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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SALLUST.
Caii Sallustii Crispi quae extant.
London, James Tonson and John Watts, 1713.
First Maittaire edition. The French-born...
£300
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SALLUST.
C. Crispi Sallustii opera omnia quae exstant,...
Frankfurt, Zacharias Palthenius for Jonas...
The works of Sallust edited by the philologist...
£1500
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SAUBERT, Johann.
Miracula Augustanae Confessionis, [engraved...
[Nuremberg,] Wolffgang Endter, 1631.
First editions of three works of Lutheran...
£2850
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[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,...
£2500
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SBRUGLIO, Riccardo.
Richardi Sbrulii equitis Foroiuliani Cesareiq[ue]...
[(Colophon:) Augsburg, Hans von Erfurt, 1519.]
First edition, very rare, of these neo-Latin...
£1800
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SCALVO, Bartolomeo.
Rosariae preces ad gloriosam Dei genitricem...
Milan, Pacificus Pontius, 1569.
First edition of this Marian book of prayers...
£3500
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SCHEFFER, Johannes Gerhard.
Constantini Opelii de fabrica triremium...
‘Eleuteropoli’ [Freistadt?], 1672.
First edition of this treatise on the ancient...
£875
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[SCOTT, Walter, Sir.]
Ivanhoe; A Romance. By “The Author of...
Edinburgh, [James Ballantyne & Co.] for...
Stated second edition but in fact a third...
£375
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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
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[SERMONS.]
[Sermones sensati.]
[(Colophon:) Gouda, Gerard Leeu, 20 February...
First and only incunable edition of a rare...
£8500
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[SHANGHAI.]
Shanghai of To-day. A Souvenir Album of...
Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Singapore, Kelly...
Third edition, revised and enlarged (first...
£1250
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SIBILLA, Bartolomeo.
Speculum peregrinarum quaestionum … Tres...
[(Colophon:) Lyon, Jacques Myt, 9 August 1521.]
Second Lyon edition of Sibilla’s popular...
£1500
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[SIBYLLINE ORACLES.]
Σιβυλλιακοι χρησμοι hoc...
Paris, [Compagnie du grande navire], 1607.
Second edition of a comprehensive scholarly...
£975
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[SIGONIO, Carlo.] Marcus Tullius CICERO, attributed; [Claude MIGNAULT, editor].
M. Tullii Ciceronis consolatio. Liber,...
Nunc primum repertus, et in lucem editus...
Extremely rare early edition of Sigonio’s...
£1500
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SILIUS ITALICUS, C.; John CAREY, editor.
Punicorum libri XVII, sedulâ recensione...
London, T. Davison for Rodwell & Martin,...
First and only ‘Regent’s Classics’...
£100
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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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SOPHOCLES.
‘Αι του Σοφοκλεους τραγωδιαι...
Eton, Joseph Pote; and sold by C. Bathurst...
An attractive Eton-printed edition of Thomas...
£400
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[SOPHOCLES.]
Tragoediae superstites et deperditarum...
Oxford, University Press, 1832.
First Oxford edition of the Sophocles of...
£200
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SOPHOCLES.
Tragoediae Sophoclis quotquot extant carmine...
Antwerp, Jean Bellère, 1584.
An early seventeenth-century sammelband...
£950
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[SPENCE, Joseph.] Nicholas TINDAL.
A Guide to classical Learning: or, Polymetis...
London, J. Dodsley, 1777.
Second illustrated edition (fourth overall)...
£250