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.
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MUSGRAVE, Samuel.
Two Dissertations. I. On the Graecian Mythology. II. An Examination of Sir Isaac Newton’s Objections to...
London, printed by J. Nichols, 1782.
First edition of this work by the classical scholar Samuel Musgrave (1732–1780), published posthumously for the benefit of the author’s widow, with a generous list of subscribers thanks to the efforts of the editor, Thomas Tyrwhitt.
£450
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MARLIANI, Bartolomeo.
Urbis Romae topographia.
Rome, Valerio & Luigi Dorico, September 1544.
First illustrated edition (third overall), considerably expanded, providing a comprehensive visual record of ancient structures and sculptures in Rome as known in the sixteenth century.
£5500
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VALERIUS MAXIMUS, Gaius.
Valerii Maximi dictorum, & factorum memorabilium libri novem.
[(Colophon:) Sélestat, Lazarus Schürer, December 1520.]
Very rare edition of Valerius Maximus printed at Sélestat in eastern France, profusely annotated in a sixteenth-century German hand.
£2250
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SUETONIUS Tranquillus, Gaius, and HERODIAN OF ANTIOCH.
Vita di duodeci imperatori… nuovamente tradotta in volgare. Historia...
Venice, Venturino di Rossinelli [for Curzio Navò], 1539.
Annotated copy of a scarce edition of this early Italian translation of Suetonius and Herodianus, two works of ancient history which explore the lives and deeds of Roman emperors from Julius Caesar to Domitian, and from Commodus to the Year of the Six Emperors in 238. The translator of this vernacular...
£1250
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POLLUX, Julius.
Ονομαστικον … Vocabularium.
[(Colophon:) Venice, Aldus, April 1502.]
Editio princeps of the oldest encyclopaedia from antiquity, with variant readings added in an English hand.
£8500
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XENOPHON; [Philipp MELANCHTHON, editor].
Ξενοφωντος απαντα. Xenophontis opera omnia, in tres partes distincta,...
Schwäbisch Hall, [Peter Braubach], 1540.
The first complete edition of Xenophon’s works in Greek, the earlier of two issues (see below), richly annotated in Greek, Latin, and German, from the library of Nicolas-Antoine Labbey de Billy.
£4000