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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

[Nightingale, Florence, British social reformer (1820-1910)]. Carte-de-visite photograph of the English social reformer, statistician …No place or date.

Gregor von Nazianz. [Opera]. Accurantibus D. A. B. Caillau [...] Tomus primus (-quartus).Paris, 1835-1840.

Carlson, Evans, American Navy military observer in China (1896-1947). Typed letter signed.Hankou, 27 Aug 1938.

Nota, Alberto. Commedie edite ed inedite [...]. Edizione duodecima. Tomo primo (-VII).Mailand, 1828-1829.

What’s gone: some recent sales

Celan, Paul, German-language poet (1920-1970). Todesfuge. Typescript signed ("Paul Celan").Probably Bucharest, c. 1946?.

Géricault, Théodore. Five complete series by the greatest horse painter of 19th century, including …Paris, 1822-1823.

[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 Unpublished manuscript journal of a British voyage to the Gulf, containing …Middle East, mainly Arabian Peninsula, Persia, Africa, and India, 1928-1931, with additional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.

Sun Yat-sen, Chinese revolutionary, first president and founding father of the Republic of China (1866-1925). Autograph letter signed ("Y-S Sun").Canton Guangzhou, 29 Nov 1921.

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Serving the great universities, museums, and national libraries worldwide

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Unconditional guarantee of authenticity

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Exhibiting at fairs internationally

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What’s new: recent acquisitions

[Nightingale, Florence, British social reformer (1820-1910)]. Carte-de-visite photograph of the English social reformer, statistician …No place or date.

Gregor von Nazianz. [Opera]. Accurantibus D. A. B. Caillau [...] Tomus primus (-quartus).Paris, 1835-1840.

Carlson, Evans, American Navy military observer in China (1896-1947). Typed letter signed.Hankou, 27 Aug 1938.

Nota, Alberto. Commedie edite ed inedite [...]. Edizione duodecima. Tomo primo (-VII).Mailand, 1828-1829.

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What’s gone: some recent sales

Celan, Paul, German-language poet (1920-1970). Todesfuge. Typescript signed ("Paul Celan").Probably Bucharest, c. 1946?.

Géricault, Théodore. Five complete series by the greatest horse painter of 19th century, including …Paris, 1822-1823.

[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.

Sun Yat-sen, Chinese revolutionary, first president and founding father of the Republic of China (1866-1925). Autograph letter signed ("Y-S Sun").Canton Guangzhou, 29 Nov 1921.