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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

  • Ericsson, John, Swedish-American inventor (1803-1889). Autograph letter signed.No place, 1 May 1858.

    $1,017.00

  • [Ge'ez]. [Ge'ez healing scroll].Ethiopia or Eritrea, 19th century.

    $1,606.00

  • Crick, Francis, Physiker, Molekularbiologe und Nobelpreisträger (1916-2004). Albumblatt mit eigenh. U.O. O. u. D.

    $236.00

  • Shirazi, Qutb al-Din Mahmud al- / (Ibn Sina [Avicenna]). Al-Tuhfat al-Sa‘diya fi-t-tibb [Sa‘d’s gift to medicine].Persia, 17th century CE.

    $26,762.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Mahler-Werfel, Alma, Komponistin und Schriftstellerin (1879-1964). Eigenh. Brief mit U.New York, 13 Nov 1947.

    $2,569.00

  • [Regulations for pearl fishing in Kuwait]. Qanun al-ghawasin fi'l Kuwayt ("Manual of the [pearl] divers in Kuwait").Kuwait City, 1359 H / AD 1940.

    $9,099.00

  • Klimt, Gustav, Maler (1862-1918). Weiblicher Akt mit ausgestrecktem linkem Arm (Allegorie der Oper).Wien, 1883.

    $90,991.00

  • Mackay, Ulrich Sinclair Peter, RAF pilot (1904-1945). Two photo albums of private and operational (restricted) photos of campaigns …Mainly Middle East, 1928-1931.

    $48,172.00