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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QUINTILIAN, Marcus Fabius.
Institutiones oratoriae, ac Declamationes,...
[Paris,] Badius Ascensius for Ascensius...
Rare reprint of Badius’s successful 1528...
£1250
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RANK, Otto.
Der Mythus von der Geburt des Helden. Versuch...
Leipzig and Vienna, Franz Deuticke, 1909.
First edition of this psychoanalytical...
£100
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SALLUST.
C. Sallustius Crispus cum veterum Historicorum...
Leiden, ex officina Elzeviriana, 1634.
The first small format Elzevir printing...
£950
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SALLUST.
Caii Sallustii Crispi quae extant.
London, James Tonson and John Watts, 1713.
First Maittaire edition. The French-born...
£300
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SCHEFFER, Johannes Gerhard.
Constantini Opelii de fabrica triremium...
‘Eleuteropoli’ [Freistadt?], 1672.
First edition of this treatise on the ancient...
£875
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SENECA the Younger, and SENECA the Rhetorician.
L. Annaei Senecae philosophi opera omnia;...
Leiden, [Bonaventure & Abraham] Elzevir,...
First Elzevir edition of the moral works...
£500
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SILIUS ITALICUS, C.; John CAREY, editor.
Punicorum libri XVII, sedulâ recensione...
London, T. Davison for Rodwell & Martin,...
First and only ‘Regent’s Classics’...
£100
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SOPHOCLES.
‘Αι του Σοφοκλεους τραγωδιαι...
Eton, Joseph Pote; and sold by C. Bathurst...
An attractive Eton-printed edition of Thomas...
£400
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[SOPHOCLES.]
Tragoediae superstites et deperditarum...
Oxford, University Press, 1832.
First Oxford edition of the Sophocles of...
£200
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SOPHOCLES.
Tragoediae Sophoclis quotquot extant carmine...
Antwerp, Jean Bellère, 1584.
An early seventeenth-century sammelband...
£950
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[SPENCE, Joseph.] Nicholas TINDAL.
A Guide to classical Learning: or, Polymetis...
London, J. Dodsley, 1777.
Second illustrated edition (fourth overall)...
£250
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STANCOVICH, Pietro.
Dello anfiteatro di Pola, dei gradi marmorei...
Venice, Giuseppe Picotti, 1822.
First edition, uncut in the original wrappers,...
£275
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STATIUS, P. Papinius; John CAREY, editor.
Opera, sedula recensione accurata [cover: Recensuit...
London, T. Davison for Rodwell & Martin,...
An attractive copy, uncut in the publisher’s...
£120
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SUETONIUS Tranquillus, Gaius, and HERODIAN OF ANTIOCH.
Vita di duodeci imperatori… nuovamente...
Venice, Venturino di Rossinelli [for Curzio...
Annotated copy of a scarce edition of this...
£1250
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TACITUS.
C. Cornelius Tacitus, cum optimis exemplaribus...
Amsterdam, Daniel Elzevir, 1678.
A remarkably fresh set of the third and...
£275
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TACITUS, Cornelius.
Les oeuvres … a sçavoir, les Annales...
Paris, Jean Houzé, 1599.
Rare anonymous French translation of the...
£750
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[TACOLI, Carlotta Munarini, Marchioness.]
‘Memorie riguardanti la storia filosofica...
Modena, 1805.
An unpublished manuscript introduction...
£1250
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TERENCE.
Les comedies … avec la traduction et...
Rotterdam, Gaspar Fritsch, 1717.
A fine edition of Anne Dacier’s French...
£850
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TERENCE.
Comediae sex. A M. Anto. Mureto locis...
Carmagnola, Marcantonio Bellone, 1590.
A rare provincial printing of a school...
£375
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TERENCE Afer, Publius.
Comoediae sex, tum ex Donati commentariis...
Paris, Robert Estienne, 1529.
First folio edition of Terence’s comedies...
£1500