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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

  • Pedrini, Teodorico, Italian missionary, musician, and composer at the Imperial Court in Beijing (1671-1746). Autograph document signed. Co-signed by the bishop of Beijing, Polycarpo …Beijing, 1642-1646.

    $3,250.00

  • Cooley, William Desborough. The Negroland of the Arabs Examined and Explained.London, 1841.

    $4,333.00

  • [I Ching]. Wilhelm, Richard / Baynes, Cary F. (transl.) / Jung, Carl Gustav (foreword). The I Ching or Book of Changes.London, 1965.

    $30,331.00

  • Ghaffar, Al-Sayyid Abd al-. [Praying around the Kaaba].Mecca, ca. 1887.

    $5,200.00

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What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Wodehouse, P[elham] G[renville], English writer (1881-1975). Autograph letter signed.Le Touquet, 12 Feb 1936.

    $1,625.00

  • [La Pira, Gioacchino, Italian painter (active 1839-1870) - attrib.]. A group of ten masterly gouaches of Naples and surroundings from the collection …Naples, ca. 1855-1866.

    $135,406.00

  • Brentano, Franz, Philosoph und Psychologe (1838-1917). Eigenh. Brief mit U.Aschaffenburg, 6 Feb 1874.

    $487.00

  • Blanckenhorn, [Prof. Dr. Max]. Die Hedschaz-Bahn auf Grund eigener Reisestudien.Berlin, 1907.

    $3,791.00