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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

  • Kokoschka, Oskar, Maler, Graphiker und Schriftsteller (1886-1980). 5 eigenh. Briefe mit U. und 2 eh. Bildpostkarten mit U.London, Wigtownshire, Minneapolis und Villeneuve, 1941 bis 1957.

    € 18,000.00

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

    € 1,500.00

  • Kollwitz, Käthe, Grafikerin, Malerin und Bildhauerin (1867-1945). 1 eigenh. Brief mit U. und 4 eh. Postkarten mit U.Berlin, 1925-1929.

    € 4,500.00

  • [Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani, Emir of Qatar (1932-2016)]. 5 original photographs.Qatar, ca. 1980s.

    € 450.00

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What’s gone: some recent sales

  • [Regulations for pearl fishing in Kuwait]. Qanun al-ghawasin fi'l Kuwayt ("Manual of the [pearl] divers in Kuwait").Kuwait City, 1359 H / AD 1940.

    € 8,500.00

  • Zweig, Stefan. Die frühen Kränze.Leipzig, 1906.

    € 1,800.00

  • Katib Chelebi (Haji Khalifa/Mustafa ibn Abdallah). Kitab-i Cihânnümâ. [Jihan-numa, The mirror of the world].Constantinople, 3 July 1732.

    € 150,000.00

  • Engels, Friedrich, political theorist (1820-1895). Autograph letter signed ("Frédéric Engels").London, 11 Mar 1873.

    € 400,000.00