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. LACTANTIUS.

    Opera.

    [Venice,] Vindelinus de Spira, 1472.

    Magnificent incunable edition of the works...

    £25000

  2. [ANTHOLOGIA GRAECA PLANUDEA.]

    [Edited by Janus Lascaris.]

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

    Editio princeps, a beautiful printing...

    £16500

  3. MACROBIUS, Ambrosius Theodosius.

    Somnium Scipionis ex Ciceronis libro De...

    Venice, Filippo Pinzi, 29 October 1500.

    Sixth and last incunable edition of Macrobius,...

    £9500

  4. POLLUX, Julius.

    Ονομαστικον … Vocabularium.

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

    Editio princeps of the oldest encyclopaedia...

    £8500

  5. 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

  6. JUSTINUS, Marcus Junianus, Lucius Annaeus FLORUS, and Sextus RUFUS.

    Iustini Historia ex Trogo Pompeio quattuor...

    Paris, Jean Petit [and Jean Marchant], [1509].

    A collection of abbreviated Roman histories,...

    £1850

  7. PLINY the Younger.

    In hoc volumine continentur. C. Plinii...

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

    A presentation copy from the Portuguese...

    £1750

  8. PLATO; [Marsilio FICINO].

    Platonis opera.

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

    Third edition of Marsilio Ficino’s important...

    £5000

  9. 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

  10. FLORUS, Lucius. 

    Lucii Flori rerum ab urbe condita liber...

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

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

    £750

  11. JUSTINUS, Marcus Junianus; Cornelius NEPOS.

    Trogi Pompei externae historiae in compendium...

    Venice, ‘in aedibus Aldi et Andreae...

    First Aldine edition of Justinus’ abridgement...

    £1850

  12. [BIBLE – OLD TESTAMENT and APOCRYPHA, Greek; Johann LONITZER, editor.]

    Της θειας γραφης παλαιας...

    Strasbourg, Wolfgang Köpfel, 1526.

    The first edition of the Old Testament...

    £8500

  13. TERENCE Afer, Publius. 

    Comoediae sex, tum ex Donati commentariis...

    Paris, Robert Estienne, 1529. 

    First folio edition of Terence’s comedies...

    £1500

  14. CLAUDIANUS, Claudius.

    Claudii Claudiani Alexandrini, poetae illustriss. quotquot...

    Paris, Simon de Colines, 1530.

    First Colines edition of the major works...

    £850

  15. QUINTILIAN, Marcus Fabius.

    Institutiones oratoriae, ac Declamationes,...

    [Paris,] Badius Ascensius for Ascensius...

    Rare reprint of Badius’s successful 1528...

    £1250

  16. EUCLID.

    Στοιχειων βιβλ. ιε εκ...

    Basel, Johannes Herwagen, September 1533.

    Editio princeps of Euclid, the ‘oldest...

    £18000

  17. DIO CASSIUS; Niccolò LEONICENO, translator.

    Dione historico delle guerre et fatti de...

    Venice, Niccolò Zoppino, March 1533.

    First edition of Dio Cassius’s Roman...

    £2500

  18. APPIAN of Alexandria.

    Civili. Appiano Alessandrino delle guerre...

    Venice, [Pietro Nicolini da Sabbio for...

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

    £3000

  19. SUETONIUS Tranquillus, Gaius, and HERODIAN OF ANTIOCH.

    Vita di duodeci imperatori… nuovamente...

    Venice, Venturino di Rossinelli [for Curzio...

    Annotated copy of a scarce edition of this...

    £1250

  20. LIVY, Titus. 

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

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

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

    £3800