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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

Corliss, George Henry, American engineer and inventor (1817-1888). Autograph letter signed."Evergreens", Newburyport, Mass., 11 Aug 1876.

Montalboddo, Fracanzano da. Itinerarium Portugallensium e Lusitania in Indiam et inde in occidentem …Milan, 1508.

[Mesopotamian clay tablet]. Mesopotamian cuneiform clay tablet.Mesopotamia, early 2nd millennium BCE.

Andalus, Abu-I-Hassan Ali ibn Abd-ar-Rahman al-Farazi al- (Ibn Hudayl) / Mercier, Louis (transl. and ed.). L’Ornement des âmes et la devise des habitants d’el Andalus.Paris, 1939.

What’s gone: some recent sales

Bombay Geographical Society. The Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society. From January 1868 …Bombay, 1874.

Keynes, John Maynard, British economist (1883-1946). Typed letter signed ("JMK").London, 28 Aug 1941.

Schönberg, Arnold, Austrian composer (1874-1951). Autograph letter signed and autogr. quotation signed.Los Angeles, 15 May 1949.

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 Unpublished manuscript journal of a British voyage to the Gulf, containing …Middle East, mainly Arabian Peninsula, Persia, Africa, and India, 1928-1931, with additional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

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Serving the great universities, museums, and national libraries worldwide

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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

Corliss, George Henry, American engineer and inventor (1817-1888). Autograph letter signed."Evergreens", Newburyport, Mass., 11 Aug 1876.

Montalboddo, Fracanzano da. Itinerarium Portugallensium e Lusitania in Indiam et inde in occidentem …Milan, 1508.

[Mesopotamian clay tablet]. Mesopotamian cuneiform clay tablet.Mesopotamia, early 2nd millennium BCE.

Andalus, Abu-I-Hassan Ali ibn Abd-ar-Rahman al-Farazi al- (Ibn Hudayl) / Mercier, Louis (transl. and ed.). L’Ornement des âmes et la devise des habitants d’el Andalus.Paris, 1939.

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What’s gone: some recent sales

Bombay Geographical Society. The Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society. From January 1868 …Bombay, 1874.

Keynes, John Maynard, British economist (1883-1946). Typed letter signed ("JMK").London, 28 Aug 1941.

Schönberg, Arnold, Austrian composer (1874-1951). Autograph letter signed and autogr. quotation signed.Los Angeles, 15 May 1949.

[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.