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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

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

    $19,571.00

  • Marx, Karl / Engels, Friedrich. Forderungen der kommunistischen Parthei in Deutschland.Paris, end of March 1848.

    $195,706.00

  • Reymond, Claude-François de, French missionary in China and Vicar Apostolic of Sichuan (1720-1756). Autograph document signed. Co-signed by Pierre Lacerre, designated Vicar …N. p., 14 Feb 1756.

    $3,044.00

  • Maggio, Francesco Maria. Vita, e morte del venerabil P. F. Alipio di S. Giuseppe Scalzo di S. Agostino …Rome, 1657.

    $3,805.00

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What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Engels, Friedrich, political theorist (1820-1895). Autograph letter signed ("Frédéric Engels").London, 11 Mar 1873.

    $434,902.00

  • Tusi, Muhamad ibn Muhamad ibn al-Hasan al-. Kitab Uqlidis fi ilm al-handasa [An exposition on mathematics and geometry …Early Safavid Persia, first half of the 16th century.

    $48,926.00

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

    $3,805.00

  • Einstein, Albert, German physicist and Nobel laureate (1879-1955). Autograph manuscript for "Bivector Fields II" (1944).N. p. o. d.

    $48,926.00