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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

  • Hemingway, Ernest, American writer and Nobel Laureate (1899-1961). Autograph letter signed.Paris, 6 November 1933.

    $16,309.00

  • Zarqali, Abu Ishaq Ibrahim al- / Bianchini, Giovanni (ed.). Tabulae de motibus planetarum.Ferrara, ca. 1475.

    $304,432.00

  • Shackleton, Sir Ernest Henry, Polar explorer (1874-1922). Album leaf signed.No place, 22 Jul 1921.

    $1,359.00

  • [Ethiopian Divinatory Text]. Awda Nagast [The Circle of the King].Ethiopia, late 18th or early 19th century CE.

    $10,329.00

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What’s gone: some recent sales

  • [La Pira, Gioacchino, Italian painter (active 1839-1870) - attrib.]. A group of nineteen masterly gouaches of Naples and surroundings from the …Naples, ca. 1855-1866.

    $217,451.00

  • [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.

    $135,907.00

  • Vesalius, Andreas. De humani corporis fabrica libri septem.Basel, June 1543.

    $380,539.00

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

    $13,591.00