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. THEODORET.

    Διαλογοι τρεις κατα τινων...

    Leipzig, [(colophon:) Ernst Vögelin], 1568.

    First edition of Strigel’s Latin translation...

    £1350

  2. 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

  3. THOMAS À KEMPIS.

    De imitatione Christi libri quatuor.

    ‘Leiden’ [Amsterdam], Elzevir, 1658.

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

    £675

  4. [THOMAS à Kempis.]

    Ioanni Gerson vulgare devota operetta della...

    Florence, Antonio Miscomini, 22 July 1493.

    Uncommon editions of two classic Latin...

    £5750

  5. 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

  6. THOMAS of Cantimpré.

    Bonum universale de proprietatibus apum.

    [Cologne, Johann Koelhoff, the Elder,...

    Second edition of this manual of moral...

    £6000

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

    Περι του Πελοποννησιακου...

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

    A richly annotated and extra-illustrated...

    £2250

  8. [THUMB BIBLE.]

    The Bible in Miniature, or a concise History...

    London, J. Harris, 1778.

    A very rare thumb bible, the last Harris...

    £1500

  9. TOMPSON, John, editor.

    English Miscellanies consisting of various...

    Gottingen by Abram. Vandenhoeck, Printer...

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

    £300

  10. TRIMMER, [Sarah], Mrs.

    An Explanation of the Office for the public...

    London, printed for T. Longman, and G. G. J. and...

    First edition, dedicated with the Queen’s...

    £650

  11. TUCKER, Josiah.

    Betydande frågor om handelen, wid tilfålle...

    [v. Oelreich], 1763.

    First Swedish edition, scarce, of this...

    £200

  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. URSINIS, Bartholomaeus de.

    [Quadragesimale quod dicitur Gratia Dei.]

    [Naples, Francesco del Tuppo for Bernardinus...

    First and only edition, a handsome, wide-margined...

    £27500

  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. VALERIUS MAXIMUS, Gaius.

    Dictorum factorumque memorabilium exempla....

    Carmagnola, Marcantonio Bellone, 1607.

    Rare edition of Valerius Maximus, provincially...

    £450

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

    [Imperatorum XII a Suetonio descriptorum...

    [Netherlands or Rome, early seventeenth...

    A set of large-format equestrian portraits...

    £1500

  18. VELLEIUS PATERCULUS.

    Quae supersunt ex historiae Romanae voluminibus...

    Glasgow, Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1752.

    First and only Foulis Press edition, unusually...

    £425

  19. VIGER, François.

    De praecipuis graecae dictionis idiotismis...

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

    Second London edition of this treatise...

    £175

  20. VIRGIL.

    Publii Virgilii Maronis opera, variorum...

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

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

    £650