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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[MOREAN WAR.]
Journal of the Venetian Campaigne, A.D. 1687. under...
London, H.C. for R. Taylor, 1688.
First edition of an important account of...
£2500
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MUSGRAVE, Samuel.
Two Dissertations. I. On the Graecian...
London, printed by J. Nichols, 1782.
First edition of this work by the classical...
£450
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NOMEXY, Nicolas de.
Parnassus poeticus … nunc primum in Germania...
Rome, Guglielmo Facciotti, for Vincenzo...
A bestselling compilation of Latin verse,...
£650
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NONIUS MARCELLUS.
De proprietate sermonum. Iam demum innumeris...
Antwerp, Christophe Plantin, 1565.
First critical edition of this grammar...
£450
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[ORDE, John Powlett.]
A collection of 111 original compositions...
Eton, 1818–1820.
A delightful insight into classical education...
£1750
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ORIBASIUS.
Commentaria in Aphorismos Hippocratis …...
Paris, Simon de Colines, 1533.
First edition of this commentary on Hippocrates,...
£1750
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[ORPHIC POEMS.] ESCHENBACH, Andreas Christian, editor.
Ορφεως αργοναυτικα υμνοι...
Utrecht, Willem van de Water, 1689.
First Eschenbach edition, presenting the...
£325
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OVID.
P. Ovidii Nasonis operum …
Leiden, [Bonaventure & Abraham] Elzevir, 1629.
First Elzevir edition, newly edited by...
£500
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OVID; Georg SABINUS, editor.
Metamorphoses seu fabulae poeticae earumque...
Frankfurt, Nikolaus Hoffmann, 1608.
A pocket edition of Ovid’s Metamorphoses...
£325
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PAUSANIAS; Romolo AMASEO, translator; Wilhelm XYLANDER, Fridrich SYLBURG, and Joachim KÜHN, commentators.
Της Ελλαδος περιηγησις....
Leipzig, [Christian Götze for] Thomas...
First edition with the notes of Joachim...
£450
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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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PERSIUS; [Thomas BREWSTER, translator].
The Satires of Persius translated into...
London, Printed for A. Millar, 1751.
Second edition, with the addition of Bayle’s...
£375
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PERUCCI, Francesco.
Pompe funebri di tutte le nationi del mondo,...
Verona, Francesco Rossi, 1639.
First edition of Perucci’s account of...
£975
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PETRONIUS.
Satyricon, eiusdemque fragmenta, illustrata...
Leiden, Justus Livius, 1645.
Third edition of the Satyricon as...
£950
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PETRONIUS ARBITER, Titus.
Satyricon; et diversorum poëtarum lusus...
Utrecht, Gijsbert van Zijll and Dirck...
A volume of Silver Age satire and lewd...
£350
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PIGHIUS, Stephanus Vinandus.
Themis dea, seu de lege divina … Mythologia...
Antwerp, Christopher Plantin, 1568.
First edition of Pighius’s two treatises...
£450
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PINDAR.
Carmina, ex editione Chr. Gottl. Heyne.
Oxford, N. Bliss for M. Bliss and R. Bliss...
An attractive Oxford-printed pocket edition...
£175
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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
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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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PLINY the Younger.
Caii Plinii Caecilii Secundi Opera quae...
Glasgow, Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1751.
A handsome quarto Pliny from the Foulis...
£600