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. AESOP, et al. [George STEWART, editor].

    Selectiores Aesopi Phrygis fabulae, et...

    Edinburgh, Tho. Ruddiman for George Stewart,...

    First edition thus, scarce, a Scottish...

    £375

  2. ALABASTER, William.

    Roxana tragaedia olim Cantabrigiae, acta...

    London, R. Badger for Andrew Crook, 1632.

    The pirated first edition (the first...

    £1500

  3. APPIAN of Alexandria.

    Civili. Appiano Alessandrino delle guerre...

    Venice, [Pietro Nicolini da Sabbio for...

    A much-annotated copy of these late...

    £3000

  4. APULEIUS, Lucius. 

    L. Apuleii Metamorphoseos, sive lusus...

    Venice, ‘in aedibus Aldi et Andreae...

    First Aldine edition of the works of...

    £2000

  5. ARISTOPHANES.

    The Frogs, a Comedy. Translated from the...

    Oxford, J. and J. Fletcher; London,...

    First edition in English, and the only...

    £500

  6. ARISTOPHANES, and Henry Francis CARY, translator.

    The Birds … with Notes.

    London, Printed for Taylor and Hessey …...

    First edition of the first metrical...

    £350

  7. ARISTOTLE.

    Αριστοτελους περι ποιητικης:...

    Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1780.

    Large-paper issue of the first Winstanley...

    £675

  8. ARISTOTLE; Ermolao BARBARO, translator.

    De arte dicendi libri III.

    Paris, [Michel de] Vascosan, 1549.

    Rare first Vascosan edition of Aristotle’s...

    £650

  9. [CAESAR.]  RAMUS, Petrus (Pierre de la RAMÉE). 

    Liber de militia C. Julii Caesaris, cum...

    Frankfurt, heirs of Andreas Wechel, 1584. 

    An attractively bound copy of Ramus’s...

    £450

  10. CARTARI, Vincenzo. 

    Le imagini con la spositione de i dei de...

    Venice, per Francesco Marcolini, 1556. 

    First edition of Cartari’s influential...

    £800

  11. CATULLUS, TIBULLUS, PROPERTIUS, ‘GALLUS’.

    Opera … cum indice e diligenti vocum...

    Hanau, Wechel Press, Claude de Marne,...

    Wechel edition of the standard triad of...

    £450

  12. [CICERO, Marcus Tullius.]

    Commentarii Philippicarum Marci Ciceronis...

    Paris, Thomas Caseus for Jean Petit, [1514].

    Rare edition, attractively printed and...

    £950

  13. CICERO, Marcus Tullius.

    De Officiis … libri tres, ex editione...

    London, T. Payne, 1791.

    First Payne edition, edited by Henry...

    £450

  14. CICERO, Marcus Tullius.

    De Officiis … libri tres. Item, de amicitia:...

    London, [Felix Kingston for] the Stationers’...

    London edition of the ‘greatest hits’...

    £600

  15. [CICERO, Marcus Tullius.] 

    Tully’s three Books of Offices, in English. ...

    London, [W. Onley] for Sam. Buckley, 1699. 

    First edition of this translation by...

    £300

  16. CLAUDIANUS, Claudius.

    Claudii Claudiani Alexandrini, poetae illustriss. quotquot...

    Paris, Simon de Colines, 1530.

    First Colines edition of the major works...

    £850

  17. CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA (Titus Flavius CLEMENS). 

    Omnia opera. 

    Paris, Sebastien Nivelle, 1572. 

    A thoroughly annotated copy of this...

    £4750

  18. CONTI, Natale.

    Mythologiæ, sive explicationis fabularum,...

    Frankfurt, the heirs of André Wechel, 1584.

    Scarce Frankfurt edition of the Mythologiae...

    £950

  19. CURTIUS Rufus, Quintus. 

    De rebus Alexandri Magni, cum commentario...

    Utrecht, Franciscus Halma, 1685. 

    First Halma edition of Curtius’s history...

    £375

  20. CURTIUS RUFUS, Quintus.

    De rebus gestis Alexandri Magni regis Macedonum...

    Basel, Hieronymus Froben and Nicolaus...

    Handsome folio edition of Curtius Rufus’...

    £2000