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. 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

  2. ARNIGIO, Bartolomeo. 

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

    Brescia, Giovanni Battista Bozzola, 1566. 

    First edition of Bartolomeo Arnigio’s...

    £1750

  3. BARTOLI, Adolfo.

    Scenari inediti della Commedia dell’arte....

    Florence, Sansoni, 1880.

    Rare first edition, one of only 350...

    £500

  4. BLANCHON, Jacques.

    Iacobi Blanchoni ucessiensis adversus Ludovicum...

    Lyon, Jean de Tournes, 1550.

    First edition of a very rare work of...

    £950

  5. [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

  6. CAVALCANTI, Bartolomeo. 

    La retorica … divisa in sette libri,...

    Venice, Gabriel Giolitto, 1559. 

    Second edition, published in the same...

    £2250

  7. EUCHERIUS, Johannes (pseud.).

    Gratiarum actio. Wirtembergensibus et Tubingensibus...

    Christopoli [i.e. Poznań, J. Wolrab], 1585.

    Very rare early imprint from Poznań, one...

    £800

  8. LELAND, John.

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

    London, Centaur Press Ltd, 1964.

    The authoritative edition of Leland’s...

    £75

  9. LELAND, John.

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

    London, Centaur Press Ltd, 1964.

    The authoritative edition of Leland’s...

    £50

  10. LUTHER, Martin. 

    Eyn Sendbriff … uber die frage.  Ob...

    [Wittenberg, N. Schirlentz, 1522].

    First edition, rare, of a momentous...

    £1500

  11. MORI, Ascanio de’.

    Giuoco piacevole.

    Mantua, Giacomo Ruffinello, 1575.

    First edition of a rare Renaissance...

    £1800

  12. PARABOSCO, Girolamo. 

    Libro primo [- quarto] delle lettere amorose...

    Venice, Domenico Farri, 1581.

    Uncommon collected edition of Girolamo...

    £900

  13. PIUS II (Nicolaus von WYLE, editor). 

    Epistolae familiares. 

    Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 17 July 1486. 

    Second Koberger edition of the Epistolae...

    £7500

  14. [QUARITCH.]

    Guillaume Postel (1510–1581).

    Quaritch, 2006.

    A catalogue of a collection of the works...

    £60

  15. [RICHEOME, Louis].

    La vérité defendue pour la religion catholique....

    Toulouse, Veuve de Jacques Colomiez, 1595.

    First edition of Richeome’s vindication...

    £1200

  16. RIDOLFI, Luca Antonio. 

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

    Lyons, Guillaume Rouillé, 1562. 

    Annotated copy, once owned by a music...

    £2800

  17. [ROZIER.] 

    Le rozier historial de France contenant...

    Paris, [Gilles Couteau for François Regnault],...


    First edition, the very handsome...

    £25000

  18. [SAVONAROLA]. POLITO, Ambrogio Caterino.

    Discorso … contra la dottrina, et le...

    Venice, Giolito, 1548.

    First edition, very rare (‘raro e...

    £1500

  19. SBRUGLIO, Riccardo. 

    Richardi Sbrulii equitis Foroiuliani Cesareiq[ue]...

    [Colophon:] Augsburg, Hans von Erfurt, 1519.

    First, very rare, edition, of Sbruglio’s...

    £1800

  20. SIMONETTA, Bonifacio.

    De Christiane Fidei et Romanorum Pontificum...

    (Colophon:) Basel, Nicolaus Kesler, 1509.

    A beautiful copy of the second edition...

    £4500