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. [SOPHOCLES.]

    Tragoediae superstites et deperditarum...

    Oxford, University Press, 1832.

    First Oxford edition of the Sophocles of...

    £200

  2. SOPHOCLES. 

    Tragoediae Sophoclis quotquot extant carmine...

    Antwerp, Jean Bellère, 1584.

    An early seventeenth-century sammelband...

    £950

  3. SOPHOCLES; Adrien TURNÈBE, editor.

    Τραγωδιαι. Αιαξ μαστιγοφορος....

    Paris, Adrien Turnèbe, 1553 [(colophon:)...

    A wide-margined copy of Sophocles in Greek...

    £1850

  4. SPATARI, Pellegrino.

    Le orationi delle Messe di tutto l’anno,...

    Pesaro, Bartolomeo Cesano, 1555.

    Rare first edition of this Italian translation...

    £650

  5. [SPENCE, Joseph.] Nicholas TINDAL.

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

    London, J. Dodsley, 1777.

    Second illustrated edition (fourth overall)...

    £250

  6. STANCOVICH, Pietro.

    Dello anfiteatro di Pola, dei gradi marmorei...

    Venice, Giuseppe Picotti, 1822.

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

    £275

  7. STAPLETON, Thomas. 

    Promptuarium Catholicum ad instructionem...

    Antwerp, Pierre Beller, 1592. 

    Rare third edition, expanded, of Stapleton’s...

    £700

  8. 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

  9. STEPNIAK, Sergey. 

    דאָס אינטערערדישע רוסלאַנד...

    New York, Maks N. Maisel, 1921. 

    Scarce first American edition in Yiddish...

    £150

  10. 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

  11. SWIFT, Jonathan. 

    A Tale of a Tub … to which is added,...

    London, C. Bathurst, 1751. 

    A scarce later edition of Swift’s classic...

    £175

  12. SYKES, Arthur Ashley. 

    The Duty of Love to God, and to our Neighbours. ...

    London, J. Darby & T. Browne for Chelmsford,...

    First and only edition of this sermon given...

    £150

  13. TACITUS. 

    C. Cornelius Tacitus, cum optimis exemplaribus...

    Amsterdam, Daniel Elzevir, 1678. 

    A remarkably fresh set of the third and...

    £275

  14. TACITUS, Publius Cornelius; N. S. SMITH, translator.

    Dissertation on the Manners of the Germans,...

    London, George and William Budd Whittaker,...

    First edition, a seemingly unrecorded issue...

    £600

  15. [TACOLI, Carlotta Munarini, Marchioness.]

    ‘Memorie riguardanti la storia filosofica...

    Modena, 1805.

    An unpublished manuscript introduction...

    £1250

  16. TAULER, Johannes, attributed

    Exercitia D. Ioannis Thauleri piissima,...

    Antwerp, Philippus Nutius, 1565. 

    Uncommon Antwerp edition of Laurentius...

    £1500

  17. TERENCE.

    Les comedies … avec la traduction et...

    Rotterdam, Gaspar Fritsch, 1717.

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

    £850

  18. TERENCE.

    Comediae sex. A M. Anto. Mureto locis...

    Carmagnola, Marcantonio Bellone, 1590.

    A rare provincial printing of a school...

    £375

  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