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. SALLUST.

    Caii Sallustii Crispi quae extant.

    London, James Tonson and John Watts, 1713.

    First Maittaire edition. The French-born...

    £300

  2. SALLUST.

    C. Crispi Sallustii opera omnia quae exstant,...

    Frankfurt, Zacharias Palthenius for Jonas...

    The works of Sallust edited by the philologist...

    £1500

  3. SAUBERT, Johann.

    Miracula Augustanae Confessionis, [engraved...

    [Nuremberg,] Wolffgang Endter, 1631.

    First editions of three works of Lutheran...

    £2850

  4. [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

  5. SBRUGLIO, Riccardo.

    Richardi Sbrulii equitis Foroiuliani Cesareiq[ue]...

    [(Colophon:) Augsburg, Hans von Erfurt, 1519.]

    First edition, very rare, of these neo-Latin...

    £1800

  6. SCALVO, Bartolomeo.

    Rosariae preces ad gloriosam Dei genitricem...

    Milan, Pacificus Pontius, 1569.

    First edition of this Marian book of prayers...

    £3500

  7. SCHEFFER, Johannes Gerhard. 

    Constantini Opelii de fabrica triremium...

    ‘Eleuteropoli’ [Freistadt?], 1672. 

    First edition of this treatise on the ancient...

    £875

  8. [SCOTT, Walter, Sir.]

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

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

    Stated second edition but in fact a third...

    £375

  9. 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

  10. [SERMONS.]

    [Sermones sensati.]

    [(Colophon:) Gouda, Gerard Leeu, 20 February...

    First and only incunable edition of a rare...

    £8500

  11. [SHANGHAI.]

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

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

    Third edition, revised and enlarged (first...

    £1250

  12. SIBILLA, Bartolomeo.

    Speculum peregrinarum quaestionum … Tres...

    [(Colophon:) Lyon, Jacques Myt, 9 August 1521.]

    Second Lyon edition of Sibilla’s popular...

    £1500

  13. [SIBYLLINE ORACLES.]

    Σιβυλλιακοι χρησμοι hoc...

    Paris, [Compagnie du grande navire], 1607.

    Second edition of a comprehensive scholarly...

    £975

  14. [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

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

    Punicorum libri XVII, sedulâ recensione...

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

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

    £100

  16. SIMONETTA, Bonifacio.

    De Christiane Fidei et Romanorum Pontificum...

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

    A beautiful copy of the second edition...

    £4500

  17. SOPHOCLES.

    ‘Αι του Σοφοκλεους τραγωδιαι...

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

    An attractive Eton-printed edition of Thomas...

    £400

  18. [SOPHOCLES.]

    Tragoediae superstites et deperditarum...

    Oxford, University Press, 1832.

    First Oxford edition of the Sophocles of...

    £200

  19. SOPHOCLES. 

    Tragoediae Sophoclis quotquot extant carmine...

    Antwerp, Jean Bellère, 1584.

    An early seventeenth-century sammelband...

    £950

  20. [SPENCE, Joseph.] Nicholas TINDAL.

    A Guide to classical Learning: or, Polymetis...

    London, J. Dodsley, 1777.

    Second illustrated edition (fourth overall)...

    £250