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. ROTH, Henry.

    Call it Sleep.

    London, Michael Joseph, 1963.

    First UK edition of Roth’s precocious...

    £250

  2. ROTHSCHILD, Boaz Raphael.

    [Sefer oniyah b’lev yam … Chelek rishon]....

    Fürth, Chaim ben Zvi Hirsch, 1766.

    First part of the first and only edition...

    £450

  3. ROUGEMONT, François de; [Sebastião de MAGALHÃES, translator].

    Relacam do estado politico e espiritual...

    Lisbon, Joao da Costa, 1672.

    First edition in any language of the Dutch...

    £2500

  4. [ROUSSEL DE LA TOUR, Claude Pierre GOUJET, and Abbé MINARD, editors.]

    Extraits des assertions dangereuses et...

    Paris, Pierre-Guillaume Simon, 1762.

    First edition of this systematic selection...

    £1500

  5. SABELLICO, Marco Antonio (or Marcantonio) Coccio; Petrus PONTANUS (or Du Pont, De Brugge).

    Sanctissime elegie de intemerata virgine...

    Paris, Jean de Gourmont, [c. 1513].

    One of only two recorded editions, both...

    £1400

  6. SALLUST.

    C. Sallustius Crispus cum veterum Historicorum...

    Leiden, ex officina Elzeviriana, 1634.

    The first small format Elzevir printing...

    £950

  7. SALLUST.

    Caii Sallustii Crispi quae extant.

    London, James Tonson and John Watts, 1713.

    First Maittaire edition. The French-born...

    £300

  8. ‘SANCTA CLARA, Abraham a’, i.e. Johann Ulrich MEGERLE.

    Coraggio e viltà, l’uno nella virtù,...

    Trento, Giovanni Parone, 1717.

    Scarce first and only Italian edition of...

    £2250

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

    Discorso … contra la dottrina, et le...

    Venice, Giolito, 1548.

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

    £1500

  10. [SAVOY-CARIGNAN, Maria Vittoria Francesca, Princess of.]

    Recueil de prières et de pratiques très...

    [Paris, Imprimerie Royale], 1735.

    First and only edition of this rare prayerbook,...

    £2750

  11. SCHEFFER, Johannes Gerhard. 

    Constantini Opelii de fabrica triremium...

    ‘Eleuteropoli’ [Freistadt?], 1672. 

    First edition of this treatise on the ancient...

    £875

  12. [SCOTT, Walter, Sir.]

    Ivanhoe; A Romance. By “The Author of...

    Edinburgh, [James Ballantyne & Co.] for...

    Stated second edition but in fact a third...

    £375

  13. SENECA the Younger, and SENECA the Rhetorician.

    L. Annaei Senecae philosophi opera omnia;...

    Leiden, [Bonaventure & Abraham] Elzevir,...

    First Elzevir edition of the moral works...

    £500

  14. [SHANGHAI.]

    Shanghai of To-day. A Souvenir Album of...

    Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Singapore, Kelly...

    Third edition, revised and enlarged (first...

    £1250

  15. [SIBYLLINE ORACLES.]

    Σιβυλλιακοι χρησμοι hoc...

    Paris, [Compagnie du grande navire,] 1607.

    Second edition, handsomely printed in three...

    £1200

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

    Punicorum libri XVII, sedulâ recensione...

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

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

    £100

  17. 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

  18. SIMONETTA, Bonifacio.

    De Christiane Fidei et Romanorum Pontificum...

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

    A beautiful copy of the second edition...

    £4500

  19. [SOCIETY OF JESUS.] 

    Les découvertes d’un bibliophile réduites...

    Strasbourg, L.F.  Le Roux, [1843]. 

    First edition of this scathing response...

    £375

  20. SOPHOCLES.

    ‘Αι του Σοφοκλεους τραγωδιαι...

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

    An attractive Eton-printed edition of Thomas...

    £400