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. TERENTIUS Afer, Publius.

    Comoediae sex. Ex recensione Heinsiana,...

    Amsterdam, Jan Jansson, 1658.

    An intensely annotated copy of this rare...

    £2250

  2. THEOCRITUS, BION, MOSCHUS, SIMMIAS of Rhodes.

    Θεοκριτου … Εἰδυλλια...

    [Heidelberg], Commelin, 1596.

    First edition of the Greek Idylls published...

    £550

  3. THEOPHRASTUS; CASAUBON, Isaac, editor.

    Θεοφραστου ητικοι χαρακτηρες....

    Lyon, ‘apud viduam Ant. de Harsy’...

    Isaac Casaubon’s celebrated edition of...

    £600

  4. THUCYDIDES; Lorenzo VALLA, translator; Henri ESTIENNE, editor.

    Περι του Πελοποννησιακου...

    [Geneva, Henri II Estienne for] Frankfurt,...

    A richly annotated and extra-illustrated...

    £2250

  5. VALERIUS FLACCUS, Gaius; Giovanni Battista PIO, editor.

    Argonautica. Joan. Baptistae Pii carmen...

    Lyon, Sébastien Gryphe, 1548.

    A pocket-sized edition of several poetic...

    £475

  6. VALERIUS MAXIMUS, Gaius.

    Dictorum factorumque memorabilium exempla....

    Carmagnola, Marcantonio Bellone, 1607.

    Rare edition of Valerius Maximus, provincially...

    £450

  7. [VAN DER STRAET, Jan, after.]

    Imperatorum XII a Suetonio descriptorum...

    [Netherlands or Rome, early seventeenth...

    A set of large-format equestrian portraits...

    £1500

  8. VELLEIUS PATERCULUS.

    Quae supersunt ex historiae Romanae voluminibus...

    Glasgow, Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1752.

    First and only Foulis Press edition, unusually...

    £425

  9. VIGER, François.

    De praecipuis graecae dictionis idiotismis...

    London, G. Godbid for William Shrowsberey,...

    Second London edition of this treatise...

    £175

  10. VIRGIL.

    Publii Virgilii Maronis opera, variorum...

    London, ‘typis E. Tyler et R. Holt...

    Rare student edition of the works of Virgil,...

    £650

  11. [VIRGIL.]  RAMUS, Petrus (Pierre de la RAMÉE). 

    Georgica, P. Rami … praelectionibus...

    Paris, André Wechel, 1564. 

    Second editions of Ramus’s extensive...

    £950

  12. WOODCROFT, Bennet, editor; [J. G. GREENWOOD, translator].

    The Pneumatics of Hero of Alexandria. From...

    London, Charles Whittingham, 1851.

    First edition of this English translation...

    £300

  13. XENOPHON; Antonmaria SALVINI, translator.

    Di Senofonte Efesio degli amori di Abrocome...

    London (i.e. Florence?), ‘presso gli...

    Second edition of this erotic work on the...

    £650

  14. ZAMPELIOS, Spiridion.

    Βυζαντιναι Μελεται [Byzantine...

    Athens, Christos Nikolaidos, 1857.

    First edition. Spyros Zampelios was a champion...

    £350

  15. ZANCHI, Basilio.

    Dictionarium poeticum, et epitheta veterum...

    Mons, Luca Rivius, 1612.

    Scarce Mons-printed edition of Zanchi’s...

    £375

  16. ZOSIMUS. 

    Ιστοριας νεας βιβλοι...

    Oxford, Sheldonian Theatre, 1679. 

    First Oxford edition of this history of...

    £400

  17. ZOSIMUS.

    The New History of Count Zosimus, sometime...

    London, Joseph Hindmarsh, 1684.

    First edition of this anonymous translation...

    £950

  18. ZOSIMUS. 

    Ιστοριας νεας βιβλοι...

    Oxford, Sheldonian Theatre, 1679. 

    First Oxford edition of this history of...

    £500