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. HIEROCLES of Alexandria.

    Ύπομνηνα εις τα των Πυθαγορειων...

    London, J. R. [John Redmayne] for J. Williams,...

    London edition of the only complete work...

    £500

  2. HIPPOCRATES.

    The Eight Sections of Hippocrates Aphorismes...

    London, W. G. for Rob. Crofts, 1665.

    First edition of this translation of the...

    £850

  3. HOMER; Hubert VAN GIFFEN, editor.

    Οδυσσεια … Odyssea … Batrachomyomachia,...

    Cum praefatione, scholiis, & indice …...

    First Rihel edition of the Odyssey,...

    £850

  4. HOMER, and Alexander POPE (translator).

    The Iliad of Homer. Translated from the...

    McCulloch, P. Stuart, 1795.

    First American edition of Pope’s rendering...

    £850

  5. [HOMILETIC.] 

    Meditations de la seconde annee. 

    [France, c. 1700.] 

    Apparently unpublished set of meditations...

    £750

  6. HORACE.

    ...

    Edinburgh, George Mosman, 1704.

    A rare, modestly printed Scottish Horace,...

    £450

  7. HORACE.

    Quinti Horatii Flacci Opera cum novo commentario...

    Paris, Didot, 1855.

    The deluxe issue of Didot’s Horace, a...

    £750

  8. HORACE.

    Quinti Horatii Flacci poemata, novis scholiis...

    [Geneva, Henri Estienne, 1574.]

    First Henri Estienne edition of the works...

    £2500

  9. HORACE; James TATE, editor

    Horatius restitutus: or the books...

    Cambridge, J. Smith for J. & J.J. Deighton,...

    First edition of this attempt to arrange...

    £150

  10. [HOSPICE SAINT-NICOLAS, METZ.]

    Deed granting land to the hospice.

    Metz, 5 May 1464.

    A significant document recording the grant...

    £450

  11. HOSPINIAN, Rudolf. 

    Historia Jesuitica.  Hoc est, de origine,...

    Zurich, Johannes Rudolph Wolf, 1670. 

    Second edition of Hospinian’s vast and...

    £800

  12. HOSSCHIUS, Sidronius.

    Sidronii Hosschii e Societate Iesu elegiarum...

    Antwerp, Balthasar Moretus ‘ex officina...

    First collected edition of the neo-Latin...

    £600

  13. HYGINUS Gromaticus, attributed, and POLYBIUS.

    De Castris Romanis, quae extant. Cum notis...

    Amsterdam, Jodocus Pluymer, 1660.

    First edition thus, with annotations by...

    £1000

  14. IBN VERGA, Solomon; Georg GENTIUS, translator.

    Historia Judaica res Judaeorum ab eversa...

    Amsterdam, Pieter Niellius, 1651.

    First Latin edition of Solomon Ibn Verga’s...

    £3750

  15. [INCUNABLE SAMMELBAND.]

    Sammelband of ten works.

    Rome, Stephan Plannck and Eucharius Silber,...

    A sammelband of ten Roman incunables, nine...

    £25000

  16. [INDULGENCE.] 

    Letter of Indulgence (in Catalan),...

    [Lerida, Heinrich Botel, c. 1498.] 

    Extremely rare incunable indulgence in...

    £34000

  17. [INDULGENCES.] 

    Indulgencias concedidas a los congregantes...

    [Barcelona, 1793.] 

    Very rare broadside detailing the indulgences...

    £175

  18. IRENICUS, Franciscus.

    Germaniae exegeseos volumina duodecima...

    [(Colophon:) Hagenau, Thomas Anshelm for...

    First editions of a pair of sixteenth-century...

    £3500

  19. ISOCRATES.

    Orationes et epistolae gravitatis et suavitatis...

    Paris, Michel de Vascosan, 1553.

    A handsome Latin edition of twenty-one...

    £750

  20. IVANOV, Vyacheslav Ivanovich.

    Прометей трагедия [Prometei...

    St Petersburg, “Alkonost”, 1919.

    First edition of Ivanov’s dramatic poem...

    £250