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.
-
LACTANTIUS.
Opera.
[Venice,] Vindelinus de Spira, 1472.
Magnificent incunable edition of the works...
£25000
-
[LAFONT, Joseph de.]
Hypermnestre, tragedie, mise au theatre...
Lyon, de l’imprimerie d’Aymé Delaroche...
Very scarce Lyon edition of the libretto...
£175
-
[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
-
LIVY.
Libri omnes, quotquot ad nostrum aetatem...
Frankfurt, [Georg Rab for] Johann and...
An elegantly illustrated and scholarly...
£1750
-
LIVY, Titus.
T. Livii Patauini […] ex XIIII Decadibus...
Paris, [Michel Vascosan for] Oudin Petit,...
A much-praised edition of Livy’s History,...
£3800
-
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
-
LUCAN.
Pharsalia cum annotationibus in margine...
Antwerp, Michael Hillenius, 1528.
An uncommon edition of Lucan’s poem on...
£2500
-
LUCIAN of Samosata.
Opera graece et latine ad editionem Tiberii...
Zweibrücken, Typographia Societatis,...
Renouard’s copy of the Bipontine Lucian,...
£8000
-
LUCIAN of Samosata; Étienne MOQUOT, editor.
Luciani Samosatensis dialogi selecti. Cum...
Lyons, Claude Obert, 1636.
Uncommon parallel Greek and Latin edition...
£375
-
LUCRETIUS.
Titi Lucretii Cari de rerum natura libri...
Padua, Giuseppe Comino [for Volpi], 2...
First Volpi–Comino edition of Lucretius’s...
£450
-
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
-
MACROBIUS, Ambrosius Theodosius.
Somnium Scipionis ex Ciceronis libro De...
Venice, Filippo Pinzi, 29 October 1500.
Sixth and last incunable edition of Macrobius,...
£9500
-
MARLIANI, Bartolomeo.
Urbis Romae topographia.
Rome, Valerio & Luigi Dorico, September 1544.
First illustrated edition (third overall),...
£5500
-
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
-
MARTIAL.
Epigrammaton libri XIII. Ex fide vetustissimorum...
Paris, Jean Libert, 1612 [(colophon:) 1613].
An uncommon small-format edition of Martial’s...
£650
-
MAXIMUS OF TYRE.
Μαξιμου Τυριου φιλοσοφου...
[Geneva,] Henri II Estienne, 1557.
Editio princeps of the forty-one...
£1500
-
MAXIMUS the Confessor; Jean PICOT, translator.
Sanctissimi patris magistrique, Maximi,...
[(Colophon:) Paris,] Guillaume Morel, [1560].
First edition of Jean Picot’s Latin translation...
£850
-
MERCURIALE, Girolamo.
De arte gymnastica libri sex, in quibus...
Venice, [Lucantonio II] Giunta, 1587.
Third edition of ‘the first illustrated...
£2750
-
MILBANK, Augustus Sussex.
A Treatise upon the political & social...
[Richmond, M. Bell for] London, Messrs...
First and only edition of a rare Yorkshire-printed...
£125
-
MIRANDULA (or MIRANDOLA), Ottaviano.
Illustrium poetarum flores.
Antwerp, Joannes Bellerus, 1563.
A remarkable copy, with numerous and eloquent...
£1950