικα. Moralia, id est opera,...

    Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1795–1800;...

    Gaisford’s own copy of the Oxford Plutarch...

    £2500

  14. POCOCKE, Richard. 

    A Description of the East, and some other...

    ...

    First edition, demy folio issue. A successful...

    £8000

  15. POLLUX, Julius.

    Ονομαστικον εν βιβλιοις...

    Amsterdam, Wetstein, 1706.

    A crisp copy of Pollux’s second-century...

    £300

  16. POPE, [Alexander].

    The second Epistle of the second Book of...

    London, R. Dodsley, 1737.

    First edition, the issue (presumably early)...

    £275

  17. POPE, [Alexander].

    The sixth Epistle of the first Book of...

    London, L. Gilliver, 1737.

    First edition. Foxon P965; Rothschild 1638;...

    £250

  18. [POPE, Alexander.]

    The Dunciad. An heroic Poem. In three Books....

    ‘Dublin, Printed; London, Re-printed...

    Second edition, rare, and of considerable...

    £4500

  19. QUINTILIAN, Marcus Fabius, and Pierre GALLAND (ed.).

    M. Fabii Quintiliani … de oratoria institutione...

    Paris, Thomas Richard, 1554 [– 1550-1561].

    A mixed edition of Pierre Galland’s Quintilian,...

    £700

  20. QUINTILIAN, Marcus Fabius, and Jacques-Louis d’ESTREBAY (editor).

    Compendium libri secundi, tertii, et quinti...

    Paris, Thomas Richard, 1558.

    Very rare third edition of this compendium...

    £350