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. PEROTTO, Niccolò, and Benedetto BRUGNOLO, editor.

    Cornucopi[a]e nuper emendatum a domino...

    [Milan], Giovanni Giacomo and brothers...

    Scarce Milanese edition of Perotto’s...

    £1750

  2. PERSIUS; [Thomas BREWSTER, translator].

    The Satires of Persius translated into...

    London, Printed for A. Millar, 1751.

    Second edition, with the addition of Bayle’s...

    £375

  3. PERUCCI, Francesco.

    Pompe funebri di tutte le nationi del mondo,...

    Verona, Francesco Rossi, 1639.

    First edition of Perucci’s account of...

    £975

  4. PETRONIUS.

    Satyricon, eiusdemque fragmenta, illustrata...

    Leiden, Justus Livius, 1645.

    Third edition of the Satyricon as...

    £950

  5. PETRONIUS ARBITER, Titus.

    Satyricon; et diversorum poëtarum lusus...

    Utrecht, Gijsbert van Zijll and Dirck...

    A volume of Silver Age satire and lewd...

    £350

  6. PIGHIUS, Stephanus Vinandus.

    Themis dea, seu de lege divina … Mythologia...

    Antwerp, Christopher Plantin, 1568.

    First edition of Pighius’s two treatises...

    £450

  7. PINDAR. 

    Carmina, ex editione Chr. Gottl. Heyne. 

    Oxford, N. Bliss for M. Bliss and R. Bliss...

    An attractive Oxford-printed pocket edition...

    £175

  8. PLATO; Jean DE SERRES, translator and commentator; Henri ESTIENNE, editor.

    Απαντα τα σωζομενα …...

    [Geneva], Henri Estienne, 1578.

    A magnificent large-paper copy of the first...

    £18000

  9. PLATO; [Marsilio FICINO].

    Platonis opera.

    [(Colophon:) Venice, Filippo Pinzi, 22...

    Third edition of Marsilio Ficino’s important...

    £5000

  10. PLINY the Younger. 

    Caii Plinii Caecilii Secundi Opera quae...

    Glasgow, Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1751.

    A handsome quarto Pliny from the Foulis...

    £600

  11. PLINY the Younger. 

    Caii Plinii Caecilii Secundi Opera quae...

    Glasgow, Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1751.

    A handsome Foulis Press pocket Pliny. The...

    £850

  12. PLINY the Younger.

    Panegyricus Trajano Augusto dictus.

    Paris, [Charles Crapelet for] Antoine-Augustin...

    An attractive edition of Pliny’s only...

    £275

  13. PLINY the Younger.

    In hoc volumine continentur. C. Plinii...

    [(Colophon:) Venice, Giovanni and Bernardino...

    A presentation copy from the Portuguese...

    £1750

  14. PLINY the Younger; Filippo BEROALDO, editor.

    Epistolae Plinii ad Traianum cum panegyrico....

    [(Colophon:) Bologna, Benedetto Faelli,...

    A pair of Bologna printings of short works...

    £3500

  15. PLUTARCH.

    La seconda & ultima parte delle vite di...

    Venice, Nicolao di Aristotile detto Zoppino,...

    An attractive illustrated edition of twenty-seven...

    £2750

  16. PLUTARCH.

    Τα εθικα. Moralia, id est opera,...

    Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1795–1800;...

    Gaisford’s own copy of the Oxford Plutarch...

    £2500

  17. POCOCKE, Richard. 

    A Description of the East, and some other...

    ...

    First edition, demy folio issue. A successful...

    £8000

  18. POLLUX, Julius.

    Ονομαστικον … Vocabularium.

    [(Colophon:) Venice, Aldus, April 1502.]

    Editio princeps of the oldest encyclopaedia...

    £8500

  19. POPE, [Alexander].

    The second Epistle of the second Book of...

    London, R. Dodsley, 1737.

    First edition, the issue (presumably early)...

    £275

  20. POPE, [Alexander].

    The sixth Epistle of the first Book of...

    London, L. Gilliver, 1737.

    First edition. Foxon P965; Rothschild 1638;...

    £250