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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

  • Bartholdi, Frédéric-Auguste, sculptor (1834-1904). Print with autograph signature.Paris, no date.

    $1,958.00

  • Lawrence, Thomas Edward, British explorer, intelligence officer, and writer (1888-1935). Autograph letter signed. ("TEShaw").No place, 2 May 1930.

    $7,072.00

  • Wolf, Johann Christian, Philologe und Bibliothekar (1690-1770). Eigenh. Albumblatt mit U.Hamburg, 24 May 1736.

    $653.00

  • Soliman, Mahmoud Soliman. First Congress of Iron and Steel [...]. Geology of the Manganese Deposits …Cairo, 1961.

    $381.00

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What’s gone: some recent sales

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

    $1,087,962.00

  • [Saudi Arabia - Aramco]. Warner, Daniel Warren Brickell, American architect (1914-2005). Housing studies for Aramco.Rome, 1952-1954.

    $7,072.00

  • [DNA structure]. Crick, Francis; Watson, James Dewey; and others. The milestone papers on the structure of DNA in "Nature", vols. 171 and …London, 1953.

    $10,336.00

  • Chimani, Leopold. Bunte Scenerien aus dem Menschenleben. Ein Bilderbuch ganz neuer Art.Wien, 1836.

    $13,600.00