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Established in 1883 and considered the trade’s leading business in Austria ever since, we have been dealing in rare books, manuscripts and autographs for more than a century, serving private collectors and institutional customers all over the world.

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What’s new: recent acquisitions

[Chinese rites controversy, Vicariate of Western Tonkin.] - Huan, François, Vietnamese missionary (fl. 1750). Autograph document signed. Co-signed by the Vicar Apostolic of Western …Tonkin, 20 Dec 1750.

[Salt, Henry]. Egypt. A Descriptive Poem with Notes by a Traveller.Alexandria, 1824.

Freud, Sigmund, Austrian neurologist, founder of psychoanalysis (1856-1939). Autograph letter signed ("Freud").Vienna, 28 Jul 1927.

[Arabian Sea]. Arabian Sea. Chart No. 143. East Sheet.London, 1896.

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[La Pira, Gioacchino, Italian painter (active 1839-1870) - attrib.]. A group of nineteen masterly gouaches of Naples and surroundings from the …Naples, ca. 1855-1866.

[Logbook of HMS Effingham in the Gulf]. Larken, Francis Wyatt Rawson, Royal Navy officer (1911-1985). Unpublished manuscript journal of a British voyage to the Gulf, containing …Middle East, mainly Arabian Peninsula, Persia, Africa, and India, 1928-1931, with additional material to 1951.

Mann, Thomas, German writer and Nobel laureate (1875-1955). Typed letter signed.Zürich, 16 Jun 1949.

Aldini, Giovanni. Essai théoretique et expérimental sur le galvanisme, avec une série …Paris, 1804.

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Serving the great universities, museums, and national libraries worldwide

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What’s new: recent acquisitions

[Chinese rites controversy, Vicariate of Western Tonkin.] - Huan, François, Vietnamese missionary (fl. 1750). Autograph document signed. Co-signed by the Vicar Apostolic of Western …Tonkin, 20 Dec 1750.

[Salt, Henry]. Egypt. A Descriptive Poem with Notes by a Traveller.Alexandria, 1824.

Freud, Sigmund, Austrian neurologist, founder of psychoanalysis (1856-1939). Autograph letter signed ("Freud").Vienna, 28 Jul 1927.

[Arabian Sea]. Arabian Sea. Chart No. 143. East Sheet.London, 1896.

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[La Pira, Gioacchino, Italian painter (active 1839-1870) - attrib.]. A group of nineteen masterly gouaches of Naples and surroundings from the …Naples, ca. 1855-1866.

[Logbook of HMS Effingham in the Gulf]. Larken, Francis Wyatt Rawson, Royal Navy officer (1911-1985). Unpublished manuscript journal of a British voyage to the Gulf, containing …Middle East, mainly Arabian Peninsula, Persia, Africa, and India, 1928-1931, with additional material to 1951.

Mann, Thomas, German writer and Nobel laureate (1875-1955). Typed letter signed.Zürich, 16 Jun 1949.

Aldini, Giovanni. Essai théoretique et expérimental sur le galvanisme, avec une série …Paris, 1804.