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. EPICTETUS.

    Το του Επικτητου εγχειριδιον....

    Glasgow, Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1751.

    The first miniature Foulis edition of Epictetus...

    £650

  2. EPIPHANIUS, Pseudo-; Gonzalo PONCE DE LEÓN, editor and translator.

    Εις τον φυσιολογον. Του...

    Antwerp, Christophe Plantin, 1588.

    Second edition, with finely engraved illustrations...

    £675

  3. ERASMUS, Desiderius.

    Desid. Erasmi Roterodami Colloquia nunc...

    Amsterdam, Jodocus Janssonius, 1644.

    Later edition of Erasmus’ highly influential...

    £125

  4. EUCLID.

    Στοιχειων βιβλ. ιε εκ...

    Basel, Johannes Herwagen, September 1533.

    Editio princeps of Euclid, the ‘oldest...

    £18000

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

    Euclidis elementorum libri XV Graece et...

    Paris, Guillaume Cavellat, 1557.

    First edition of Euclid’s Elements...

    £5500

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

    Βιοι φιλοσοφων και σοφιστων...

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

    An uncommon edition of the twenty-four...

    £450

  7. EUTROPIUS; Sextus AURELIUS VICTOR; Sextus Rufus [FESTUS]. 

    Historiae romanae breviarium, ad codices...

    Paris, brothers Barbou, 1793.

    First edition by Capperonnier of this collection...

    £275

  8. FAGNANI, Giovanni Marco.

    De bello Arriano libri sex.

    Milan, heirs of Pacifico da Ponte and...

    First and only edition of the sole published...

    £900

  9. FARINGTON, Susan Maria (illustrator). 

    The 104th Psalm.  Illustrated by Susan...

    ...

    The Faringtons or Ffaringtons were an ancient...

    £650

  10. [FENTON, Sir Geoffrey.]

    Golden Epistles, conteyning Varietie of...

    London, Ralph Newbery, 1577.

    Second edition of Fenton’s Golden...

    £3250

  11. FERNÁNDEZ, Jerónimo.

    The Famous and delectable History of Don...

    London, Francis Kirkman, 1673, 1671, 1672.

    First complete edition of Francis Kirkman’s...

    £3750

  12. FERRAZZI, Marc’Antonio.

    Dissertationes criticae in linguam hebraicam …

    Padua, ‘Typis Seminarii’, 1691.

    Rare first edition of this philological...

    £600

  13. FERRER, Vincent, Saint.

    Sermones … de tempore pars hiemalis [– de...

    Strasbourg, [Printer of the 1483 Jordanus...

    A substantial volume of sermons by the...

    £4500

  14. FIAMMA, Gabriele. 

    Prediche del reverendo don Gabriel Fiamma,...

    Venice, Francesco Senese, 1570.

    Scarce third edition of this collection...

    £400

  15. [FILLASTRE], Guillaume.

    Le premier [– second] volume de la Thoison...

    Paris, Jean Petit [for Poncet Le Preux],...

    Rare third edition (first, 1516) of the...

    £9500

  16. FISHER, John.

    Assertionum Martini Lutheri confutatio,...

    Cologne, Eucharius Cervicornus for Gottfried...

    Later edition (first 1523) of this highly...

    £3000

  17. FLORUS, Lucius. 

    Lucii Flori rerum ab urbe condita liber...

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

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

    £750

  18. [FOCQUENBERGUES, Jean de, attributed.]

    Le voyage de Bethel, avec des méditations...

    Guernsey, Chevalier and Mauger, 1819.

    A seemingly unrecorded Guernsey edition...

    £350

  19. FORD, Simon.

    The Restoring of fallen Brethren: containing...

    London, Printed for Henry Mortlock … 1697.

    First edition, the last published work...

    £275

  20. [FRANCISCANS.]

    Orationes dicendae in expositione SS. Sacramenti...

    [Northern Italy, 1787 and later.]

    An intriguing devotional manuscript compiled...

    £1250