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. NONIUS MARCELLUS.

    De proprietate sermonum. Iam demum innumeris...

    Antwerp, Christophe Plantin, 1565.

    First critical edition of this grammar...

    £450

  2. [ORDE, John Powlett.]

    A collection of 111 original compositions...

    Eton, 1818–1820.

    A delightful insight into classical education...

    £1750

  3. ORIBASIUS. 

    Commentaria in Aphorismos Hippocratis …...

    Paris, Simon de Colines, 1533. 

    First edition of this commentary on Hippocrates,...

    £1750

  4. [ORPHIC POEMS.] ESCHENBACH, Andreas Christian, editor.

    Ορφεως αργοναυτικα υμνοι...

    Utrecht, Willem van de Water, 1689.

    First Eschenbach edition, presenting the...

    £325

  5. OVID.

    P. Ovidii Nasonis operum …

    Leiden, [Bonaventure & Abraham] Elzevir, 1629.

    First Elzevir edition, newly edited by...

    £500

  6. OVID; Georg SABINUS, editor.

    Metamorphoses seu fabulae poeticae earumque...

    Frankfurt, Nikolaus Hoffmann, 1608.

    A pocket edition of Ovid’s Metamorphoses...

    £325

  7. [OXFORD UNIVERSITY.]

    Pietas Universitatis Oxoniensis in obitum...

    Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1761.

    First edition, one of fifty copies on large...

    £10000

  8. PACE, Giulio.

    Artis Lullianae emendatae libri IV. Quibus...

    Naples, Secondino Roncagliolo, 1631.

     Rare third edition (first 1618) of this...

    £750

  9. PACIFICUS, Sacerdos.

    Two letters signed regarding religious...

    [?Hong Kong, 1846.]

    Two interesting letters referring to paintings...

    £1100

  10. PAPINI, Roberto.

    Le Arti d’Oggi: Architettura e Arti Decorative...

    Milan and Rome, Bestetti and Tumminelli, 1930.

    First edition of a thorough and extensively...

    £300

  11. PATRIZI, Francesco.

    Egloga de Christi nativitate …

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

    Extremely rare first edition of Patrizi’s...

    £4500

  12. PAULUS de Sancta Maria.

    Scrutinium scripturarum.

    [(Colophon:) Mainz, Peter Schoeffer, 7 January...

    Fifth edition (first Strasbourg, not after...

    £12500

  13. PEROTTO, Niccolò, and Benedetto BRUGNOLO, editor.

    Cornucopi[a]e nuper emendatum a domino...

    [Milan], Giovanni Giacomo and brothers...

    Scarce Milanese edition of Perotto’s...

    £1750

  14. PERSIUS; [Thomas BREWSTER, translator].

    The Satires of Persius translated into...

    London, Printed for A. Millar, 1751.

    Second edition, with the addition of Bayle’s...

    £375

  15. PERUCCI, Francesco.

    Pompe funebri di tutte le nationi del mondo,...

    Verona, Francesco Rossi, 1639.

    First edition of Perucci’s account of...

    £975

  16. PETRINI, Giovanni.

    Sixteen copper engravings depicting scenes...

    [Rome, late eighteenth century.]

    An attractive volume containing sixteen...

    £1750

  17. PETRONIUS.

    Satyricon, eiusdemque fragmenta, illustrata...

    Leiden, Justus Livius, 1645.

    Third edition of the Satyricon as...

    £950

  18. PETRONIUS ARBITER, Titus.

    Satyricon; et diversorum poëtarum lusus...

    Utrecht, Gijsbert van Zijll and Dirck...

    A volume of Silver Age satire and lewd...

    £350

  19. PFEFFER DE WYDENBERG, Johannes.

    [Directorium sacerdotale.]

    [Basel, Johann Besicken, after 20 December...

    First and only incunable edition, very...

    £6500

  20. PIERTZ, Leonhard, Praesidens; Johann Ernst SCHLERETH, Respondens.

    De sacramentis in specie, Eucharistia et...

    Würzburg, Johann Michael Kleyer, 1703.

    A good copy of this rare Würzburg dissertation...

    £175