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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

Sand, George, French writer (1804-1876). "Lupo Liverani". Autograph manuscript.N. p., 1869.

[Quadrant]. Paper-covered wood showing coloured scales.Ottoman Empire, 19th century.

[Trucial States - Sultan bin Saqr Al Qasimi]. Two early documents.Sharjah and Ras Al-Khaimah, 1943 and 1966.

Prisse d'Avennes, Achille Constant Théodore Émile. Oriental Album. Characters, Costumes, and Modes of life, in the valley …London, 1848.

What’s gone: some recent sales

[Portuguese Mission in Asia]. Compendio historico dos seminarios da India, e Makao, regidos pelos padres …No place, 1800-1805.

Waldstein, Johann Karl, Graf, österr.-böhmischer Adeliger (1707-1774). [Philosophia scholastico-ethica, fulgidissimis Habspurgico-Austriacorum …Prag, 1726.

[DNA structure]. Crick, Francis; Watson, James Dewey; and others. The milestone papers on the structure of DNA in "Nature", vols. 171 and …London, 1953.

[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.

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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

Sand, George, French writer (1804-1876). "Lupo Liverani". Autograph manuscript.N. p., 1869.

[Quadrant]. Paper-covered wood showing coloured scales.Ottoman Empire, 19th century.

[Trucial States - Sultan bin Saqr Al Qasimi]. Two early documents.Sharjah and Ras Al-Khaimah, 1943 and 1966.

Prisse d'Avennes, Achille Constant Théodore Émile. Oriental Album. Characters, Costumes, and Modes of life, in the valley …London, 1848.

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[Portuguese Mission in Asia]. Compendio historico dos seminarios da India, e Makao, regidos pelos padres …No place, 1800-1805.

Waldstein, Johann Karl, Graf, österr.-böhmischer Adeliger (1707-1774). [Philosophia scholastico-ethica, fulgidissimis Habspurgico-Austriacorum …Prag, 1726.

[DNA structure]. Crick, Francis; Watson, James Dewey; and others. The milestone papers on the structure of DNA in "Nature", vols. 171 and …London, 1953.

[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.