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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.

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What’s new: recent acquisitions

Freud, Lucian, British painter and draughtsman (1922-2011). Autograph letter signed.4 Delamere Terrace, London, ca. 1960.

[Farasnama]. Farasnama [The Coloured Book of Horses]. Hippiatric manuscript.India, ca. 1800 CE.

Goebbels, Joseph, German politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany (1897-1945). "O du mein Deutschland". Autograph poem manuscript.No place, ca. 1916/19.

Tucholsky, Kurt, German writer (1890-1935). Fromme Gesänge von Theobald Tiger. Mit einer Vorrede von Ignaz Wrobel.Berlin-Charlottenburg, 1919.

What’s gone: some recent sales

[Logbook of HMS Effingham in the Gulf]. Larken, Francis Wyatt Rawson, Royal Navy officer (1911-1985). Unpublished manuscript journal of a British voyage to the Gulf, containing …Middle East, mainly Arabian Peninsula, Persia, Africa, and India, 1928-1931, with additional material to 1951.

Kauffmann, Angelika, painter (1741-1807). Autograph letter signed.Rome, 18 Nov 1792.

[Qur'an Juz' - China]. An illuminated Qur'an, Juz' XX, written in Beijing by a Muslim woman.Khanbaliq Cambaluc, Beijing, 10 Nov. 1623 CE = 17 Muharram 1033 H.

Vitruvius Pollio, Marcus. [De architectura libri decem].Venice, 22 May 1511.

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Serving the great universities, museums, and national libraries worldwide

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What’s new: recent acquisitions

Freud, Lucian, British painter and draughtsman (1922-2011). Autograph letter signed.4 Delamere Terrace, London, ca. 1960.

[Farasnama]. Farasnama [The Coloured Book of Horses]. Hippiatric manuscript.India, ca. 1800 CE.

Goebbels, Joseph, German politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany (1897-1945). "O du mein Deutschland". Autograph poem manuscript.No place, ca. 1916/19.

Tucholsky, Kurt, German writer (1890-1935). Fromme Gesänge von Theobald Tiger. Mit einer Vorrede von Ignaz Wrobel.Berlin-Charlottenburg, 1919.

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What’s gone: some recent sales

[Logbook of HMS Effingham in the Gulf]. Larken, Francis Wyatt Rawson, Royal Navy officer (1911-1985). Unpublished manuscript journal of a British voyage to the Gulf, containing …Middle East, mainly Arabian Peninsula, Persia, Africa, and India, 1928-1931, with additional material to 1951.

Kauffmann, Angelika, painter (1741-1807). Autograph letter signed.Rome, 18 Nov 1792.

[Qur'an Juz' - China]. An illuminated Qur'an, Juz' XX, written in Beijing by a Muslim woman.Khanbaliq Cambaluc, Beijing, 10 Nov. 1623 CE = 17 Muharram 1033 H.

Vitruvius Pollio, Marcus. [De architectura libri decem].Venice, 22 May 1511.