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. GAZA, Theodorus.

    Grammatica introductiva; De mensibus; Apollonius...

    [(Colophon:) Venice, Aldus Manutius, 25...

    A beautiful example of early Greek printing,...

    £45000

  2. ARCHIMEDES.

    Τα μεχρι νυν σωζομενα,...

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

    Editio princeps of the works of...

    £45000

  3. LACTANTIUS.

    Opera.

    [Venice,] Vindelinus de Spira, 1472.

    Magnificent incunable edition of the works...

    £25000

  4. PLATO; Jean DE SERRES, translator and commentator; Henri ESTIENNE, editor.

    Απαντα τα σωζομενα …...

    [Geneva], Henri Estienne, 1578.

    A magnificent large-paper copy of the first...

    £18000

  5. 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

  6. EUCLID.

    Στοιχειων βιβλ. ιε εκ...

    Basel, Johannes Herwagen, September 1533.

    Editio princeps of Euclid, the ‘oldest...

    £18000

  7. [ANTHOLOGIA GRAECA PLANUDEA.]

    [Edited by Janus Lascaris.]

    [Florence, Lorenzo di Francesco de Alopa,...

    Editio princeps, a beautiful printing...

    £16500

  8. CAESAR, Gaius Julius.

    C. Julii Caesaris quae extant. Accuratissime...

    London, Jacob Tonson, 1712.

    First edition of the celebrated Tonson’s...

    £9500

  9. MACROBIUS, Ambrosius Theodosius.

    Somnium Scipionis ex Ciceronis libro De...

    Venice, Filippo Pinzi, 29 October 1500.

    Sixth and last incunable edition of Macrobius,...

    £9500

  10. THEOCRITUS et al.

    Theocriti aliorumque poetarum Idyllia....

    [Geneva], Henri Estienne, 1579.

    An outstanding volume uniting the Estienne...

    £9000

  11. [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

  12. POLLUX, Julius.

    Ονομαστικον … Vocabularium.

    [(Colophon:) Venice, Aldus, April 1502.]

    Editio princeps of the oldest encyclopaedia...

    £8500

  13. POCOCKE, Richard. 

    A Description of the East, and some other...

    ...

    First edition, demy folio issue. A successful...

    £8000

  14. LUCIAN of Samosata.

    Opera graece et latine ad editionem Tiberii...

    Zweibrücken, Typographia Societatis,...

    Renouard’s copy of the Bipontine Lucian,...

    £8000

  15. MARLIANI, Bartolomeo.

    Urbis Romae topographia.

    Rome, Valerio & Luigi Dorico, September 1544.

    First illustrated edition (third overall),...

    £5500

  16. EUCLID; Jean MAGNIEN and Stephanus GRACILIS, editors.

    Euclidis elementorum libri XV Graece et...

    Paris, Guillaume Cavellat, 1557.

    First edition of Euclid’s Elements...

    £5500

  17. EUSTRATIUS of Nicaea, et al.; ARISTOTLE.

    Ευστρατιου και αλλων...

    [(Colophon:) Venice, heirs of Aldus Manutius...

    Editio princeps of the Greek commentaries...

    £5500

  18. FULBECKE, William.

    An Historicall Collection of the continuall...

    London, Printed for William Ponsonby. 1601.

    First edition of Fulbecke’s Historicall...

    £5250

  19. PLATO; [Marsilio FICINO].

    Platonis opera.

    [(Colophon:) Venice, Filippo Pinzi, 22...

    Third edition of Marsilio Ficino’s important...

    £5000

  20. [ANTHOLOGIA GRAECA PLANUDEA.]

    Ανθολογια διαφορων επιγραμματων...

    [Geneva], Henri Estienne, 1566.

    First Estienne edition of the Planudean...

    £5000