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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

  • Herzog, Maurice, French mountaineer (1919-2012). Typed letter signed.Paris, 19 Jun 1959.

    $375.00

  • [Ge'ez]. [Ge'ez healing scroll].Ethiopia or Eritrea, 19th century.

    $1,606.00

  • Hillary, Sir Edmund, New Zealand mountaineer (1919-2008). Typed letter signed ("E. P. Hillary").Auckland, New Zealand, 19 Jul 1959.

    $910.00

  • Sauvaire, H[enry] / J. de Rey-Pailhade. Sur une mère d'astrolabe Arabe du XIIIe siècle (609 de l'Hégire) portant …Paris, 1893.

    $482.00

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What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Aldini, Giovanni. Essai théoretique et expérimental sur le galvanisme, avec une série …Paris, 1804.

    $10,170.00

  • Schubert, Franz, composer (1797-1828). [Variations on a French Song, op. 10, D. 624 (fragment)]. Autograph musical …Vienna, September 1818.

    $101,696.00

  • Nabokov, Vladimir. Lolita.Paris, August 1955.

    $4,817.00

  • Luther, Martin, Theologe und Reformator (1483-1546). Eigenh. Brief mit U. ("Martinus").Veste Coburg, "feria quinta post Equinoctium autumni" = 15. IX. 1530.

    $374,668.00