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 et al.

    Theocriti aliorumque poetarum Idyllia....

    [Geneva], Henri Estienne, 1579.

    An outstanding volume uniting the Estienne...

    £9000

  3. TO THE PARLIAMENT OF ENGLAND,

    who are in Place to do Justice, and to...

    London, Printed for Thomas Simmons …, 1659.

    First edition, rare, a list of Quaker victims...

    £300

  4. [THOMAS À KEMPIS.]

    Messer Giovanni Gerson. Utile & divota...

    Florence, Piero Pacini da Pescia, 16 April...

    Scarce edition of an anonymous Italian...

    £4000

  5. THOMAS À KEMPIS.

    De imitatione Christi libri quatuor.

    ‘Leiden’ [Amsterdam], Elzevir, 1658.

    Second Elzevir edition of Thomas à Kempis’s...

    £675

  6. THOMAS À KEMPIS; Johann Michael SAILER, translator.

    Das Buch von der Nachfolgung Christi …...

    Munich, Ignaz Joseph Lentner, and Leipzig,...

    Uncommon ‘second edition’ of Thomas...

    £250

  7. THOMAS AQUINAS; Antonius PIZAMANUS, editor.

    Opuscula [with a life of St Thomas].

    Venice, Hermannus Liechtenstein, 7 September...

    First collected edition of seventy-one...

    £3750

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

    Περι του Πελοποννησιακου...

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

    A richly annotated and extra-illustrated...

    £2250

  9. TOMPSON, John, editor.

    English Miscellanies consisting of various...

    Gottingen by Abram. Vandenhoeck, Printer...

    Second edition, revised, of John Tompson’s...

    £300

  10. TUCKER, Josiah.

    Betydande frågor om handelen, wid tilfålle...

    [v. Oelreich], 1763.

    First Swedish edition, scarce, of this...

    £200

  11. TURNER, Sharon.

    The sacred history of the world, as displayed...

    London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green...

    First edition, each volume with a presentation...

    £500

  12. TYRE, William, Archbishop of, and Giuseppe OROLOGGI (translator).

    Historia della guerra sacra di Gierusalemme,...

    Venice, Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1562.

    First Italian edition of William of Tyre’s...

    £2800

  13. URCEO, Antonio [or Codro]. 

    Hoc Codri volumine haec continentur. ...

    Bologna, Giovanni Antonio Benedetti, 7...

    First edition of a quintessential piece...

    £3000

  14. VALERIUS FLACCUS, Gaius, and Louis CARRIO, translator

    Argonauticon … libri VIII, a Ludovico...

    Antwerp, Christopher Plantin, [15 July] 1565. 

    First edition, a very attractive copy,...

    £1250

  15. VALERIUS MAXIMUS, Gaius.

    Valerii Maximi dictorum, & factorum memorabilium...

    [(Colophon:) Sélestat, Lazarus Schürer,...

    Very rare edition of Valerius Maximus printed...

    £2250

  16. VALLISNERI, Alberto Maria. 

    Lettioni venti sopra gli alti, et ineffabili...

    Milan, Giovanni Battista da Ponte & fratelli,...

    Very rare first edition of a collection...

    £500

  17. VELLEIUS PATERCULUS.

    Quae supersunt ex historiae Romanae voluminibus...

    Glasgow, Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1752.

    First and only Foulis Press edition, unusually...

    £425

  18. VIGER, François.

    De praecipuis graecae dictionis idiotismis...

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

    Second London edition of this treatise...

    £175

  19. VINCENT OF LÉRINS.

    The Waie home to Christ and Truth leadinge...

    [London, Robert Caly, 22 October 1554].

    First edition in English, very rare, of...

    £9500

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

    Georgica, P. Rami … praelectionibus...

    Paris, André Wechel, 1564. 

    Second editions of Ramus’s extensive...

    £950