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. [ALVISET, Jean Antoine.]

    L’Ange gardien. Pour les devotes confreries...

    Lyon, Jacques du Creux, 1647.

    Very rare devotional manual for female...

    £350

  2. AMADUZZI, Giovanni Cristoforo.

    Epistola ad Johannem Baptistam Bodonium...

    [(Colophon:) Parma, Bodoni, 1791.]

    First edition of Amaduzzi’s philological...

    £275

  3. ANACREON.

    Ανακρεοντος τηιου μελη...

    Parma, [Bodoni] ‘in aedibus Palatinis’,...

    Thick paper copy, apparently one of 12...

    £650

  4. ANSELMI, Giorgio, the younger. 

    Georgii Anselmi nepotis Epigrammaton libri...

    Venice, Maffeo Pasini, September 1528. 

    The definitive edition of the epigrams...

    £875

  5. [ANTHOLOGIA GRAECA PLANUDEA.]

    [Edited by Janus Lascaris.]

    [Florence, Lorenzo di Francesco de Alopa,...

    Editio princeps, a beautiful printing...

    £16500

  6. ANTONIUS de Vercellis.

    Sermones quadragesimales de XII mirabilibus...

    Venice, Johannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis,...

    A remarkable copy of the first edition...

    £8500

  7. APPIAN of Alexandria.

    Civili. Appiano Alessandrino delle guerre...

    Venice, [Pietro Nicolini da Sabbio for...

    A much-annotated copy of these late Aldine...

    £3000

  8. [AQUHORTIES.]

    Abstract of the Rules and Regulations for...

    Edinburgh, Printed by J. Moir, Paterson’s...

    Broadside rules for the newly established...

    £850

  9. [ARCHCONFRATERNITY OF THE MOST HOLY CRUCIFIX.]

    Distinta descrizione della machina, luminari,...

    Rome, per il Casaletti, 1775.

    Rare record of a procession made by members...

    £250

  10. [ARCHCONFRATERNITY OF SAN GIOVANNI DECOLLATO.]

    ...

    Rome, second half of eighteenth century.

    An unusual woodcut – likely intended...

    £500

  11. ARIAS, Francisco.

    Paleys der deughden begrypende de naervolghinghe...

    Antwerp, Gheleyn Janssens, 1609.

    First Dutch edition of this work of Marian...

    £375

  12. ARISTAENETUS.

    Επιστολαι … Epistolae graecae....

    Paris, Marc Orry, 1610.

    A volume of fictional Greek love stories,...

    £1250

  13. ARISTIDES, Aelius.

    Orationum tomi tres, nunc primum latine...

    Basel, Peter Perna and Heinrich Petrus, 1566.

    First edition in Latin, a remarkable copy...

    £2750

  14. ARISTOPHANES.

    The Frogs, a Comedy. Translated from the...

    Oxford, J. and J. Fletcher; London,...

    First edition in English, and the only...

    £500

  15. ARISTOPHANES, and Henry Francis CARY, translator.

    The Birds … with Notes.

    London, Printed for Taylor and Hessey …...

    First edition of the first metrical translation...

    £350

  16. ARISTOTLE.

    De animo, libri III. Ioachimo Perionio...

    Paris, Thomas Richard, 1561.

    Rare edition of Aristotle’s On the...

    £575

  17. ARISTOTLE; THEOPHRASTUS; Theodorus GAZA and Pietro ALCIONIO, translators.

    Historiae. Cum de natura Animalium, tum...

    Lyons, [Nicolas Bacquenois for] Guillaume...

    A union of Aristotle on animals and Theophrastus...

    £800

  18. ARNIGIO, Bartolomeo.

    Rime dell’Arnigio per la ill[ustre] signora...

    Brescia, Giovanni Battista Bozzola, 1566.

    First edition of Bartolomeo Arnigio’s...

    £1750

  19. AUGUSTINE, Pseudo-, et al. 

    Opusculum multarum bonaru[m] rerum refertum,...

    Venice, Pietro Quarengi, 6 March 1512. 

    Uncommon edition of various devotional...

    £750

  20. AUGUSTINUS TRIUMPHUS [i.e. AUGUSTINUS de Ancona].  

    Summa de potestate ecclesiastica.

    Augsburg, [Johann Schüssler,] 6 March 1473.

    First edition of this highly important...

    £22500