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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

  • Watson, James, Molekularbiologe und Nobelpreisträger (geb. 1928). Albumblatt mit eigenh. U.O. O. u. D.

    $239.00

  • Lees, G[eorge] M[artin]. Some Structural and Stratigraphical Aspects of the Oilfields of the Middle …London, 1948.

    $380.00

  • Hillary, Sir Edmund, Bergsteiger (1919-2008). Ausschnitt mit eigenh. U.London?, Oktober 1953.

    $272.00

  • Hill, Richard Leslie. A Bibliography of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan From the Earliest Times to 1937.London, 1939.

    $380.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Lafosse, Georges. Les Musulmans dans le monde.Paris, ca. 1952.

    $3,804.00

  • Géricault, Théodore. Five complete series by the greatest horse painter of 19th century, including …Paris, 1822-1823.

    $38,036.00

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

    $4,890.00

  • [Qur'an Juz' - China]. An illuminated Qur'an, Juz' XX, written in Beijing by a Muslim woman.Khanbaliq Cambaluc, Beijing, 10 Nov. 1623 CE = 17 Muharram 1033 H.

    $135,844.00