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. PIUS II, Pope (Enea Silvio PICCOLOMINI); Nicolaus DE WYLE, editor.

    [Epistolae familiares; De duobus amantibus...

    [Reutlingen, Michael Greyff, not after 1478.]

    First combined edition of Pius II’s...

    £12500

  2. PATRIZI, Francesco.

    Egloga de Christi nativitate …

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

    Extremely rare first edition of Patrizi’s...

    £4500

  3. URCEO, Antonio [or Codro]. 

    Hoc Codri volumine haec continentur. ...

    Bologna, Giovanni Antonio Benedetti, 7...

    First edition of a quintessential piece...

    £3000

  4. [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

  5. SIMONETTA, Bonifacio.

    De Christiane Fidei et Romanorum Pontificum...

    [(Colophon:) Basel, Nicolaus Kesler, 1509.]

    A beautiful copy of the second edition...

    £4500

  6. PLATO; [Marsilio FICINO].

    Platonis opera.

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

    Third edition of Marsilio Ficino’s important...

    £5000

  7. IRENICUS, Franciscus.

    Germaniae exegeseos volumina duodecima...

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

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

    £3500

  8. LA VIGNE, André de.

    Le vergier dhonneur nouvellement imprime...

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

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

    £9500

  9. GAGUIN, Robert.

    La mer des croniques et mirouer hystorial...

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

    Very rare Paris vernacular edition (first...

    £8500

  10. ALAMANNI, Luigi.

    Opere toscane.

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

    First Florentine edition of this collection...

    £650

  11. APPIAN of Alexandria.

    Civili. Appiano Alessandrino delle guerre...

    Venice, [Pietro Nicolini da Sabbio for...

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

    £3000

  12. SIMEONI, Gabriele.

    Le III parti del campo de primi studii...

    [(Colophon:) Venice, Comin da Trino], 1546.

    First edition of this early work by Simeoni,...

    £950

  13. [SAVONAROLA, Girolamo.] Ambrogio Caterino POLITI.

    Discorso … contra la dottrina, et le...

    Venice, Giolito, 1548.

    First edition of a condemnation of Savonarola’s...

    £1500

  14. BLANCHON, Jacques.

    Iacobi Blanchoni Ucessiensis adversus Ludovicum...

    Lyons, Jean de Tournes, 1550.

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

    £950

  15. 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

  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. ZARLINO, Gioseffo.

    Le Istitutioni harmoniche … nelle quali;...

    Venice, [Pietro da Fino], 1558.

    First edition, rare, of ‘arguably the...

    £15000

  18. [CHAMPIER, Symphorien.]

    La vie & les gestes du preux chevalier...

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

    A rare edition of Champier’s account...

    £9500

  19. CAVALCANTI, Bartolomeo. 

    La retorica … divisa in sette libri,...

    Venice, Gabriel Giolitto, 1559. 

    Second edition, published in the same year...

    £2250

  20. RIDOLFI, Luca Antonio. 

    Aretefila, dialogo, nel quale da una parte...

    Lyons, Guillaume Rouillé, 1562. 

    The third edition (first 1557) of a remarkable...

    £2800