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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CIGAULD, Vincent.
Allegationes Vincentii … iudicis ordinarii...
(Colophon:) Paris, Jean Frellon, 23 December...
Extremely rare first edition of this legal...
£2500
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APPIAN of Alexandria.
Civili. Appiano Alessandrino delle guerre...
Venice, [Pietro Nicolini da Sabbio for...
A much-annotated copy of these late Aldine...
£3000
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THUCYDIDES; Lorenzo VALLA, translator; Henri ESTIENNE, editor.
Περι του Πελοποννησιακου...
[Geneva, Henri II Estienne for] Frankfurt,...
A richly annotated and extra-illustrated...
£2250
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SIMONETTA, Bonifacio.
De Christiane Fidei et Romanorum Pontificum...
[(Colophon:) Basel, Nicolaus Kesler, 1509.]
A beautiful copy of the second edition...
£4500
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ERASMUS, Desiderius.
Desid. Erasmi Roterodami Colloquia nunc...
Amsterdam, Jodocus Janssonius, 1644.
Later edition of Erasmus’ highly influential...
£125
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[SAVONAROLA, Girolamo.] Ambrogio Caterino POLITI.
Discorso … contra la dottrina, et le...
Venice, Giolito, 1548.
First edition of a condemnation of Savonarola’s...
£1500
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ALBERTI, Leon Battista.
El Momo. La moral e muy graciosa historia...
Alcalá de Henares, Joan Mey Flandro, 1553.
First edition in Spanish of Alberti’s...
£3800
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PIUS II, Pope (Enea Silvio PICCOLOMINI); Nicolaus DE WYLE, editor.
[Epistolae familiares; De duobus amantibus...
[Reutlingen, Michael Greyff, not after 1478.]
First combined edition of Pius II’s...
£12500
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FERNÁNDEZ, Jerónimo.
The Famous and delectable History of Don...
London, Francis Kirkman, 1673, 1671, 1672.
First complete edition of Francis Kirkman’s...
£3750
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BUDÉ, Guillaume.
G. Budaei … Epistolarum latinarum lib....
[Paris,] Jodocus Badius, February 1531.
The first Badius combined edition of the...
£5500
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IRENICUS, Franciscus.
Germaniae exegeseos volumina duodecima...
[(Colophon:) Hagenau, Thomas Anshelm for...
First editions of a pair of sixteenth-century...
£3500
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MORI, Ascanio de’.
Giuoco piacevole.
Mantua, Giacomo Ruffinello, 1575.
First edition of an uncommon Renaissance...
£950
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[QUARITCH.]
Guillaume Postel (1510–1581).
Quaritch, 2006.
A catalogue of a collection of the works...
£60
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MAUGIN, Jean.
Histoire du noble Tristan, prince de Leonnois,...
Paris, Nicolas Bonfons, 1586.
A scarce edition of the New Tristan,...
£4750
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URCEO, Antonio [or Codro].
Hoc Codri volumine haec continentur. ...
Bologna, Giovanni Antonio Benedetti, 7...
First edition of a quintessential piece...
£3000
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BLANCHON, Jacques.
Iacobi Blanchoni Ucessiensis adversus Ludovicum...
Lyons, Jean de Tournes, 1550.
First edition of a very rare work of sixteenth-century...
£950
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MIRANDULA (or MIRANDOLA), Ottaviano.
Illustrium poetarum flores.
Antwerp, Joannes Bellerus, 1563.
A remarkable copy, with numerous and eloquent...
£1950
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LELAND, John.
The Itinerary of John Leland, in or about...
London, Centaur Press Ltd, 1964.
The authoritative edition of Leland’s...
£50
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GAGUIN, Robert.
La mer des croniques et mirouer hystorial...
Paris, [Bernard Aubry for] Jacques Nyverd,...
Very rare Paris vernacular edition (first...
£8500
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CAVALCANTI, Bartolomeo.
La retorica … divisa in sette libri,...
Venice, Gabriel Giolitto, 1559.
Second edition, published in the same year...
£2250