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. MORI, Ascanio de’.

    Giuoco piacevole.

    Mantua, Giacomo Ruffinello, 1575.

    First edition of an uncommon Renaissance...

    £950

  2. PETRONIUS.

    Satyricon, eiusdemque fragmenta, illustrata...

    Leiden, Justus Livius, 1645.

    Third edition of the Satyricon as...

    £950

  3. PLATO; [Marsilio FICINO].

    Platonis opera.

    [(Colophon:) Venice, Filippo Pinzi, 22...

    Third edition of Marsilio Ficino’s important...

    £5000

  4. [QUARITCH.]

    Guillaume Postel (1510–1581).

    Quaritch, 2006.

    A catalogue of a collection of the works...

    £60

  5. RIDOLFI, Luca Antonio. 

    Aretefila, dialogo, nel quale da una parte...

    Lyons, Guillaume Rouillé, 1562. 

    The third edition (first 1557) of a remarkable...

    £2800

  6. ROSSI, Ottavio, and Bartolomeo FONTANA, compiler.

    Lettere del Sig. Ottavio Rossi. Raccolte...

    Brescia, Bartolomeo Fontana, 1621.

    First edition of over 150 letters by the...

    £1250

  7. [SAVONAROLA, Girolamo.] Ambrogio Caterino POLITI.

    Discorso … contra la dottrina, et le...

    Venice, Giolito, 1548.

    First edition of a condemnation of Savonarola’s...

    £1500

  8. SIMEONI, Gabriele.

    Le III parti del campo de primi studii...

    [(Colophon:) Venice, Comin da Trino], 1546.

    First edition of this early work by Simeoni,...

    £950

  9. SIMONETTA, Bonifacio.

    De Christiane Fidei et Romanorum Pontificum...

    [(Colophon:) Basel, Nicolaus Kesler, 1509.]

    A beautiful copy of the second edition...

    £4500

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

    Περι του Πελοποννησιακου...

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

    A richly annotated and extra-illustrated...

    £2250

  11. URCEO, Antonio [or Codro]. 

    Hoc Codri volumine haec continentur. ...

    Bologna, Giovanni Antonio Benedetti, 7...

    First edition of a quintessential piece...

    £3000