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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

Kipling, Rudyard, English novelist and short story writer (1865-1936). Eight autograph and typed letters, signed.Various, 3 October 1918 - 23 June 1935.

[Lazzat Un Nisa]. Laddhat un-nisa [The Pleasure of Women].Northern India, ca. 1820s / early 19th century.

Herzmanovsky-Orlando, Fritz, Schriftsteller und Zeichner (1877-1954). Eigenh. Notiz.O. O., um 1950.

[Abu Dhabi]. Complete set of 6 Aerial Surveying Photographs (nos. 1-6). Abu Dhabi Sadiyat.Abu Dhabi and London, 1976.

What’s gone: some recent sales

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, Dichter (1749-1832). Autographa.Weimar, Dezember 1811.

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 Unpublished manuscript journal of a British voyage to the Gulf, containing …Middle East, mainly Arabian Peninsula, Persia, Africa, and India, 1928-1931, with additional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

[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.

Mao Zedong, Chinese statesman (1893-1976). Autograph inscription signed in: Mao Zedong, "Hsin min-chu-chu-i lun" ("On …No place, 1942.

Free shipping worldwide extended to all registered customers

Serving the great universities, museums, and national libraries worldwide

Gift Ideas

Unconditional guarantee of authenticity

All shipments fully insured and trackable door-to-door

Exhibiting at fairs internationally

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What’s new: recent acquisitions

Kipling, Rudyard, English novelist and short story writer (1865-1936). Eight autograph and typed letters, signed.Various, 3 October 1918 - 23 June 1935.

[Lazzat Un Nisa]. Laddhat un-nisa [The Pleasure of Women].Northern India, ca. 1820s / early 19th century.

Herzmanovsky-Orlando, Fritz, Schriftsteller und Zeichner (1877-1954). Eigenh. Notiz.O. O., um 1950.

[Abu Dhabi]. Complete set of 6 Aerial Surveying Photographs (nos. 1-6). Abu Dhabi Sadiyat.Abu Dhabi and London, 1976.

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What’s gone: some recent sales

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, Dichter (1749-1832). Autographa.Weimar, Dezember 1811.

[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.

[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.

Mao Zedong, Chinese statesman (1893-1976). Autograph inscription signed in: Mao Zedong, "Hsin min-chu-chu-i lun" ("On …No place, 1942.