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. CLAUDIANUS, Claudius; Tommaso MEDINA, translator.

    Il ratto di Proserpina di Claudio Claudiano...

    Brescia, Bettoni, 1804.

    Very rare first edition of a translation...

    £650

  2. CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA (Titus Flavius CLEMENS); Gentian HERVET, translator.

    Omnia opera.

    Paris, Sebastien Nivelle, 1572.

    A thoroughly annotated copy of this early...

    £4750

  3. CONTI, Natale.

    Mythologiae, sive explicationis fabularum,...

    Frankfurt, the heirs of Andreas Wechel, 1584.

    Scarce Frankfurt edition of the Mythologiae...

    £950

  4. CURTIUS RUFUS, Quintus.

    De rebus gestis Alexandri Magni regis Macedonum...

    Basel, Hieronymus Froben and Nicolaus...

    Handsome folio edition of Curtius Rufus’...

    £2000

  5. DIODORUS Siculus.

    Bibliothecae historicae libri XV. Hoc est,...

    Basel, Heinrich Petri, August 1559.

    Important edition, the first to be overseen...

    £2500

  6. DIOGENES LAERTIUS; Henri ESTIENNE, editor.

    Περι βιων, δογματων και...

    [Geneva], Henri Estienne, 1570.

    First Estienne edition of The Lives...

    £850

  7. DIONYSIUS of Halicarnassus.

    Antiquitatum Rom. libri XI. Ab Aemylio...

    Geneva, Jacob Stoer, 1614.

    A rare pocket-sized edition of Dionysius...

    £450

  8. DOMINICUS DE FLANDRIA.

    Dominici de Flandria ordinis predicator[um]...

    Venice, Giorgio Arrivabene for the heirs...

    Scarce early editions of two Aristotelian...

    £3000

  9. [DOVES PRESS.] 

    Pervigilium Veneris. 

    Hammersmith, ‘printed by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson...

    One of 150 copies on paper of the elusive...

    £950

  10. EPICTETUS.

    Το του Επικτητου εγχειριδιον....

    Glasgow, Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1751.

    The first miniature Foulis edition of Epictetus...

    £650

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

    Euclidis elementorum libri XV Graece et...

    Paris, Guillaume Cavellat, 1557.

    First edition of Euclid’s Elements...

    £5500

  12. EUNAPIUS; Hadrianus JUNIUS, translator; Hieronymus COMMELIN, editor.

    Βιοι φιλοσοφων και σοφιστων...

    ‘Cologny’ [Geneva], Samuel Crespin, 1616.

    An uncommon edition of the twenty-four...

    £450

  13. EUSTRATIUS of Nicaea, et al.; ARISTOTLE.

    Ευστρατιου και αλλων...

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

    Editio princeps of the Greek commentaries...

    £5500

  14. FLORUS, Lucius. 

    Lucii Flori rerum ab urbe condita liber...

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

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

    £750

  15. FREEMAN, Arthur.

    Catullus Carmen 17.6 and Other Mysteries....

    London, The Author, 2020.

    This partly historical, partly philological...

    £15

  16. FULBECKE, William.

    An Historicall Collection of the continuall...

    London, Printed for William Ponsonby. 1601.

    First edition of Fulbecke’s Historicall...

    £5250

  17. GAZA, Theodorus.

    Grammatica introductiva; De mensibus; Apollonius...

    [(Colophon:) Venice, Aldus Manutius, 25...

    A beautiful example of early Greek printing,...

    £45000

  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. GOODWIN, Thomas.

    Romanae Historiae Anthologia … An English...

    Oxford, Leonard Lichfield for Henry Cripps,...

    Early editions of these two popular schoolbooks...

    £1600