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. LIVY, Titus. 

    T. Livii Patauini […] ex XIIII Decadibus...

    Paris, [Michel Vascosan for] Oudin Petit,...

    A much-praised edition of Livy’s History,...

    £3800

  2. LONGINUS, [Pseudo-]; Jonathan TOUP and David RUHNKEN, editors.

    Quae supersunt Graece et Latine.

    Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1778.

    The first Toup edition of Longinus’ On...

    £375

  3. LUCAN.

    Pharsalia cum annotationibus in margine...

    Antwerp, Michael Hillenius, 1528.

    An uncommon edition of Lucan’s poem on...

    £2500

  4. LUCIAN of Samosata.

    Opera graece et latine ad editionem Tiberii...

    Zweibrücken, Typographia Societatis,...

    Renouard’s copy of the Bipontine Lucian,...

    £8000

  5. LUCIAN of Samosata; Étienne MOQUOT, editor.

    Luciani Samosatensis dialogi selecti. Cum...

    Lyons, Claude Obert, 1636.

    Uncommon parallel Greek and Latin edition...

    £375

  6. LUCRETIUS. 

    Titi Lucretii Cari de rerum natura libri...

    Padua, Giuseppe Comino [for Volpi], 2...

    First Volpi–Comino edition of Lucretius’s...

    £450

  7. LUIGINI, Francesco.

    In librum Q. Horatii Flacci de arte poetica...

    Venice, [(colophon:) sons of] Aldus, 1554.

    First and only edition of Luigini’s commentary...

    £850

  8. MACROBIUS, Ambrosius Theodosius.

    Somnium Scipionis ex Ciceronis libro De...

    Venice, Filippo Pinzi, 29 October 1500.

    Sixth and last incunable edition of Macrobius,...

    £9500

  9. MARLIANI, Bartolomeo.

    Urbis Romae topographia.

    Rome, Valerio & Luigi Dorico, September 1544.

    First illustrated edition (third overall),...

    £5500

  10. MARSILIUS of Inghen, GILES of Rome, and ALBERT of Saxony.

    Marsilii de genera[tione et corruptione]....

    [(Colophon:) Venice, [Boneto Locatello...

    A trio of late thirteenth- and fourteenth-century...

    £1500

  11. MARTIAL.

    Epigrammaton libri XIII. Ex fide vetustissimorum...

    Paris, Jean Libert, 1612 [(colophon:) 1613].

    An uncommon small-format edition of Martial’s...

    £650

  12. MAXIMUS OF TYRE.

    Μαξιμου Τυριου φιλοσοφου...

    [Geneva,] Henri II Estienne, 1557.

    Editio princeps of the forty-one...

    £1500

  13. MAXIMUS the Confessor; Jean PICOT, translator.

    Sanctissimi patris magistrique, Maximi,...

    [(Colophon:) Paris,] Guillaume Morel, [1560].

    First edition of Jean Picot’s Latin translation...

    £850

  14. MERCURIALE, Girolamo. 

    De arte gymnastica libri sex, in quibus...

    Venice, [Lucantonio II] Giunta, 1587. 

    Third edition of ‘the first illustrated...

    £2750

  15. MILBANK, Augustus Sussex.

    A Treatise upon the political & social...

    [Richmond, M. Bell for] London, Messrs...

    First and only edition of a rare Yorkshire-printed...

    £125

  16. MIRANDULA (or MIRANDOLA), Ottaviano. 

    Illustrium poetarum flores. 

    Antwerp, Joannes Bellerus, 1563. 

    A remarkable copy, with numerous and eloquent...

    £1950

  17. [MOREAN WAR.]

    Journal of the Venetian Campaigne, A.D. 1687. under...

    London, H.C. for R. Taylor, 1688.

    First edition of an important account of...

    £2500

  18. MUSGRAVE, Samuel.

    Two Dissertations. I. On the Graecian...

    London, printed by J. Nichols, 1782.

    First edition of this work by the classical...

    £450

  19. NOMEXY, Nicolas de.

    Parnassus poeticus … nunc primum in Germania...

    Rome, Guglielmo Facciotti, for Vincenzo...

    A bestselling compilation of Latin verse,...

    £650

  20. NONIUS MARCELLUS.

    De proprietate sermonum. Iam demum innumeris...

    Antwerp, Christophe Plantin, 1565.

    First critical edition of this grammar...

    £450