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. ISOCRATES.

    Orationes et epistolae gravitatis et suavitatis...

    Paris, Michel de Vascosan, 1553.

    A handsome Latin edition of twenty-one...

    £750

  2. IVANOV, Vyacheslav Ivanovich.

    Прометей трагедия [Prometei...

    St Petersburg, “Alkonost”, 1919.

    First edition of Ivanov’s dramatic poem...

    £250

  3. JUSTINUS, Marcus Junianus; Cornelius NEPOS.

    Trogi Pompei externae historiae in compendium...

    Venice, ‘in aedibus Aldi et Andreae...

    First Aldine edition of Justinus’ abridgement...

    £1850

  4. 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

  5. JUVENAL.

    The Satires … translated: with explanatory...

    London, for J. Nicholson, Cambridge;...

    Third edition of this parallel-text translation...

    £1250

  6. JUVENAL, Decimus Junius, and Aulus Persius FLACCUS.

    Satyrae.

    London, J. Brindley, 1744.

    First Brindley edition, edited by the Irish...

    £650

  7. LACTANTIUS.

    Opera.

    [Venice,] Vindelinus de Spira, 1472.

    Magnificent incunable edition of the works...

    £25000

  8. [LAFONT, Joseph de.]

    Hypermnestre, tragedie, mise au theatre...

    Lyon, de l’imprimerie d’Aymé Delaroche...

    Very scarce Lyon edition of the libretto...

    £175

  9. [LEXICON.] [ALENIUS, Arnoldus, i.e. Arnout van EYNDHOUTS.]

    Lexicon Graecolatinum post omnes hactenus...

    Venice, Alessandro Brucioli and brothers...

    First edition of the Lexicon edited by...

    £2000

  10. LIVY.

    Libri omnes, quotquot ad nostrum aetatem...

    Frankfurt, [Georg Rab for] Johann and...

    An elegantly illustrated and scholarly...

    £1750

  11. LIVY, Titus. 

    T. Livii Patauini […] ex XIIII Decadibus...

    Paris, [Michel Vascosan for] Oudin Petit,...

    A much-praised edition of Livy’s History,...

    £3800

  12. LONGINUS, [Pseudo-]; Jonathan TOUP and David RUHNKEN, editors.

    Quae supersunt Graece et Latine.

    Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1778.

    The first Toup edition of Longinus’ On...

    £375

  13. LUCAN.

    Pharsalia cum annotationibus in margine...

    Antwerp, Michael Hillenius, 1528.

    An uncommon edition of Lucan’s poem on...

    £2500

  14. LUCIAN of Samosata.

    Opera graece et latine ad editionem Tiberii...

    Zweibrücken, Typographia Societatis,...

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

    £8000

  15. LUCIAN of Samosata.

    Opera, quae quidem extant, omnia, e Graeco...

    Lyons, Jean Frellon, 1549.

    First Lyons edition of the works of Lucian...

    £3750

  16. LUCIAN of Samosata; Étienne MOQUOT, editor.

    Luciani Samosatensis dialogi selecti. Cum...

    Lyons, Claude Obert, 1636.

    Uncommon parallel Greek and Latin edition...

    £375

  17. LUCRETIUS. 

    Titi Lucretii Cari de rerum natura libri...

    Padua, Giuseppe Comino [for Volpi], 2...

    First Volpi–Comino edition of Lucretius’s...

    £450

  18. LUIGINI, Francesco.

    In librum Q. Horatii Flacci de arte poetica...

    Venice, [(colophon:) sons of] Aldus, 1554.

    First and only edition of Luigini’s commentary...

    £850

  19. MACROBIUS, Ambrosius Theodosius.

    Somnium Scipionis ex Ciceronis libro De...

    Venice, Filippo Pinzi, 29 October 1500.

    Sixth and last incunable edition of Macrobius,...

    £9500

  20. MARLIANI, Bartolomeo.

    Urbis Romae topographia.

    Rome, Valerio & Luigi Dorico, September 1544.

    First illustrated edition (third overall),...

    £5500