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. TERENCE.

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

    Carmagnola, Marcantonio Bellone, 1590.

    A rare provincial printing of a school...

    £375

  2. TERENCE Afer, Publius. 

    Comoediae sex, tum ex Donati commentariis...

    Paris, Robert Estienne, 1529. 

    First folio edition of Terence’s comedies...

    £1500

  3. TERENCE; Daniel HEINSIUS, editor.

    Pub. Terentii comoediae sex, ex recensione...

    Amsterdam, Henrik Wetstein, [c. 1700].

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

    £145

  4. TERENTIUS Afer, Publius.

    Comoediae sex. Ex recensione Heinsiana,...

    Amsterdam, Jan Jansson, 1658.

    An intensely annotated copy of this rare...

    £2250

  5. THEOCRITUS et al.

    Theocriti aliorumque poetarum Idyllia....

    [Geneva], Henri Estienne, 1579.

    An outstanding volume uniting the Estienne...

    £9000

  6. THEODORET.

    Διαλογοι τρεις κατα τινων...

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

    First edition of Strigel’s Latin translation...

    £1350

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

    Περι του Πελοποννησιακου...

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

    A richly annotated and extra-illustrated...

    £2250

  8. VALERIUS FLACCUS, Gaius, and Louis CARRIO, translator

    Argonauticon … libri VIII, a Ludovico...

    Antwerp, Christopher Plantin, [15 July] 1565. 

    First edition, a very attractive copy,...

    £1250

  9. VALERIUS MAXIMUS, Gaius.

    Valerii Maximi dictorum, & factorum memorabilium...

    [(Colophon:) Sélestat, Lazarus Schürer,...

    Very rare edition of Valerius Maximus printed...

    £2250

  10. VALERIUS MAXIMUS, Gaius.

    Dictorum factorumque memorabilium exempla....

    Carmagnola, Marcantonio Bellone, 1607.

    Rare edition of Valerius Maximus, provincially...

    £450

  11. VELLEIUS PATERCULUS.

    Quae supersunt ex historiae Romanae voluminibus...

    Glasgow, Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1752.

    First and only Foulis Press edition, unusually...

    £425

  12. VIGER, François.

    De praecipuis graecae dictionis idiotismis...

    London, G. Godbid for William Shrowsberey,...

    Second London edition of this treatise...

    £175

  13. VIRGIL.

    Publii Virgilii Maronis opera, variorum...

    London, ‘typis E. Tyler et R. Holt...

    Rare student edition of the works of Virgil,...

    £650

  14. [VIRGIL.]  RAMUS, Petrus (Pierre de la RAMÉE). 

    Georgica, P. Rami … praelectionibus...

    Paris, André Wechel, 1564. 

    Second editions of Ramus’s extensive...

    £950

  15. WORDSWORTH, Christopher.

    Greece: pictorial, descriptive, and historical...

    London, William S. Orr and Co., 1840.

    First edition, one of the rare copies in...

    £2000

  16. XENOPHON; Antonmaria SALVINI, translator.

    Di Senofonte Efesio degli amori di Abrocome...

    London (i.e. Florence?), ‘presso gli...

    Second edition of this erotic work on the...

    £650

  17. XENOPHON; [Philipp MELANCHTHON, editor].

    Ξενοφωντος απαντα. Xenophontis...

    Schwäbisch Hall, [Peter Braubach], 1540.

    The first complete edition of Xenophon’s...

    £4000

  18. ZAMPELIOS, Spiridion.

    Βυζαντιναι Μελεται [Byzantine...

    Athens, Christos Nikolaidos, 1857.

    First edition. Spyros Zampelios was a champion...

    £350

  19. ZANCHI, Basilio.

    Dictionarium poeticum, et epitheta veterum...

    Mons, Luca Rivius, 1612.

    Scarce Mons-printed edition of Zanchi’s...

    £375

  20. ZOSIMUS. 

    Ιστοριας νεας βιβλοι...

    Oxford, Sheldonian Theatre, 1679. 

    First Oxford edition of this history of...

    £400