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. LELAND, John.

    The Itinerary of John Leland, in or about...

    London, Centaur Press Ltd, 1964.

    The authoritative edition of Leland’s...

    £50

  2. 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

  3. [MAILLES, Jacques de.]

    La tresioyeuse plaisante & recreative hystoire...

    Paris, [(colophon:) Nicolas Cousteau for]...

    First edition of Jacques de Mailles’...

    £12500

  4. MAUGIN, Jean.

    Histoire du noble Tristan, prince de Leonnois,...

    Paris, Nicolas Bonfons, 1586.

    A scarce edition of the New Tristan,...

    £4750

  5. MIRANDULA (or MIRANDOLA), Ottaviano. 

    Illustrium poetarum flores. 

    Antwerp, Joannes Bellerus, 1563. 

    A remarkable copy, with numerous and eloquent...

    £1950

  6. PETRONIUS.

    Satyricon, eiusdemque fragmenta, illustrata...

    Leiden, Justus Livius, 1645.

    Third edition of the Satyricon as...

    £950

  7. PIUS II, Pope (Enea Silvio PICCOLOMINI); Nicolaus DE WYLE, editor.

    [Epistolae familiares; De duobus amantibus...

    [Reutlingen, Michael Greyff, not after 1478.]

    First combined edition of Pius II’s...

    £12500

  8. PLATO; [Marsilio FICINO].

    Platonis opera.

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

    Third edition of Marsilio Ficino’s important...

    £5000

  9. [QUARITCH.]

    Guillaume Postel (1510–1581).

    Quaritch, 2006.

    A catalogue of a collection of the works...

    £60

  10. SBRUGLIO, Riccardo.

    Richardi Sbrulii equitis Foroiuliani Cesareiq[ue]...

    [(Colophon:) Augsburg, Hans von Erfurt, 1519.]

    First edition, very rare, of these neo-Latin...

    £1800

  11. SIMONETTA, Bonifacio.

    De Christiane Fidei et Romanorum Pontificum...

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

    A beautiful copy of the second edition...

    £4500

  12. TARTAGLIA, Niccolò Fontana.

    Quesiti, et inventioni diverse.

    [(Colophon:) Venice, Venturino Ruffinelli...

    First edition, annotated throughout by...

    £6750

  13. THUCYDIDES; Lorenzo VALLA, translator; Henri ESTIENNE, editor.

    Περι του Πελοποννησιακου...

    [Geneva, Henri II Estienne for] Frankfurt,...

    A richly annotated and extra-illustrated...

    £2250