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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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Hernández, Santiago, Spanish Dominican missionary in Vietnam and Vicar Apostolic of Eastern Tonkin (1723-1777). Autograph document signed. Co-signed by Hilario di Jesu Costa, Vicar Apostolic …Haiphong, 1 May 1751.

[Militaria.] Brun, Giovanni, engraver. Scuola del Soldato.No place, first half of the 19th century.

Andersen, Hans Christian, Danish poet (1805-1875). Lykke Peer. With autograph inscription signed.Copenhagen, 1870.

Ibn al-Farid. Diwan Ibn al-Farid.No place, 1709 CE = 1121 H.

What’s gone: some recent sales

[Hinduism]. Sanskrit scroll.India, Rajasthan, 19th century.

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 Unpublished manuscript journal of a British voyage to the Gulf, containing …Middle East, mainly Arabian Peninsula, Persia, Africa, and India, 1928-1931, with additional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

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

Vitruvius Pollio, Marcus. [De architectura libri decem].Venice, 22 May 1511.

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What’s new: recent acquisitions

Hernández, Santiago, Spanish Dominican missionary in Vietnam and Vicar Apostolic of Eastern Tonkin (1723-1777). Autograph document signed. Co-signed by Hilario di Jesu Costa, Vicar Apostolic …Haiphong, 1 May 1751.

[Militaria.] Brun, Giovanni, engraver. Scuola del Soldato.No place, first half of the 19th century.

Andersen, Hans Christian, Danish poet (1805-1875). Lykke Peer. With autograph inscription signed.Copenhagen, 1870.

Ibn al-Farid. Diwan Ibn al-Farid.No place, 1709 CE = 1121 H.

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What’s gone: some recent sales

[Hinduism]. Sanskrit scroll.India, Rajasthan, 19th century.

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 Unpublished manuscript journal of a British voyage to the Gulf, containing …Middle East, mainly Arabian Peninsula, Persia, Africa, and India, 1928-1931, with additional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

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

Vitruvius Pollio, Marcus. [De architectura libri decem].Venice, 22 May 1511.