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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LACTANTIUS.
Opera.
[Venice,] Vindelinus de Spira, 1472.
Magnificent incunable edition of the works...
£25000
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[ANTHOLOGIA GRAECA PLANUDEA.]
[Edited by Janus Lascaris.]
[Florence, Lorenzo di Francesco de Alopa,...
Editio princeps, a beautiful printing...
£16500
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GAZA, Theodorus.
Grammatica introductiva; De mensibus; Apollonius...
[(Colophon:) Venice, Aldus Manutius, 25...
A beautiful example of early Greek printing,...
£45000
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MACROBIUS, Ambrosius Theodosius.
Somnium Scipionis ex Ciceronis libro De...
Venice, Filippo Pinzi, 29 October 1500.
Sixth and last incunable edition of Macrobius,...
£9500
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POLLUX, Julius.
Ονομαστικον … Vocabularium.
[(Colophon:) Venice, Aldus, April 1502.]
Editio princeps of the oldest encyclopaedia...
£8500
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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
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JUSTINUS, Marcus Junianus, Lucius Annaeus FLORUS, and Sextus RUFUS.
Iustini Historia ex Trogo Pompeio quattuor...
Paris, Jean Petit [and Jean Marchant], [1509].
A collection of abbreviated Roman histories,...
£1850
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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
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DOMINICUS DE FLANDRIA.
Dominici de Flandria ordinis predicator[um]...
Venice, Giorgio Arrivabene for the heirs...
Scarce early editions of two Aristotelian...
£3000
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PLATO; [Marsilio FICINO].
Platonis opera.
[(Colophon:) Venice, Filippo Pinzi, 22...
Third edition of Marsilio Ficino’s important...
£5000
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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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MARSILIUS of Inghen, GILES of Rome, and ALBERT of Saxony.
Marsilii de genera[tione et corruptione]....
[(Colophon:) Venice, [Boneto Locatello...
A trio of late thirteenth- and fourteenth-century...
£1500
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FLORUS, Lucius.
Lucii Flori rerum ab urbe condita liber...
[Venice, in aedibus Aldi et Andreae Soceri,...
Florus’s epitome of Roman history, extracted...
£750
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JUSTINUS, Marcus Junianus; Cornelius NEPOS.
Trogi Pompei externae historiae in compendium...
Venice, ‘in aedibus Aldi et Andreae...
First Aldine edition of Justinus’ abridgement...
£1850
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PLUTARCH.
La seconda & ultima parte delle vite di...
Venice, Nicolao di Aristotile detto Zoppino,...
An attractive illustrated edition of twenty-seven...
£2750
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[BIBLE – OLD TESTAMENT and APOCRYPHA, Greek; Johann LONITZER, editor.]
Της θειας γραφης παλαιας...
Strasbourg, Wolfgang Köpfel, 1526.
The first edition of the Old Testament...
£8500
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LUCAN.
Pharsalia cum annotationibus in margine...
Antwerp, Michael Hillenius, 1528.
An uncommon edition of Lucan’s poem on...
£2500
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TERENCE Afer, Publius.
Comoediae sex, tum ex Donati commentariis...
Paris, Robert Estienne, 1529.
First folio edition of Terence’s comedies...
£1500
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CLAUDIANUS, Claudius.
Claudii Claudiani Alexandrini, poetae illustriss. quotquot...
Paris, Simon de Colines, 1530.
First Colines edition of the major works...
£850
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QUINTILIAN, Marcus Fabius.
Institutiones oratoriae, ac Declamationes,...
[Paris,] Badius Ascensius for Ascensius...
Rare reprint of Badius’s successful 1528...
£1250