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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

  • [Trucial States - Sultan bin Saqr Al Qasimi]. Two early documents.Sharjah and Ras Al-Khaimah, 1943 and 1966.

    $16,285.00

  • Lees, G[eorge] M[artin]. Persia.Oxford, 1953.

    $380.00

  • Gil de Frederich y Sans, Francesco, Saint, Spanish Dominican missionary in Vietnam (1702-1745). Document with 5 autograph lines signed.Tonkin Hanoi, 5 Jul 1744.

    $2,714.00

  • [Protectorate of Aden]. [Sketchbook of watercolour views of Aden].Aden and Karachi, 1875.

    $30,400.00

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What’s gone: some recent sales

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

    $2,171.00

  • Einstein, Albert, German physicist and Nobel laureate (1879-1955). Typed letter signed ("A. Einstein").Nassau Point, Peconic, Long Island, NY, 1 Jul 1939.

    $7,600.00

  • Mao Zedong, Chinese statesman (1893-1976). Autograph inscription signed in: Mao Zedong, "Hsin min-chu-chu-i lun" ("On …No place, 1942.

    $1,085,700.00

  • Zweig, Stefan. Die frühen Kränze.Leipzig, 1906.

    $1,954.00