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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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...
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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
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RANK, Otto.
Der Mythus von der Geburt des Helden. Versuch...
Leipzig and Vienna, Franz Deuticke, 1909.
First edition of this psychoanalytical...
£100
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[‘ROBERTI, Antonius’, pseud.]; George PERKINS, editor.
Clavis Homerica, reserans significationes,...
London, E. Griffin for Godfrey Emerson, 1638.
First London edition, ‘with the Catholic...
£600
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SALLUST.
C. Sallustius Crispus cum veterum Historicorum...
Leiden, ex officina Elzeviriana, 1634.
The first small format Elzevir printing...
£950
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SALLUST.
Caii Sallustii Crispi quae extant.
London, James Tonson and John Watts, 1713.
First Maittaire edition. The French-born...
£300
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SCHEFFER, Johannes Gerhard.
Constantini Opelii de fabrica triremium...
‘Eleuteropoli’ [Freistadt?], 1672.
First edition of this treatise on the ancient...
£875
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SENECA the Younger, and SENECA the Rhetorician.
L. Annaei Senecae philosophi opera omnia;...
Leiden, [Bonaventure & Abraham] Elzevir,...
First Elzevir edition of the moral works...
£500
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[SIBYLLINE ORACLES.]
Σιβυλλιακοι χρησμοι hoc...
Paris, [Compagnie du grande navire], 1607.
Second edition of a comprehensive scholarly...
£975