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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

Vega, Georg Baron, mathematician and officer (1754-1802). Document signed.Vienna, 5 Feb 1789.

Miller, M[oritz] von. Vorlesungen über angewandte Taktik zum Unterrichte und zum Selbststudium …Freiburg/Breisgau, 1833.

Doyle, Arthur Conan, British writer and physician (1859-1930). "The Bully of Brocas Court". Autograph manuscript signed twice ("A. Conan …Windlesham, Crowborough, ca. 1920/1921.

Ghaffar, Al-Sayyid Abd al-. [Praying around the Kaaba].Mecca, ca. 1887.

What’s gone: some recent sales

Vitruvius Pollio, Marcus. [De architectura libri decem].Venice, 22 May 1511.

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 Unpublished manuscript journal of a British voyage to the Gulf, containing …Middle East, mainly Arabian Peninsula, Persia, Africa, and India, 1928-1931, with additional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

Montaigne, Michel de. Essais de Messire Michel Seigneur de Montaigne, Chevalier de l'Ordre du …Bordeaux, 1580.

[La Pira, Gioacchino, Italian painter (active 1839-1870) - attrib.]. A group of ten masterly gouaches of Naples and surroundings from the collection …Naples, ca. 1855-1866.

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Serving the great universities, museums, and national libraries worldwide

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Exhibiting at fairs internationally

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What’s new: recent acquisitions

Vega, Georg Baron, mathematician and officer (1754-1802). Document signed.Vienna, 5 Feb 1789.

Miller, M[oritz] von. Vorlesungen über angewandte Taktik zum Unterrichte und zum Selbststudium …Freiburg/Breisgau, 1833.

Doyle, Arthur Conan, British writer and physician (1859-1930). "The Bully of Brocas Court". Autograph manuscript signed twice ("A. Conan …Windlesham, Crowborough, ca. 1920/1921.

Ghaffar, Al-Sayyid Abd al-. [Praying around the Kaaba].Mecca, ca. 1887.

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What’s gone: some recent sales

Vitruvius Pollio, Marcus. [De architectura libri decem].Venice, 22 May 1511.

[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.

Montaigne, Michel de. Essais de Messire Michel Seigneur de Montaigne, Chevalier de l'Ordre du …Bordeaux, 1580.

[La Pira, Gioacchino, Italian painter (active 1839-1870) - attrib.]. A group of ten masterly gouaches of Naples and surroundings from the collection …Naples, ca. 1855-1866.