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. NONIUS MARCELLUS.

    De proprietate sermonum. Iam demum innumeris...

    Antwerp, Christophe Plantin, 1565.

    First critical edition of this grammar...

    £450

  2. [ORDE, John Powlett.]

    A collection of 111 original compositions...

    Eton, 1818–1820.

    A delightful insight into classical education...

    £1750

  3. ORIBASIUS. 

    Commentaria in Aphorismos Hippocratis …...

    Paris, Simon de Colines, 1533. 

    First edition of this commentary on Hippocrates,...

    £1750

  4. [ORPHIC POEMS.]

    Ορφεως αργοναυτικα υμνοι...

    Utrecht, Willem van de Water, 1689.

    First Eschenbach edition, presenting the...

    £325

  5. OVID.

    P. Ovidii Nasonis operum …

    Leiden, [Bonaventure & Abraham] Elzevir, 1629.

    First Elzevir edition, newly edited by...

    £500

  6. [OXFORD UNIVERSITY.]

    Pietas Universitatis Oxoniensis in obitum...

    Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1761.

    First edition, one of fifty copies on large...

    £10000

  7. PACE, Giulio.

    Artis Lullianae emendatae libri IV. Quibus...

    Naples, Secondino Roncagliolo, 1631.

     Rare third edition (first 1618) of this...

    £750

  8. PACIFICUS, Sacerdos.

    Two letters signed regarding religious...

    [?Hong Kong, 1846.]

    Two interesting letters referring to paintings...

    £1100

  9. PAPINI, Roberto.

    Le Arti d’Oggi: Architettura e Arti Decorative...

    Milan and Rome, Bestetti and Tumminelli, 1930.

    First edition of a thorough and extensively...

    £300

  10. PEACOCK, Thomas Love.

    Rhododaphne: or the Thessalian Spell. A Poem.

    London, T. Hookham, Jun., and Baldwin,...

    First edition of Peacock’s last and most...

    £750

  11. PEROTTO, Niccolò, and Benedetto BRUGNOLO, editor.

    Cornucopi[a]e nuper emendatum a domino...

    [Milan], Giovanni Giacomo and brothers...

    Scarce Milanese edition of Perotto’s...

    £1750

  12. PERSIUS; [Thomas BREWSTER, translator].

    The Satires of Persius translated into...

    London, Printed for A. Millar, 1751.

    Second edition, with the addition of Bayle’s...

    £375

  13. PERUCCI, Francesco.

    Pompe funebri di tutte le nationi del mondo,...

    Verona, Francesco Rossi, 1639.

    First edition of Perucci’s account of...

    £975

  14. PETRINI, Giovanni.

    Sixteen copper engravings depicting scenes...

    [Rome, late eighteenth century.]

    An attractive volume containing sixteen...

    £1750

  15. PETRONIUS.

    Satyricon, eiusdemque fragmenta, illustrata...

    Leiden, Justus Livius, 1645.

    Third edition of the Satyricon as...

    £950

  16. PIERTZ, Leonhard, Praesidens; Johann Ernst SCHLERETH, Respondens.

    De sacramentis in specie, Eucharistia et...

    Würzburg, Johann Michael Kleyer, 1703.

    A good copy of this rare Würzburg dissertation...

    £175

  17. ‘PIETRO da VICOVARO’, i.e. Giuseppe CORTESE.

    Apparecchio per accompagnare Maria Santissima...

    Rome, Komarek, 1735.

    Very rare devotional work dedicated to...

    £550

  18. PIGHIUS, Stephanus Vinandus.

    Themis dea, seu de lege divina … Mythologia...

    Antwerp, Christopher Plantin, 1568.

    First edition of Pighius’s two treatises...

    £450

  19. PINDAR. 

    Carmina, ex editione Chr. Gottl. Heyne. 

    Oxford, N. Bliss for M. Bliss and R. Bliss...

    An attractive Oxford-printed pocket edition...

    £175

  20. PITOU, Louis-Ange.

    L’Urne des Stuarts et des Bourbons, ou...

    Paris, [Beraud for] L.A. Pitou, 31 August...

    First and only surviving edition of this...

    £650