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.
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TYRE, William, Archbishop of, and Giuseppe OROLOGGI (translator).
Historia della guerra sacra di Gierusalemme,...
Venice, Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1562.
First Italian edition of William of Tyre’s...
£2800
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URCEO, Antonio [or Codro].
Hoc Codri volumine haec continentur. ...
Bologna, Giovanni Antonio Benedetti, 7...
First edition of a quintessential piece...
£3000
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URSINIS, Bartholomaeus de.
[Quadragesimale quod dicitur Gratia Dei.]
[Naples, Francesco del Tuppo for Bernardinus...
First and only edition, a handsome, wide-margined...
£27500
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VALERIUS FLACCUS, Gaius, and Louis CARRIO, translator.
Argonauticon … libri VIII, a Ludovico...
Antwerp, Christopher Plantin, [15 July] 1565.
First edition, a very attractive copy,...
£1250
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VALERIUS MAXIMUS, Gaius.
Valerii Maximi dictorum, & factorum memorabilium...
[(Colophon:) Sélestat, Lazarus Schürer,...
Very rare edition of Valerius Maximus printed...
£2250
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VALERIUS MAXIMUS, Gaius.
Dictorum factorumque memorabilium exempla....
Carmagnola, Marcantonio Bellone, 1607.
Rare edition of Valerius Maximus, provincially...
£450
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VALLISNERI, Alberto Maria.
Lettioni venti sopra gli alti, et ineffabili...
Milan, Giovanni Battista da Ponte & fratelli,...
Very rare first edition of a collection...
£500
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VELLEIUS PATERCULUS.
Quae supersunt ex historiae Romanae voluminibus...
Glasgow, Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1752.
First and only Foulis Press edition, unusually...
£425
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VIGER, François.
De praecipuis graecae dictionis idiotismis...
London, G. Godbid for William Shrowsberey,...
Second London edition of this treatise...
£175
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VIRGIL.
Publii Virgilii Maronis opera, variorum...
London, ‘typis E. Tyler et R. Holt...
Rare student edition of the works of Virgil,...
£650
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[VIRGIL.] RAMUS, Petrus (Pierre de la RAMÉE).
Georgica, P. Rami … praelectionibus...
Paris, André Wechel, 1564.
Second editions of Ramus’s extensive...
£950
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VORAGINE, Jacobus de.
Sermones quadragesimales [– de tempore...
[(Colophons:) Venice, Simon de Luere for...
An annotated copy of Jacobus de Voragine’s...
£3250
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VORAGINE, Jacobus de.
Lombardica historia que a plerisque aurea...
Strasbourg, [Georg Husner,] 1502.
Jacobus de Voragine’s influential Legenda...
£8000
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[WALLET.]
Wallet with manuscript and printed waste.
France, c. 1790.
An attractive late eighteenth-century wallet...
£950
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[WALLPAPER BINDING.]
‘Chassereau des Biens et Rentes deves...
Hainaut, 1750–1773.
A manuscript account book compiled by Joseph...
£3500
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WEBER, Johann Adam.
Discursus curiosi et fructuosi [ad praecipuas...
[Salzburg, Johann Baptist Mayr, 1690.]
Third Salzburg edition of Weber’s wide-ranging...
£6000
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WILSON, David (editor).
A Collection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes, &c....
[Edinburgh:] Sold by the Editor at his...
Second(?), expanded edition of this collection...
£500
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[WILSON,] Thomas, Bishop of Sodor and Man.
A short and plain Instruction for the better...
London, B. Dod, T. Longman & C. Hitch,...
Scarce first posthumous edition of this...
£250
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WITTKOWER, Jochanan.
Agudath Perachim. ‘Blüthenstrauß’....
Altona, the Bonn Brothers for the author, 1880.
First and only edition of this anthology...
£350
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WORDSWORTH, Christopher.
Greece: pictorial, descriptive, and historical...
London, William S. Orr and Co., 1840.
First edition, one of the rare copies in...
£2000