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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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
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PLINY the Younger.
Caii Plinii Caecilii Secundi Opera quae...
Glasgow, Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1751.
A handsome Foulis Press pocket Pliny. The...
£850
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PLINY the Younger.
Panegyricus Trajano Augusto dictus.
Paris, [Charles Crapelet for] Antoine-Augustin...
An attractive edition of Pliny’s only...
£275
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PLUTARCH.
La seconda & ultima parte delle vite di...
Venice, Nicolao di Aristotile detto Zoppino,...
An attractive illustrated edition of twenty-seven...
£2750
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PLUTARCH.
Τα εθικα. Moralia, id est opera,...
Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1795–1800;...
Gaisford’s own copy of the Oxford Plutarch...
£2500
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POCOCKE, Richard.
A Description of the East, and some other...
...
First edition, demy folio issue. A successful...
£8000
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POLLUX, Julius.
Ονομαστικον εν βιβλιοις...
Amsterdam, Wetstein, 1706.
A crisp copy of Pollux’s second-century...
£300
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POLLUX, Julius.
Ονομαστικον … Vocabularium.
[(Colophon:) Venice, Aldus, April 1502.]
Editio princeps of the oldest encyclopaedia...
£8500
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POPE, [Alexander].
The second Epistle of the second Book of...
London, R. Dodsley, 1737.
First edition, the issue (presumably early)...
£275
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POPE, [Alexander].
The sixth Epistle of the first Book of...
London, L. Gilliver, 1737.
First edition. Foxon P965; Rothschild 1638;...
£250
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[POPE, Alexander.]
The Dunciad. An heroic Poem. In three Books....
‘Dublin, Printed; London, Re-printed...
Second edition, rare, and of considerable...
£4500
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QUINTILIAN, Marcus Fabius, and Pierre GALLAND (ed.).
M. Fabii Quintiliani … de oratoria institutione...
Paris, Thomas Richard, 1554 [– 1550-1561].
A mixed edition of Pierre Galland’s Quintilian,...
£700
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QUINTILIAN, Marcus Fabius, and Jacques-Louis d’ESTREBAY (editor).
Compendium libri secundi, tertii, et quinti...
Paris, Thomas Richard, 1558.
Very rare third edition of this compendium...
£350
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QUINTILIAN, Marcus Fabius.
Institutiones oratoriae, ac Declamationes,...
[Paris,] Badius Ascensius for Ascensius...
Rare reprint of Badius’s successful 1528...
£1250