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. ALAMANNI, Luigi.

    Opere toscane.

    [(Colophon:) Florence, [Bernardo Giunta],...

    First Florentine edition of this collection...

    £650

  2. ALBERTI, Leon Battista.

    El Momo. La moral e muy graciosa historia...

    Alcalá de Henares, Joan Mey Flandro, 1553.

    First edition in Spanish of Alberti’s...

    £3800

  3. APPIAN of Alexandria.

    Civili. Appiano Alessandrino delle guerre...

    Venice, [Pietro Nicolini da Sabbio for...

    A much-annotated copy of these late Aldine...

    £3000

  4. ARNIGIO, Bartolomeo. 

    Rime dell’Arnigio per la ill[ustre] signora...

    Brescia, Giovanni Battista Bozzola, 1566. 

    First edition of Bartolomeo Arnigio’s...

    £1750

  5. BARTOLI, Adolfo.

    Scenari inediti della Commedia dell’arte....

    Florence, Sansoni, 1880.

    Rare first edition, one of only 350 copies,...

    £500

  6. BLANCHON, Jacques.

    Iacobi Blanchoni Ucessiensis adversus Ludovicum...

    Lyons, Jean de Tournes, 1550.

    First edition of a very rare work of sixteenth-century...

    £950

  7. [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

  8. CAVALCANTI, Bartolomeo. 

    La retorica … divisa in sette libri,...

    Venice, Gabriel Giolitto, 1559. 

    Second edition, published in the same year...

    £2250

  9. [CHAMPIER, Symphorien.]

    La vie & les gestes du preux chevalier...

    Lyons, Olivier Arnoullet, [(colophon:)...

    A rare edition of Champier’s account...

    £9500

  10. DELL’UVA, Benedetto.

    Le vergini prudenti.

    Florence, Bartolomeo Sermartelli, 1582.

    First editions of three religious poems...

    £650

  11. GAGUIN, Robert.

    La mer des croniques et mirouer hystorial...

    Paris, [Bernard Aubry for] Jacques Nyverd,...

    Very rare Paris vernacular edition (first...

    £8500

  12. IRENICUS, Franciscus.

    Germaniae exegeseos volumina duodecima...

    [(Colophon:) Hagenau, Thomas Anshelm for...

    First editions of a pair of sixteenth-century...

    £3500

  13. LA VIGNE, André de.

    Le vergier dhonneur nouvellement imprime...

    [(Colophon:) Paris, Philippe le Noir],...

    George Dunn’s copy of a rare early edition...

    £9500

  14. [LA VIGNE, André de, and Octavien de SAINT-GELAIS.]

    Le vergier dhonneur nouvellement imprime...

    [Paris, Pierre le Dru and Jean Petit, 1503.]

    Extremely rare first edition of the Vergier...

    £120000

  15. LELAND, John.

    The Itinerary of John Leland, in or about...

    London, Centaur Press Ltd, 1964.

    The authoritative edition of Leland’s...

    £50

  16. LUIGINI, Francesco.

    In librum Q. Horatii Flacci de arte poetica...

    Venice, [(colophon:) sons of] Aldus, 1554.

    First and only edition of Luigini’s commentary...

    £850

  17. MIRANDULA (or MIRANDOLA), Ottaviano. 

    Illustrium poetarum flores. 

    Antwerp, Joannes Bellerus, 1563. 

    A remarkable copy, with numerous and eloquent...

    £1950

  18. MORI, Ascanio de’.

    Giuoco piacevole.

    Mantua, Giacomo Ruffinello, 1575.

    First edition of an uncommon Renaissance...

    £950

  19. PATRIZI, Francesco.

    Egloga de Christi nativitate …

    [Padua, Printer of Lucianus (H 10276),...

    Extremely rare first edition of Patrizi’s...

    £4500

  20. PETRONIUS.

    Satyricon, eiusdemque fragmenta, illustrata...

    Leiden, Justus Livius, 1645.

    Third edition of the Satyricon as...

    £950