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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

Gil de Frederich y Sans, Francesco, Saint, Spanish Dominican missionary in Vietnam (1702-1745). Document with 5 autograph lines signed.Tonkin Hanoi, 5 Jul 1744.

Watson, James D., American Nobel laureate, molecular biologist, and geneticist (b. 1928). Genes, Girls and Gamow.Oxford, 2001.

Lafayette, Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de, French statesman and military officer (1757-1834), hero of the American Revolutionary War. Autograph letter signed.Sarreguemines Saargemünd, 13 Jul 1785.

Soliman, Mahmoud Soliman. Second Arab Mineral Wealth Congress 2nd to 8th November 1974 Jiddah Kingdom …Qatar, November 1974.

What’s gone: some recent sales

Ptolemaeus, Claudius [translated by Angelus, Jacobus, edited by Germanus, Nicolaus]. [Russia, Black Sea] Octava Europe tabula.Ulm, 16 Jul 1482.

Chimani, Leopold. Bunte Scenerien aus dem Menschenleben. Ein Bilderbuch ganz neuer Art.Wien, 1836.

[Zanzibar]. The Gazette for Zanzibar.Zanzibar, 1912-13, 1918 and 1920.

Klimt, Gustav, painter (1862-1918). Portrait photograph inscribed and signed.Probably Vienna, no date.

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Serving the great universities, museums, and national libraries worldwide

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All shipments fully insured and trackable door-to-door

Exhibiting at fairs internationally

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What’s new: recent acquisitions

Gil de Frederich y Sans, Francesco, Saint, Spanish Dominican missionary in Vietnam (1702-1745). Document with 5 autograph lines signed.Tonkin Hanoi, 5 Jul 1744.

Watson, James D., American Nobel laureate, molecular biologist, and geneticist (b. 1928). Genes, Girls and Gamow.Oxford, 2001.

Lafayette, Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de, French statesman and military officer (1757-1834), hero of the American Revolutionary War. Autograph letter signed.Sarreguemines Saargemünd, 13 Jul 1785.

Soliman, Mahmoud Soliman. Second Arab Mineral Wealth Congress 2nd to 8th November 1974 Jiddah Kingdom …Qatar, November 1974.

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What’s gone: some recent sales

Ptolemaeus, Claudius [translated by Angelus, Jacobus, edited by Germanus, Nicolaus]. [Russia, Black Sea] Octava Europe tabula.Ulm, 16 Jul 1482.

Chimani, Leopold. Bunte Scenerien aus dem Menschenleben. Ein Bilderbuch ganz neuer Art.Wien, 1836.

[Zanzibar]. The Gazette for Zanzibar.Zanzibar, 1912-13, 1918 and 1920.

Klimt, Gustav, painter (1862-1918). Portrait photograph inscribed and signed.Probably Vienna, no date.