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. [EMBROIDERED BINDING.]

    Etrennes mignonnes, pour l’an de grace...

    Liège, Everard Kints, [1753].

    A charming almanack for 1753 printed in...

    £400

  2. EPICTETUS.

    Το του Επικτητου εγχειριδιον....

    Glasgow, Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1751.

    The first miniature Foulis edition of Epictetus...

    £650

  3. EUCLID; Jean MAGNIEN and Stephanus GRACILIS, editors.

    Euclidis elementorum libri XV Graece et...

    Paris, Guillaume Cavellat, 1557.

    First edition of Euclid’s Elements...

    £5500

  4. EUNAPIUS.

    Ευναπιου του Σαρδιανου...

    ‘Cologne’ [but Geneva?], Samuel Crispin,...

    Very uncommon edition of the twenty-four...

    £450

  5. EUSEBIUS CAESARIENSIS; RUFINUS AQUILEIENSIS, translator.

    Historia ecclesiastica.

    Rome, Johannes Philippus de Lignamine,...

    The Syston Park copy of the earliest history...

    £4500

  6. EUSTRATIUS of Nicaea, et al.

    Ευστρατιου και αλλων...

    [(Colophon:) Venice, heirs of...

    Editio princeps of the Greek commentaries...

    £5500

  7. FAGNANI, Giovanni Marco. 

    De bello Arriano libri sex. 

    Milan, heirs of Pacifico da Ponte and...

    First and only edition of the sole published...

    £900

  8. FARINGTON, Susan Maria (illustrator). 

    The 104th Psalm.  Illustrated by Susan...

    ...

    The Faringtons or Ffaringtons were an ancient...

    £650

  9. FIAMMA, Gabriele. 

    Prediche del reverendo don Gabriel Fiamma,...

    Venice, Francesco Senese, 1570.

    Scarce third edition of this collection...

    £400

  10. FLORUS, L. Annaeus; Lucius AMPELIUS; Claude SAUMAISE, editor.

    [Rerum romanarum libri IV and Epitome...

    Leiden, Elzevir, 1638.

    The attractive Elzevir edition of Florus’...

    £650

  11. FLORUS, Lucius. 

    Lucii Flori rerum ab urbe condita liber...

    [Venice, in aedibus Aldi et Andreae Soceri,...

    Florus’s epitome of Roman history, extracted...

    £750

  12. FORD, Simon.

    The Restoring of fallen Brethren: containing...

    London, Printed for Henry Mortlock … 1697.

    First edition, the last published work...

    £275

  13. FREEMAN, Arthur.

    Catullus Carmen 17.6 and Other Mysteries....

    London, The Author, 2020.

    This partly historical, partly philological...

    £15

  14. FREUD, Sigmund.

    Moses and monotheism [translated from the...

    New York, Alfred A, Knopf, 1939.

    First American edition of the last lifetime...

    £80

  15. FRY, Theodore.

    A brief Memoir of Francis Fry, F.S.A. of...

    [London, Printed by Barclay and Fry,] 1887.

    First edition. Francis Fry (1803–1886)...

    £850

  16. FULBECKE, William.

    An Historicall Collection of the continuall...

    London, Printed for William Ponsonby. 1601.

    First edition of Fulbecke’s Historicall...

    £5250

  17. GAMON, Christophe de.

    La semaine, ou création du monde du sieur...

    [Geneva,] Gédéon Petit, 1609.

    Unauthorised second edition, scarcer than...

    £950

  18. GELLIUS, Aulus.

    Auli Gellii luculentissimi scriptoris Noctes...

    Lyon, Sebastian Gryphius, 1555.

    Gryphius edition of Aulus Gellius’ famous...

    £650

  19. GELLIUS, Aulus; [Johann Friedrich GRONOVIUS, editor].

    Noctes atticae: editio nova et prioribus...

    Amsterdam, Jan Jansson, 1651.

    Jansson’s piracy of Gronovius’s celebrated...

    £450

  20. [GEORGE V.]

    The Form and Order of the Service that...

    London, Novello & Company, 1911.

    A handsome copy of the Coronation service,...

    £450