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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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  • Pottier, François, French missionary in China and Vicar Apostolic of Sichuan (1726-1792). Autograph document signed. Co-signed by Pierre Lacerre, designated Vicar …Macau, 23 Nov 1755.

    € 3,500.00

  • Faria y Sousa, Manuel de. Asia Portuguesa.Lisbon, 1666, 1674-1675.

    € 40,000.00

  • Halbe, Max, Schriftsteller (1865-1944). Eigenh. Brief mit U. und eh. Gedichtmanuskript mit U.München und o. O., 05.06.1904 und o. D.

    € 220.00

  • [Arabic dictionary manuscript]. "Vocabularium italico-arabicum". Arabic-Italian dictionary.Probably Egypt, ca. 1770.

    € 18,000.00

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  • Boniface VIII, Pope (ca 1230-1303). Letter of indulgence for the church "Beati Nicolai" at the monastery of …St Peter, Rome, 1298.

    € 25,000.00

  • [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 Unpublished manuscript journal of a British voyage to the Gulf, containing …Middle East, mainly Arabian Peninsula, Persia, Africa, and India, 1928-1931, with additional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.

    € 145,000.00

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

    € 4,500.00

  • Hese, Johannes Witte de. Itinerarius Joannis de Hese presbyteri a Hierusalem describens dispositiones …Deventer, 1504.

    € 45,000.00