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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

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

    $3,747.00

  • (Dawani, Jalal al-Din al- / Iji, 'Adudaddin ibn Ahmad al-). Hawashi Sharh al-'Aqa'id al-Adudiyya. [Notes on the commentary on the creed …Ottoman Empire, after 1656 CE.

    $8,029.00

  • Sou, Paul, Chinese Lazarist missionary (ca. 1692-1770). Autograph document signed. Co-signed by the Bishop of Macau, Bartholomeu …Hia-su-hiang, 28 Aug 1744.

    $4,817.00

  • Boccaccio, Giovanni. Il Filocopo […] Di nuovo riveduto, corretto, & alla sua vera lettione …Venice, 1554.

    $2,409.00

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What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Malpiere, D. Bazin de. La Chine, moeurs, usages, costumes, arts et métiers, peines civiles et …Paris, 1825-1827.

    $48,172.00

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 Unpublished manuscript journal of a British voyage to the Gulf, containing …Middle East, mainly Arabian Peninsula, Persia, Africa, and India, 1928-1931, with additional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

    $155,220.00

  • Kafka, Franz, Schriftsteller (1883-1924). Eigenh. Postkarte mit U. ("K").Prag, 23. II. 1922.

    $40,678.00

  • Schiele, Egon, Maler (1890-1918). Eigenh. Bildpostkarte mit U.Kovácspatak bei Budapest, 29 Jul 1918.

    $12,846.00