Continental

Contact Alex Day, Andrea Mazzocchi, Jonathan Harrison, Charlotte Miller or Sally Pettit

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. CHEKE, John, Sir, and Stephen [GARDINER], Bishop of Winchester.

    De pronuntiatione graecae potissimum linguae...

    Basel, Nikolaus Episcopius the younger, 1555.

    First edition of this collection of letters...

    £950

  2. CICERO, Marcus Tullius.

    Orationum pars I. Cum correctionibus P. Manutii,...

    Venice, ‘ex bibliotheca Aldina’, 1570.

    An unusual example of a white calf German...

    £1850

  3. CICERO, Marcus Tullius.

    M. T. Ciceronis orationes Philippicae...

    Paris, Jean Loys, 1544.

    Extremely rare edition of Cicero’s Philippics...

    £2250

  4. CICERO, Marcus Tullius.

    De philosophia tomus primus.

    Lyon, Sébastien Gryphe, 1546.

    A small format Lyon edition of Cicero,...

    £300

  5. CICERO, Marcus Tullius.

    Rheticorum ad Herennium libri IIII. Et...

    Venice, heirs of Giovanni Griffio, 1576.

    An attractive copy of the two earliest...

    £600

  6. CLAUDIANUS, Claudius.

    Claudii Claudiani Alexandrini, poetae illustriss. quotquot...

    Paris, Simon de Colines, 1530.

    First Colines edition of the major works...

    £850

  7. CLAUDIANUS, Claudius; Tommaso MEDINA, translator.

    Il ratto di Proserpina di Claudio Claudiano...

    Brescia, Bettoni, 1804.

    Very rare first edition of a translation...

    £650

  8. CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA (Titus Flavius CLEMENS); Gentian HERVET, translator.

    Omnia opera.

    Paris, Sebastien Nivelle, 1572.

    A thoroughly annotated copy of this early...

    £4750

  9. CONTI, Natale.

    Mythologiae, sive explicationis fabularum,...

    Frankfurt, the heirs of Andreas Wechel, 1584.

    Scarce Frankfurt edition of the Mythologiae...

    £950

  10. CURTIUS RUFUS, Quintus.

    De rebus gestis Alexandri Magni regis Macedonum...

    Basel, Hieronymus Froben and Nicolaus...

    Handsome folio edition of Curtius Rufus’...

    £2000

  11. DIO CASSIUS; Niccolò LEONICENO, translator.

    Dione historico delle guerre et fatti de...

    Venice, Niccolò Zoppino, March 1533.

    First edition of Dio Cassius’s Roman...

    £2500

  12. DIODORUS Siculus.

    Bibliothecae historicae libri XV. Hoc est,...

    Basel, Heinrich Petri, August 1559.

    Important edition, the first to be overseen...

    £2500

  13. DIOGENES LAERTIUS; Henri ESTIENNE, editor.

    Περι βιων, δογματων και...

    [Geneva], Henri Estienne, 1570.

    First Estienne edition of The Lives...

    £850

  14. DIONYSIUS of Halicarnassus.

    Antiquitatum Rom. libri XI. Ab Aemylio...

    Geneva, Jacob Stoer, 1614.

    A rare pocket-sized edition of Dionysius...

    £450

  15. DOMINICUS DE FLANDRIA.

    Dominici de Flandria ordinis predicator[um]...

    Venice, Giorgio Arrivabene for the heirs...

    Scarce early editions of two Aristotelian...

    £3000

  16. [DOVES PRESS.] 

    Pervigilium Veneris. 

    Hammersmith, ‘printed by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson...

    One of 150 copies on paper of the elusive...

    £950

  17. EPICTETUS.

    Το του Επικτητου εγχειριδιον....

    Glasgow, Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1751.

    The first miniature Foulis edition of Epictetus...

    £650

  18. EUCLID.

    Στοιχειων βιβλ. ιε εκ...

    Basel, Johannes Herwagen, September 1533.

    Editio princeps of Euclid, the ‘oldest...

    £18000

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

    Euclidis elementorum libri XV Graece et...

    Paris, Guillaume Cavellat, 1557.

    First edition of Euclid’s Elements...

    £5500

  20. EUNAPIUS; Hadrianus JUNIUS, translator; Hieronymus COMMELIN, editor.

    Βιοι φιλοσοφων και σοφιστων...

    ‘Cologny’ [Geneva], Samuel Crespin, 1616.

    An uncommon edition of the twenty-four...

    £450