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. PFEFFER DE WYDENBERG, Johannes.

    [Directorium sacerdotale.]

    [Basel, Johann Besicken, after 20 December...

    First and only incunable edition, very...

    £6500

  2. 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

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

    Apparecchio per accompagnare Maria Santissima...

    Rome, Komarek, 1735.

    Very rare devotional work dedicated to...

    £550

  4. PIGHIUS, Stephanus Vinandus.

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

    Antwerp, Christopher Plantin, 1568.

    First edition of Pighius’s two treatises...

    £450

  5. PINDAR. 

    Carmina, ex editione Chr. Gottl. Heyne. 

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

    An attractive Oxford-printed pocket edition...

    £175

  6. 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

  7. PLATO; Jean DE SERRES, translator and commentator; Henri ESTIENNE, editor.

    Απαντα τα σωζομενα …...

    [Geneva], Henri Estienne, 1578.

    A magnificent large-paper copy of the first...

    £18000

  8. PLATO; [Marsilio FICINO].

    Platonis opera.

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

    Third edition of Marsilio Ficino’s important...

    £5000

  9. PLINY the Younger. 

    Caii Plinii Caecilii Secundi Opera quae...

    Glasgow, Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1751.

    A handsome quarto Pliny from the Foulis...

    £600

  10. PLINY the Younger. 

    Caii Plinii Caecilii Secundi Opera quae...

    Glasgow, Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1751.

    A handsome Foulis Press pocket Pliny. The...

    £850

  11. PLINY the Younger.

    Panegyricus Trajano Augusto dictus.

    Paris, [Charles Crapelet for] Antoine-Augustin...

    An attractive edition of Pliny’s only...

    £275

  12. PLUTARCH.

    La seconda & ultima parte delle vite di...

    Venice, Nicolao di Aristotile detto Zoppino,...

    An attractive illustrated edition of twenty-seven...

    £2750

  13. PLUTARCH.

    Τα εθικα. Moralia, id est opera,...

    Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1795–1800;...

    Gaisford’s own copy of the Oxford Plutarch...

    £2500

  14. POCOCKE, Richard. 

    A Description of the East, and some other...

    ...

    First edition, demy folio issue. A successful...

    £8000

  15. POLLUX, Julius.

    Ονομαστικον εν βιβλιοις...

    Amsterdam, Wetstein, 1706.

    A crisp copy of Pollux’s second-century...

    £300

  16. POLLUX, Julius.

    Ονομαστικον … Vocabularium.

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

    Editio princeps of the oldest encyclopaedia...

    £8500

  17. POPE, [Alexander].

    The second Epistle of the second Book of...

    London, R. Dodsley, 1737.

    First edition, the issue (presumably early)...

    £275

  18. POPE, [Alexander].

    The sixth Epistle of the first Book of...

    London, L. Gilliver, 1737.

    First edition. Foxon P965; Rothschild 1638;...

    £250

  19. [POPE, Alexander.]

    The Dunciad. An heroic Poem. In three Books....

    ‘Dublin, Printed; London, Re-printed...

    Second edition, rare, and of considerable...

    £4500

  20. [PRAYER-BOOK.]

    The new and complete Family Prayer-Book,...

    London: Printed for Alex. Hogg … [1784-5.]

    First edition thus, rare, published in...

    £950