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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

  • Marx, Karl. Das Kapital. Kritik der politischen Oekonomie [...] Erster Band. [Author's …Hamburg, 1867.

    $1,031,570.00

  • [Ge'ez]. Two Ge'ez healing scrolls.Ethiopia or Eritrea, 20th century.

    $869.00

  • Martin Heidegger, Philosoph (1889-1976). Eigenh. Briefkarte mit zweifacher U.Freiburg i. Br., 25 Feb 1973.

    $1,303.00

  • Santarem, Manuel Francisco de Barros e Sousa, Visconde de. Noticia dos manuscriptos pertencentes ao direito publico externo diplomatico …Lisbon, 1827.

    $2,715.00

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What’s gone: some recent sales

  • [Hinduism]. Sanskrit scroll.India, Rajasthan, 19th century.

    $3,801.00

  • Mao Zedong, Chinese statesman (1893-1976). Autograph album signed by Mao Zedong and Chou Enlai.Beijing, 8 Jan 1963.

    $271,466.00

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

    $48,864.00

  • [Palestine]. Album fotografico delle principali vedute della Palestina con apposite …Turin, 1870s, at least before 1878.

    $9,230.00