Literature

Our ‘Literature’ section offers a panoply of authors, genres, and time-periods, ranging from Renaissance editions of classical Latin and Greek authors to Victorian literary annuals containing contributions by contemporary writers. The different literary genres covered include the medieval chivalric romances of Chrétien de Troyes, the classic prose works of Cervantes and Rabelais, the poetry of Chaucer and Gower, and dramatic works by Corneille and Fletcher.

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  • MOLLOY, Francis. Grammatica Latino-Hibernica.

    Rome, Ex Typographia S. Cong. de Propag. Fide, 1677 £2,500.00 More Details

  • [ANON] Pathomachia

    Pathomachia: or, The battell of affections

    London, Printed by Thomas and Richard Coats, for Francis Constable, 1630 £5,750.00 More Details

  • [BEMBO, Pietro, NAVAGERO, Andrea, CASTIGLIONE, Baldassare, COTTA, Giovanni, FLAMINIO, Marco Antonio].

    [BEMBO, Pietro, NAVAGERO, Andrea, CASTIGLIONE, Baldassare, COTTA, Giovanni, FLAMINIO, Marco Antonio] Carmina quinque illustrium poetarum

    Florence, apud Laurentium Torrentinum, 1552 £4,250.00 More Details

  • [BROWNE, William]

    [BROWNE, William] Britannia’s pastorals. The first booke.

    London, by Iohn Hauiland, 1635 £4,500.00 More Details

  • [CARMINA] [with] PINDAR

    [CARMINA] (with) PINDAR Carminum poetarum novem, lyricae poeseos principum, fragmenta.(with)Olympia, Pythia, Nemea, Isthmia. Caeterorum octo lyricorum carmina, Alcaei, Sapphus, Stesichori, Ibyci, Anacreontis (etc)

    Antwerpen, ex officina Christophe Plantin, 1567 £5,750.00 More Details

  • [GAULTIER, Jacques]

    [GAULTIER, Jacques] Rodomontades Espagnolles. Colligées des commentaires des tres espouentables ... Capitaines, Matamares, Crocodille & Rojobroqueles, Fanfaron. Rodomuntadas Castellanas. ... Avec les figures representants les Mœurs des Espagnols

    Rouen, Jacques Caillüé, 1650 £6,500.00 More Details

  • [RUSTICHELLO DA PISA].

    [RUSTICHELLO DA PISA]. Meliadus de Leonnoys.

    Paris, Denis Janot, [1532, but 1533]. £12,500.00 More Details

  • [Silves de la Selva – Gohory, Jacques].

    [Silves de la Selva - Gohory, Jacques] Le treziesme livre d᾽Amadis de Gaule

    Montluel, Barthélemy Prost, 1576. £3,250.00 More Details

  • [TABOUROT, Étienne]

    [TABOUROT, Étienne] Les Bigarrures, et Touches du Seigneur des Accords…; Le Quatriesme des Bigarrures du Seigneur des Accords; Les Touches du Seigneur des Accords; Les Contes Faceciuex du Sieur Gaulard; Les Escraignes Dijonnaises

    Rouen, David Geuffroy, 1616-1621 £2,250.00 More Details

  • [TROYES, Chrétien de].

    [TROYES, Chrétien de]. Cest lhystoire du sainct Greaal. Qui est le premier liure de la Table ronde. ..

    Paris, Philippe le Noir, 24 octobre 1523 £17,500.00 More Details

  • ACCADEMICI TIMIDI

    [ACCADEMICI TIMIDI] Rime degli Accademici Timidi ... per fregio della laurea ... dell’una, e l’altra Legge.

    Mantua, Alberto Pazzoni, 1731 £1,250.00 More Details

  • AESCHYLUS

    AESCHYLUS. Aeschyli tragoediae VII.

    Antwerp, Christophorus Plantinus, 1580. £3,850.00 More Details

  • AESOP

    AESOP Vita & Fabulae...cum interpretatione Latina [and other works]

    Venice, Apud Aldum, 1505, October £59,500.00 More Details

  • AINSWORTH, William Harrison

    AINSWORTH, W. Harrison Jack Sheppard. A Romance

    London, Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1840 £450.00 More Details

  • ALAMANNI, Luigi.

    ALAMANNI, Luigi. La Coltivazione

    Florence, Bernardo Giunti, 1549 £3,500.00 More Details

  • ARISTOPHANES.

    ARISTOPHANES. Les comedie del facetis, translated by Bartolommeo Rosettini & Pietro Rositini.

    Venice, Vincenzo Vaugris, 1545 £3,500.00 More Details

  • ARRIVABENE, Ludovico.

    ARRIVABENE, Ludovico. Istoria della China

    Verona, Angelo Tamo, 1599 £2,950.00 More Details

  • AUGUSTA, Eudocia; FALCONIA, Proba; NONNUS OF PANOPOLIS.

    AUGUSTA, Eudocia; FALCONIA, Proba; NONNUS OF PANOPOLIS. Homerici Centones [...] Virgiliani Centones [...] Nonni Paraphrasis Evangelii Ioannis.

    [Geneva], Henri Estienne, 1578. £2,400.00 More Details

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