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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LUCIAN of Samosata; Étienne MOQUOT, editor.
Luciani Samosatensis dialogi selecti. Cum...
Lyons, Claude Obert, 1636.
Uncommon parallel Greek and Latin edition...
£375
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LUCRETIUS.
Titi Lucretii Cari de rerum natura libri...
Padua, Giuseppe Comino [for Volpi], 2...
First Volpi–Comino edition of Lucretius’s...
£450
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LUDOPHUS of Saxony.
In Psal. David, diligentiss. Simul, &...
[Lyons,] A. Vincent, [1542].
Uncommon and significant edition of one...
£2000
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LUIGINI, Francesco.
In librum Q. Horatii Flacci de arte poetica...
Venice, [(colophon:) sons of] Aldus, 1554.
First and only edition of Luigini’s commentary...
£850
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MABLY, Gabriel Bonnot, Abbé de.
Observations on the Romans. Written originally...
London: Printed for R. Griffiths … 1751.
First English edition of this Roman history...
£875
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MACROBIUS, Ambrosius Theodosius.
Somnium Scipionis ex Ciceronis libro De...
Venice, Filippo Pinzi, 29 October 1500.
Sixth and last incunable edition of Macrobius,...
£9500
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MAGGI, Lorenzo.
I sacri hinni, che si leggono in tutto...
Venice, Francesco Rampazetto, 1567.
Very rare first edition of this collection...
£500
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MAGNON, Jean.
Les heures du Chrestien, divisées en trois...
Paris, se vendent chez l’autheur …...
First edition of this handsomely illustrated...
£650
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MANCINI, Celso.
Il padrino Christiano … per formare i...
Ferrara, Vittorio Baldini, 1592.
Rare first edition of a meditational work...
£950
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[MAPS.]
‘Carte du Vicariat Apost. de Péking...
[China], 1896.
Two handsome maps providing a snapshot...
£1800
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[MARABOTTA, Cattaneo.]
Vita della serafica S. Caterina da Genova.
Genoa, Tipografia Frugoni, 1832.
Rare first edition thus, an attractive...
£185
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[MARIAN DEVOTION.]
Embroidered silk panel depicting the Virgin...
[Netherlands, early eighteenth century?]
A delightful silk panel, embroidered over...
£600
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MARKISH, Peretz Davidovich.
Rubezh. Izbrannye stikhi [Threshold....
[Selected poems]. Moscow, Goslitizdat, 1933.
First edition in Russian of the first book...
£1800
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MARLIANI, Bartolomeo.
Urbis Romae topographia.
Rome, Valerio & Luigi Dorico, September 1544.
First illustrated edition (third overall),...
£5500
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MARSILIUS of Inghen, GILES of Rome, and ALBERT of Saxony.
Marsilii de genera[tione et corruptione]....
[(Colophon:) Venice, [Boneto Locatello...
A trio of late thirteenth- and fourteenth-century...
£1500
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MARTIAL.
Epigrammaton libri XIII. Ex fide vetustissimorum...
Paris, Jean Libert, 1612 [(colophon:) 1613].
An uncommon small-format edition of Martial’s...
£650
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[MASCHERANA, Girolamo.]
Concordia tra la società e la religione...
Milan, Cesare Orena nella stamperia Malatesta,...
Rare second edition, printed in the same...
£375
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[MASS.]
Cerimonie piu’ notabili della messa privata;...
Turin, Gianfranco Mairesse, 1739.
An apparently unrecorded edition of...
£300
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MAURIZI, Maria Luisa.
Morali e divote riflessioni a tutti utilissime...
Rome, Tipografia della Pia Unione alle...
Uncommon first edition of this collection...
£150
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MAXIMUS OF TYRE.
Μαξιμου Τυριου φιλοσοφου...
[Geneva,] Henri II Estienne, 1557.
Editio princeps of the forty-one...
£1500