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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

  • Gaubil, Antoine, Jesuit missionary, astronomer, and historian at the Imperial Court in Beijing (1689-1759). "Catalogue Chinois des Étoiles". Autograph manuscript.Beijing, 1734.

    $135,844.00

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

    $3,804.00

  • Strauss, Richard, Komponist (1864-1949). Portraitpostkarte mit eigenh. U.O. O. u. D.

    $1,304.00

  • [Ottoman military]. Asakir-i Mansûre-i Muhammediyye [The victorious soldiers of Muhammad].Istanbul, 1829/30 CE = 1245 H.

    $27,169.00

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What’s gone: some recent sales

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

    $271,687.00

  • Nabokov, Vladimir. Lolita.Paris, August 1955.

    $4,890.00

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 Unpublished manuscript journal of a British voyage to the Gulf, containing …Middle East, mainly Arabian Peninsula, Persia, Africa, and India, 1928-1931, with additional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

    $157,579.00

  • Megiser, Hieronymus. Institutionum linguae Turcicae, libri quatuor [...].Leipzig and Breslau, 1612.

    $63,031.00