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. [SCOTT, Walter, Sir.]

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

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

    Stated second edition but in fact a third...

    £375

  2. 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

  3. [SHANGHAI.]

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

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

    Third edition, revised and enlarged (first...

    £1250

  4. SIBILLA, Bartolomeo.

    Speculum peregrinarum quaestionum … Tres...

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

    Second Lyon edition of Sibilla’s popular...

    £1500

  5. [SIBYLLINE ORACLES.]

    Σιβυλλιακοι χρησμοι hoc...

    Paris, [Compagnie du grande navire], 1607.

    Second edition of a comprehensive scholarly...

    £975

  6. [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

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

    Punicorum libri XVII, sedulâ recensione...

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

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

    £100

  8. SIMONETTA, Bonifacio.

    De Christiane Fidei et Romanorum Pontificum...

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

    A beautiful copy of the second edition...

    £4500

  9. SOPHOCLES.

    ‘Αι του Σοφοκλεους τραγωδιαι...

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

    An attractive Eton-printed edition of Thomas...

    £400

  10. [SOPHOCLES.]

    Tragoediae superstites et deperditarum...

    Oxford, University Press, 1832.

    First Oxford edition of the Sophocles of...

    £200

  11. SOPHOCLES. 

    Tragoediae Sophoclis quotquot extant carmine...

    Antwerp, Jean Bellère, 1584.

    An early seventeenth-century sammelband...

    £950

  12. SPENCE, James.

    The Light of Heaven, on the Path of Youth:...

    1849. Preston, John Walker, and London,...

    First edition, apparently unrecorded, of...

    £175

  13. [SPENCE, Joseph.] Nicholas TINDAL.

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

    London, J. Dodsley, 1777.

    Second illustrated edition (fourth overall)...

    £250

  14. STANCOVICH, Pietro.

    Dello anfiteatro di Pola, dei gradi marmorei...

    Venice, Giuseppe Picotti, 1822.

    First edition, uncut in the original wrappers,...

    £275

  15. [STATIONS OF THE CROSS.]

    Exercice du Via Crucis, avec les pratiques...

    Caen, Nicolas-Gilles Dedouit, [c. 1825].

    Very rare manual for devotees of the Stations...

    £350

  16. STATIUS, P. Papinius; John CAREY, editor.

    Opera, sedula recensione accurata [cover: Recensuit...

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

    An attractive copy, uncut in the publisher’s...

    £120

  17. STEPHANUS of Byzantium; HANNO; Abraham Van BERKEL, editor and translator.

    Genuina Stephani Byzantini de urbibus et...

    Leiden, Daniel van Gaasbeeck, 1674.

    First edition thus, a volume of short and...

    £450

  18. STEPNIAK, Sergey. 

    דאָס אינטערערדישע רוסלאַנד...

    New York, Maks N. Maisel, 1921. 

    Scarce first American edition in Yiddish...

    £150

  19. [STRASBOURG GYMNASIUM.]

    Educationis puerilis linguae Graece, pars...

    Strasbourg, Josias Rihel, 1568.

    Extremely rare early edition of this Greek...

    £3500

  20. SUETONIUS.

    [De XII Caesarum vitis. De Illustribus...

    Paris, Typographia Regia, 1644.

    An attractive, illustrated pocket Suetonius....

    £350