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. [SIBYLLINE ORACLES.]

    Σιβυλλιακοι χρησμοι hoc...

    Paris, [Compagnie du grande navire], 1607.

    Second edition of a comprehensive scholarly...

    £975

  2. [SIGONIO, Carlo.] Marcus Tullius CICERO, attributed; [Claude MIGNAULT, editor].

    M. Tullii Ciceronis consolatio. Liber,...

    Nunc primum repertus, et in lucem editus...

    Extremely rare early edition of Sigonio’s...

    £1500

  3. SILIUS ITALICUS, C.; John CAREY, editor.

    Punicorum libri XVII, sedulâ recensione...

    London, T. Davison for Rodwell & Martin,...

    First and only ‘Regent’s Classics’...

    £100

  4. SOPHOCLES.

    ‘Αι του Σοφοκλεους τραγωδιαι...

    Eton, Joseph Pote; and sold by C. Bathurst...

    An attractive Eton-printed edition of Thomas...

    £400

  5. [SOPHOCLES.]

    Tragoediae superstites et deperditarum...

    Oxford, University Press, 1832.

    First Oxford edition of the Sophocles of...

    £200

  6. SOPHOCLES. 

    Tragoediae Sophoclis quotquot extant carmine...

    Antwerp, Jean Bellère, 1584.

    An early seventeenth-century sammelband...

    £950

  7. [SPENCE, Joseph.] Nicholas TINDAL.

    A Guide to classical Learning: or, Polymetis...

    London, J. Dodsley, 1777.

    Second illustrated edition (fourth overall)...

    £250

  8. STANCOVICH, Pietro.

    Dello anfiteatro di Pola, dei gradi marmorei...

    Venice, Giuseppe Picotti, 1822.

    First edition, uncut in the original wrappers,...

    £275

  9. STATIUS, P. Papinius; John CAREY, editor.

    Opera, sedula recensione accurata [cover: Recensuit...

    London, T. Davison for Rodwell & Martin,...

    An attractive copy, uncut in the publisher’s...

    £120

  10. STEPHANUS of Byzantium; HANNO; Abraham Van BERKEL, editor and translator.

    Genuina Stephani Byzantini de urbibus et...

    Leiden, Daniel van Gaasbeeck, 1674.

    First edition thus, a volume of short and...

    £450

  11. [STRASBOURG GYMNASIUM.]

    Educationis puerilis linguae Graece, pars...

    Strasbourg, Josias Rihel, 1568.

    Extremely rare early edition of this Greek...

    £3500

  12. SUETONIUS.

    [De XII Caesarum vitis. De Illustribus...

    Paris, Typographia Regia, 1644.

    An attractive, illustrated pocket Suetonius....

    £350

  13. 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

  14. TACITUS. 

    C. Cornelius Tacitus, cum optimis exemplaribus...

    Amsterdam, Daniel Elzevir, 1678. 

    A remarkably fresh set of the third and...

    £275

  15. TACITUS, Cornelius.

    Les oeuvres … a sçavoir, les Annales...

    Paris, Jean Houzé, 1599.

    Rare anonymous French translation of the...

    £750

  16. [TACOLI, Carlotta Munarini, Marchioness.]

    ‘Memorie riguardanti la storia filosofica...

    Modena, 1805.

    An unpublished manuscript introduction...

    £1250

  17. TERENCE.

    Les comedies … avec la traduction et...

    Rotterdam, Gaspar Fritsch, 1717.

    A fine edition of Anne Dacier’s French...

    £850

  18. TERENCE.

    P. Terentii comoediae sex elegantissimae,...

    Basel, the heirs of Nicolaus Brylinger, 1567.

    A thoroughly annotated student edition...

    £1750

  19. TERENCE Afer, Publius. 

    Comoediae sex, tum ex Donati commentariis...

    Paris, Robert Estienne, 1529. 

    First folio edition of Terence’s comedies...

    £1500

  20. TERENCE; Daniel HEINSIUS, editor.

    Pub. Terentii comoediae sex, ex recensione...

    Amsterdam, Henrik Wetstein, [c. 1700].

    A small-format edition of Terence’s comedies,...

    £145