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.
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AESOP.
Les fables et la vie d’Ésope, composée...
Caen, Pierre-Théodore Chalopin, [between...
An uncommon provincial edition of Aesop’s...
£250
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AESOP, et al.; [George STEWART, editor].
Selectiores Aesopi Phrygis fabulae, et...
Edinburgh, Tho. Ruddiman for George Stewart,...
First edition thus, scarce, a Scottish...
£375
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AMADUZZI, Giovanni Cristoforo.
Epistola ad Johannem Baptistam Bodonium...
[(Colophon:) Parma, Bodoni, 1791.]
First edition of Amaduzzi’s philological...
£275
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ANACREON.
Ανακρεοντος τηιου μελη...
Parma, [Bodoni] ‘in aedibus Palatinis’,...
Thick paper copy, apparently one of 12...
£650
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[ANTHOLOGIA GRAECA PLANUDEA.]
[Edited by Janus Lascaris.]
[Florence, Lorenzo di Francesco de Alopa,...
Editio princeps, a beautiful printing...
£16500
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APPIAN of Alexandria.
Civili. Appiano Alessandrino delle guerre...
Venice, [Pietro Nicolini da Sabbio for...
A much-annotated copy of these late Aldine...
£3000
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ARISTAENETUS.
Επιστολαι … Epistolae graecae....
Paris, Marc Orry, 1610.
A volume of fictional Greek love stories,...
£1250
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ARISTIDES, Aelius.
Orationum tomi tres, nunc primum latine...
Basel, Peter Perna and Heinrich Petrus, 1566.
First edition in Latin, a remarkable copy...
£2750
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ARISTOPHANES.
The Frogs, a Comedy. Translated from the...
Oxford, J. and J. Fletcher; London,...
First edition in English, and the only...
£500
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ARISTOPHANES, and Henry Francis CARY, translator.
The Birds … with Notes.
London, Printed for Taylor and Hessey …...
First edition of the first metrical translation...
£350
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ARISTOTLE.
De animo, libri III. Ioachimo Perionio...
Paris, Thomas Richard, 1561.
Rare edition of Aristotle’s On the...
£575
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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
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AURELIUS VICTOR, Sextus.
Historiae romanae breviarium. A Jano &...
Antwerp, Christophe Plantin, 1579.
A pair of abbreviated histories based on...
£1450
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BACON, Francis.
Historia vitae et mortis.
Amsterdam, Johannes van Ravesteyn, 1663.
Pocket-sized Amsterdam editions of three...
£975
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[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
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BOETHIUS; Richard GRAHAM, Viscount Preston, translator.
Of the Consolation of Philosophy. In five...
London, J. D. for Awnsham and John Churchill,...
First edition of this translation by the...
£950
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CAESAR, Gaius Julius.
C. Julii Caesaris quae extant. Accuratissime...
London, Jacob Tonson, 1712.
First edition of the celebrated Tonson’s...
£9500
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[CAESAR.] RAMUS, Petrus (Pierre de la RAMÉE).
Liber de militia C. Julii Caesaris, cum...
Frankfurt, heirs of Andreas Wechel, 1584.
An attractively bound copy of Ramus’s...
£450
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CARO Y CEJUDO, Gerónimo Martín.
Refranes y modos de hablar, castellanos...
Madrid, Julián Izquierdo, 1675.
First edition, the Heber–Chorley–Stirling Maxwell–de Guinzbourg...
£1750
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CARTARI, Vincenzo.
Le imagini con la spositione de i dei de...
Venice, Francesco Marcolini, 1556.
First edition of Cartari’s influential...
£800