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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. APOLLODORUS; Benedetto EGIO, translator.

    Απολλοδωρου του Αθηναιου...

    [Heidelberg,] ex officina Commeliniana, 1599.

    Second edition (first 1555) of this...

    £875

  3. APPIAN of Alexandria.

    Civili. Appiano Alessandrino delle guerre...

    Venice, [Pietro Nicolini da Sabbio for...

    A much-annotated copy of these late...

    £3000

  4. ARISTAENETUS.

    Επιστολαι … Epistolae graecae....

    Paris, Marc Orry, 1610.

    A volume of fictional Greek amatory...

    £1250

  5. ARISTIDES, Aelius.

    Orationum tomi tres, nunc primum latine...

    Basel, Peter Perna and Heinrich Petrus, 1566.

    First edition in Latin, a remarkable...

    £2750

  6. ARISTOPHANES.

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

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

    First edition in English, and the only...

    £500

  7. ARISTOPHANES, and Henry Francis CARY, translator.

    The Birds … with Notes.

    London, Printed for Taylor and Hessey …...

    First edition of the first metrical...

    £350

  8. ARISTOTLE.

    Αριστοτελους περι ποιητικης:...

    Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1780.

    Large-paper issue of the first Winstanley...

    £675

  9. ARISTOTLE; THEOPHRASTUS; Theodorus GAZA and Pietro ALCIONIO, translators.

    Historiae. Cum de natura Animalium, tum...

    Lyons, [Nicolas Bacquenois for] Guillaume...

    A union of Aristotle on animals and...

    £800

  10. BACON, Francis.

    Historia vitae et mortis.

    Amsterdam, Johannes van Ravesteyn, 1663.

    Pocket-sized Amsterdam editions of three...

    £975

  11. BOETHIUS, Severinus; Richard GRAHAM, Viscount Preston, translator.

    Of the Consolation of Philosophy. In five...

    London, J. D. for Awnsham and John Churchill,...

    First edition of this translation by...

    £950

  12. BOLZANIO, Urbano or URBANUS BELLUNENSIS.

    Institutionum in linguam Graecam grammaticarum,...

    Basel, Johann Walder, September 1535.

    Basel edition of this popular grammar...

    £2000

  13. CAESAR, Gaius Julius.

    C. Julii Caesaris quae extant. Accuratissime...

    London, Jacob Tonson, 1712.

    First edition of the celebrated Tonson’s...

    £9500

  14. [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

  15. CARTARI, Vincenzo.

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

    Venice, Francesco Marcolini, 1556.

    First edition of Cartari’s influential...

    £800

  16. [CICERO, Marcus Tullius.]

    Commentarii Philippicarum Marci Ciceronis...

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

    Rare edition, attractively printed and...

    £950

  17. CICERO, Marcus Tullius.

    De Officiis … libri tres, ex editione...

    London, T. Payne, 1791.

    First Payne edition, edited by Henry...

    £450

  18. CICERO, Marcus Tullius.

    Marcus Tullius Ciceroes three Bookes of...

    [London, Richard Tottel,] 1583.

    Sixth edition of Grimald’s Cicero,...

    £3200

  19. CICERO, Marcus Tullius.

    Orationum pars I. Cum correctionibus P. Manutii,...

    Venice, ‘ex bibliotheca Aldina’, 1570.

    An unusual example of a white calf German...

    £1850

  20. CICERO, Marcus Tullius.

    M. T. Ciceronis orationes Philippicae...

    Paris, Jean Loys, 1544.

    Extremely rare edition of Cicero’s...

    £2250