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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

Lieou, Thomas Jean-Baptiste, Chinese Jesuit (1726-1796). Autograph document signed. Co-signed by the bishop of Macau, Bartholomeu …Macau, 9 Dec 1754.

[Medical manuscript]. Pharmacopoeia.Southern Germany, 18th century.

Darwin, Charles, English naturalist (1809-1882). Autograph letter signed.Down, Beckenham, Kent, 13 Jan 1881.

Andalus, Abu-I-Hassan Ali ibn Abd-ar-Rahman al-Farazi al- (Ibn Hudayl) / Mercier, Louis (transl. and ed.). L’Ornement des âmes et la devise des habitants d’el Andalus.Paris, 1939.

What’s gone: some recent sales

[British Army]. Exercise Gulf.Headquarters Army Emergency Reserve, Longmoor, Hants., 1959.

Keynes, John Maynard, British economist (1883-1946). Typed letter signed ("JMK").London, 28 Aug 1941.

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 Unpublished manuscript journal of a British voyage to the Gulf, containing …Middle East, mainly Arabian Peninsula, Persia, Africa, and India, 1928-1931, with additional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

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

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Serving the great universities, museums, and national libraries worldwide

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What’s new: recent acquisitions

Lieou, Thomas Jean-Baptiste, Chinese Jesuit (1726-1796). Autograph document signed. Co-signed by the bishop of Macau, Bartholomeu …Macau, 9 Dec 1754.

[Medical manuscript]. Pharmacopoeia.Southern Germany, 18th century.

Darwin, Charles, English naturalist (1809-1882). Autograph letter signed.Down, Beckenham, Kent, 13 Jan 1881.

Andalus, Abu-I-Hassan Ali ibn Abd-ar-Rahman al-Farazi al- (Ibn Hudayl) / Mercier, Louis (transl. and ed.). L’Ornement des âmes et la devise des habitants d’el Andalus.Paris, 1939.

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What’s gone: some recent sales

[British Army]. Exercise Gulf.Headquarters Army Emergency Reserve, Longmoor, Hants., 1959.

Keynes, John Maynard, British economist (1883-1946). Typed letter signed ("JMK").London, 28 Aug 1941.

[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.

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