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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.

    $1,031.00

  • Cooley, William Desborough. Inner Africa Laid Open.London, 1852.

    $2,170.00

  • Sand, George, French writer (1804-1876). "Lupo Liverani". Autograph manuscript.N. p., 1869.

    $19,528.00

  • [British Foreign Office]. Correspondence Respecting the Turco-Egyptian Frontier in the Sinai Peninsula.London, 1906.

    $705.00

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What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Waldstein, Johann Karl, Graf, österr.-böhmischer Adeliger (1707-1774). [Philosophia scholastico-ethica, fulgidissimis Habspurgico-Austriacorum …Prag, 1726.

    $304.00

  • [Mattioli, Pietro Andrea]. Original large-format woodblock of Aquilegia vulgaris (columbine).Prague, ca. 1562.

    $13,561.00

  • Lenin (Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov), revolutionary, Marxist thinker, founder of the Soviet Union (1870-1924). Autograph inscription signed, together with Leon Trotsky.No place or date, November 1917.

    $103,063.00

  • Nabokov, Vladimir. Lolita.Paris, August 1955.

    $4,882.00