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. APPIAN of Alexandria.

    Civili. Appiano Alessandrino delle guerre...

    Venice, [Pietro Nicolini da Sabbio for...

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

    £3000

  2. [AQUHORTIES.]

    Abstract of the Rules and Regulations for...

    Edinburgh, Printed by J. Moir, Paterson’s...

    Broadside rules for the newly established...

    £850

  3. [ARCHCONFRATERNITY OF THE MOST HOLY CRUCIFIX.]

    Distinta descrizione della machina, luminari,...

    Rome, per il Casaletti, 1775.

    Rare record of a procession made by members...

    £250

  4. [ARCHCONFRATERNITY OF SAN GIOVANNI DECOLLATO.]

    ...

    Rome, second half of eighteenth century.

    An unusual woodcut – likely intended...

    £500

  5. ARCHIMEDES.

    Τα μεχρι νυν σωζομενα,...

    Basel, Johannes Herwagen, [(colophon):...

    Editio princeps of the works of...

    £45000

  6. ARCHIMEDES, BOETHIUS, and CAMPANO da Novara; Luca GAURICO, editor.

    Tetragonismus id est circuli quadratura...

    Venice, [Giacomo Penzio for] Giovanni...

    The first appearance in print of any complete...

    £18000

  7. ARIAS, Francisco.

    Paleys der deughden begrypende de naervolghinghe...

    Antwerp, Gheleyn Janssens, 1609.

    First Dutch edition of this work of Marian...

    £375

  8. ARISTAENETUS.

    Επιστολαι … Epistolae graecae....

    Paris, Marc Orry, 1610.

    A volume of fictional Greek love stories,...

    £1250

  9. ARISTIDES, Aelius.

    Orationum tomi tres, nunc primum latine...

    Basel, Peter Perna and Heinrich Petrus, 1566.

    First edition in Latin, a remarkable copy...

    £2750

  10. ARISTOPHANES.

    The Frogs, a Comedy. Translated from the...

    Oxford, J. and J. Fletcher; London,...

    First edition in English, and the only...

    £500

  11. ARISTOPHANES, and Henry Francis CARY, translator.

    The Birds … with Notes.

    London, Printed for Taylor and Hessey …...

    First edition of the first metrical translation...

    £350

  12. ARISTOTLE; THEOPHRASTUS; Theodorus GAZA and Pietro ALCIONIO, translators.

    Historiae. Cum de natura Animalium, tum...

    Lyons, [Nicolas Bacquenois for] Guillaume...

    A union of Aristotle on animals and Theophrastus...

    £800

  13. ARNIGIO, Bartolomeo. 

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

    Brescia, Giovanni Battista Bozzola, 1566. 

    First edition of Bartolomeo Arnigio’s...

    £1750

  14. AUGUSTINE, Pseudo-, et al. 

    Opusculum multarum bonaru[m] rerum refertum,...

    Venice, Pietro Quarengi, 6 March 1512. 

    Uncommon edition of various devotional...

    £750

  15. AUGUSTINUS TRIUMPHUS [i.e. AUGUSTINUS de Ancona].  

    Summa de potestate ecclesiastica.

    Augsburg, [Johann Schüssler,] 6 March 1473.

    First edition of this highly important...

    £22500

  16. BACON, Francis.

    Historia vitae et mortis.

    Amsterdam, Johannes van Ravesteyn, 1663.

    Pocket-sized Amsterdam editions of three...

    £975

  17. BACON, Francis.

    Opuscula varia posthuma, philosophica,...

    London, R. Daniel, impensis Octaviani...

    First edition, second issue of this collection...

    £1250

  18. BALBUS, Johannes.

    Catholicon.

    [Strasbourg, The R-Printer (Adolf Rusch),...

    Third edition of the earliest printed lexicon,...

    £65000

  19. [BARNABITES.]

    Vesperae quae cantantur solemniter a clericis...

    [Rome, 1693 and later.]

    A finely executed manuscript comprising...

    £2750

  20. BARTHOLOMEW OF PISA.

    Sermo[n]es lucidissimi et insignes dubiorum...

    Lyon, Romain Morin, 3 February 1519.

    Rare edition of forty-five sermons for...

    £2250