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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

  • Herzmanovsky-Orlando, Fritz, Schriftsteller und Zeichner (1877-1954). Eigenh. Brief mit U.Schloss Rametz, Meran, 27 Feb 1954.

    $2,717.00

  • [Arabic and English vocabulary and phrasebook]. The Interpreter in the Arabic and English Languages, Consisting of Nouns, …N. p., ca. 1830s.

    $10,324.00

  • [Subscription receipt for the Lexicon heptaglotton]. Printed blank form completed in ink and signed by Edmund Castell (Semitic …London, 2 May 1664.

    $2,717.00

  • [Abu Dhabi]. Geomorphological map of northern part of Jabal Hafeet, U.A.E.Abu Dhabi, ca. 1970s.

    $8,151.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Nabokov, Vladimir. Lolita.Paris, August 1955.

    $4,890.00

  • Vasif, Ahmet. Mahasin al-athar wa-haqaiq al-akhbar.Bulaq, 1246 1830.

    $4,890.00

  • [Maurer- und Steinmetzbuch des Bezirks Neusiedl am See]. Register Eines Ehrsammen Handt-Werchs der Steinmetzen und Maurer, im Königlichen …Neusiedl, 1679-1831.

    $4,890.00

  • [Slave Trade]. Instructions for the Guidance of the Captains and Commanding Officers of …London, 1892.

    $38,036.00