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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

  • Beatles (The). Please Please Me. (Mono PMC 1202). Autographed album signed.London, Summer 1963.

    $59,700.00

  • Baydawi, Abu Muhammad bin 'Umar bin Muhammad bin 'Ali al. Anwar al-tanzil wa-asrar al-ta'wil [The Lights of Revelation and the Secrets …Central Asia, 1853/54 CE = 1270 H.

    $2,714.00

  • Palmerston (3rd Viscount), Henry John Temple, British Prime Minister (1784-1865). Letter signed.London, Foreign Office, 14 Aug 1838.

    $3,256.00

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

    $13,025.00

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What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Zweig, Stefan, Schriftsteller (1881-1942). "Der Fakir". Eigenh. Gedichtmanuskript mit U.O. O. u. D.

    $7,055.00

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 Unpublished manuscript journal of a British voyage to the Gulf, containing …Middle East, mainly Arabian Peninsula, Persia, Africa, and India, 1928-1931, with additional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

    $157,390.00

  • Nieuhof, Johannes. Die Gesantschaft der Ost-Indischen Geselschaft in den Vereinigten Niederländern, …Amsterdam, 1669.

    $92,263.00

  • Einstein, Albert, German physicist and Nobel laureate (1879-1955). Autograph manuscript for "Bivector Fields II" (1944).N. p. o. d.

    $48,845.00