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. MYLIUS, Georg, and Michael HOPF.

    De visitatione ecclesiastica.

    Jena, Tobias Steinmann, 1593.

    First edition, rare, of an early work on...

    £200

  2. NATALI, Pietro de’; Antonio VERLO, editor.

    Catalogus sanctorum et gestorum eorum.

    Vicenza, Henricus de Sancto Ursio, Zenus,...

    First edition of a comprehensive encyclopaedia...

    £6250

  3. [NAUDÉ, Philippe, attr. author].

    Histoire abrégée de la naissance & du...

    Cologne, Pierre Marteau, 1692.

    First edition of the earliest work on the...

    £750

  4. NAVARRETE, Domingo Fernández. 

    Tratados historicos, politicos, ethicos,...

    Madrid, Juan Garcia Infançon for Florian...

    Scarce first edition, one of the most important...

    £3750

  5. NAVARRETE, Domingo Fernández.

    Tratados historicos, politicos, ethicos,...

    Madrid, Juan Garcia Infançon for Florian...

    Scarce first edition, one of the most important...

    £4750

  6. NELSON, John.

    An Extract of John Nelson’s Journal,...

    Bristol, E. Farley & Co., 1767.

    Rare first edition, printed in Bristol,...

    £600

  7. NEPOS, Cornelius; Andreas SCHOTT, editor.

    Opera quae quidem extant … Nunc denuo...

    Frankfurt, Claude de Marne & the heirs...

    First edition thus, edited by Andreas Schott...

    £850

  8. NIXON, Howard M. 

    Broxbourne Library: Styles and Designs...

    London, Maggs Brothers for the Broxbourne...

    First edition, one of three hundred copies,...

    £875

  9. NOMEXY, Nicolas de.

    Parnassus poeticus … nunc primum in Germania...

    Rome, Guglielmo Facciotti, for Vincenzo...

    A bestselling compilation of Latin verse,...

    £650

  10. [NOVARA.]

    Editti per le sagre ordinationi, con altre...

    Novara, Francesco Liborio Cavallo, [1704].

    Very rare set of edicts governing ordination...

    £400

  11. [NUNS.]

    Il paradiso in terra aperto alle sagre...

    Rome, Ottavio Puccinelli, 1747.

    Second edition (first 1718) of an anonymous...

    £1750

  12. ORIBASIUS. 

    Commentaria in Aphorismos Hippocratis …...

    Paris, Simon de Colines, 1533. 

    First edition of this commentary on Hippocrates,...

    £1750

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

    Ορφεως αργοναυτικα υμνοι...

    Utrecht, Willem van de Water, 1689.

    First Eschenbach edition, presenting the...

    £325

  14. [OUR LADY OF LORETO.]

    Abregé de l’histoire de Notre Dame de...

    Loreto, Federico Sartori, 1787.

    Rare edition of this guidebook for French...

    £1350

  15. OVID.

    P. Ovidii Nasonis operum …

    Leiden, [Bonaventure & Abraham] Elzevir, 1629.

    First Elzevir edition, newly edited by...

    £500

  16. OVID; Georg SABINUS, editor.

    Metamorphoses seu fabulae poeticae earumque...

    Frankfurt, Nikolaus Hoffmann, 1608.

    A pocket edition of Ovid’s Metamorphoses...

    £325

  17. [OXFORD UNIVERSITY.]

    Pietas Universitatis Oxoniensis in obitum...

    Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1761.

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

    £9500

  18. PACE, Giulio.

    Artis Lullianae emendatae libri IV. Quibus...

    Naples, Secondino Roncagliolo, 1631.

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

    £750

  19. PACIFICUS, Sacerdos.

    Two letters signed regarding religious...

    [?Hong Kong, 1846.]

    Two interesting letters referring to paintings...

    £1100

  20. PASSI, Carlo.

    La selva di varia istoria … la quale...

    Venice, Altobello Salicato, 1572.

    An unsophisticated copy of Passi and Ruscelli’s...

    £500