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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.

What’s new: recent acquisitions

  • Autograph letter signed.

    Tosti, Paolo, Italian composer (1846-1916). Autograph letter signed.London, 14 Aug. no year.

    € 350.00
  • Ottoman manuscript almanac.

    [Almanac]. Ottoman manuscript almanac.Ottoman Turkey, 1840 CE = 1256 Rumi.

    € 850.00
  • Autograph letter signed.

    Farnie, Henry Brougham, Scottish operatic librettist (1836-1889). Autograph letter signed.Paris, 4 Feb 1883.

    € 220.00
  • Motor Tracks and Sabaean Inscriptions in Najd. (In: The Geographical Journal Vol. CXVI Nos 4-6. December 1950).

    Philby, Harry St John Bridger. Motor Tracks and Sabaean Inscriptions in Najd. (In: The Geographical Journal …London, 1950.

    € 1,500.00

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What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Itinerarius Joannis de Hese presbyteri a Hierusalem describens dispositiones terrarum insularum montium et aquarum. Ac etiam quedam mirabilia et pericula per diversas partes mundi contingentia lucidissime enarrans. Tractatus de decem nationibus et sectis christianorum. Epistola Joannis soldani ad Pium papam secundum. Epistola responsoria Pii pape ad soldanum. Joannis presbyteri, maximi Indorum et Ethiopum christianorum imperatoris et patriarche, epistola ad Emanuelem, Rome gubernatorem, de ritu et moribus Indorum deque ejus potentia, divitiis et excellentia. Tractatus pulcherrimus de situ et dispositione regionum et insularum totius Indie, necnon de rerum mirabilium ac gentium diversitate.

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

    € 45,000.00
  • Hortulus Animae. Lustgarten der Seelen: Mit schönen lieblichen Figuren.

    (Rhau, Georg). Hortulus Animae. Lustgarten der Seelen: Mit schönen lieblichen Figuren.Wittenberg, 1550.

    € 8,500.00
  • Illuminated Hinduistic manuscript.

    [Hinduism]. Illuminated Hinduistic manuscript.India, early 19th century.

    € 9,500.00
  • 44 eigenh. Briefe und Karten mit U.

    Kubin, Alfred, Graphiker und Schriftsteller (1877-1959). 44 eigenh. Briefe und Karten mit U.Meist Zwickledt, 1934 bis 1950.

    € 22,000.00