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. SILIUS ITALICUS, C.; John CAREY, editor.

    Punicorum libri XVII, sedulâ recensione...

    London, T. Davison for Rodwell & Martin,...

    First and only ‘Regent’s Classics’...

    £100

  2. SOPHOCLES.

    ‘Αι του Σοφοκλεους τραγωδιαι...

    Eton, Joseph Pote; and sold by C. Bathurst...

    An attractive Eton-printed edition of Thomas...

    £400

  3. [SOPHOCLES.]

    Tragoediae superstites et deperditarum...

    Oxford, University Press, 1832.

    First Oxford edition of the Sophocles of...

    £200

  4. SOPHOCLES. 

    Tragoediae Sophoclis quotquot extant carmine...

    Antwerp, Jean Bellère, 1584.

    An early seventeenth-century sammelband...

    £950

  5. [SPENCE, Joseph.] Nicholas TINDAL.

    A Guide to classical Learning: or, Polymetis...

    London, J. Dodsley, 1777.

    Second illustrated edition (fourth overall)...

    £250

  6. STANCOVICH, Pietro.

    Dello anfiteatro di Pola, dei gradi marmorei...

    Venice, Giuseppe Picotti, 1822.

    First edition, uncut in the original wrappers,...

    £275

  7. STATIUS, P. Papinius; John CAREY, editor.

    Opera, sedula recensione accurata [cover: Recensuit...

    London, T. Davison for Rodwell & Martin,...

    An attractive copy, uncut in the publisher’s...

    £120

  8. STEPHANUS of Byzantium; HANNO; Abraham Van BERKEL, editor and translator.

    Genuina Stephani Byzantini de urbibus et...

    Leiden, Daniel van Gaasbeeck, 1674.

    First edition thus, a volume of short and...

    £450

  9. SUETONIUS Tranquillus, Gaius, and HERODIAN OF ANTIOCH.

    Vita di duodeci imperatori… nuovamente...

    Venice, Venturino di Rossinelli [for Curzio...

    Annotated copy of a scarce edition of this...

    £1250

  10. TACITUS. 

    C. Cornelius Tacitus, cum optimis exemplaribus...

    Amsterdam, Daniel Elzevir, 1678. 

    A remarkably fresh set of the third and...

    £275

  11. TACITUS, Cornelius.

    Les oeuvres … a sçavoir, les Annales...

    Paris, Jean Houzé, 1599.

    Rare anonymous French translation of the...

    £750

  12. [TACOLI, Carlotta Munarini, Marchioness.]

    ‘Memorie riguardanti la storia filosofica...

    Modena, 1805.

    An unpublished manuscript introduction...

    £1250

  13. TERENCE.

    Les comedies … avec la traduction et...

    Rotterdam, Gaspar Fritsch, 1717.

    A fine edition of Anne Dacier’s French...

    £850

  14. TERENCE.

    Comediae sex. A M. Anto. Mureto locis...

    Carmagnola, Marcantonio Bellone, 1590.

    A rare provincial printing of a school...

    £375

  15. TERENCE Afer, Publius. 

    Comoediae sex, tum ex Donati commentariis...

    Paris, Robert Estienne, 1529. 

    First folio edition of Terence’s comedies...

    £1500

  16. TERENCE; Daniel HEINSIUS, editor.

    Pub. Terentii comoediae sex, ex recensione...

    Amsterdam, Henrik Wetstein, [c. 1700].

    A small-format edition of Terence’s comedies,...

    £145

  17. TERENTIUS Afer, Publius.

    Comoediae sex. Ex recensione Heinsiana,...

    Amsterdam, Jan Jansson, 1658.

    An intensely annotated copy of this rare...

    £2250

  18. THEOCRITUS et al.

    Theocriti aliorumque poetarum Idyllia....

    [Geneva], Henri Estienne, 1579.

    An outstanding volume uniting the Estienne...

    £9000

  19. THEODORET.

    Διαλογοι τρεις κατα τινων...

    Leipzig, [(colophon:) Ernst Vögelin], 1568.

    First edition of Strigel’s Latin translation...

    £1350

  20. THUCYDIDES; Lorenzo VALLA, translator; Henri ESTIENNE, editor.

    Περι του Πελοποννησιακου...

    [Geneva, Henri II Estienne for] Frankfurt,...

    A richly annotated and extra-illustrated...

    £2250