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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

Freud, Lucian, British painter and draughtsman (1922-2011). Autograph letter signed.4 Delamere Terrace, London, ca. 1960.

Marx, Karl / Engels, Friedrich. Das kommunistische Manifest. Neue Ausgabe mit einem Vorwort der Verfasser.Leipzig, 1872.

Heyse, Paul, Schriftsteller (1830-1914). Portraitpostkarte mit eigenh. U.München, 1. III. 1910.

[Qur'an]. An Ottoman Qur'an manuscript.Ottoman Turkey, 18th century CE.

What’s gone: some recent sales

[Dalrymple, Alexander (ed.)]. Pinnel, Richard. Journal of the Jane […] from Banjar to Timor and back again to Banjar, …London, 1781.

[Maurer- und Steinmetzbuch des Bezirks Neusiedl am See]. Register Eines Ehrsammen Handt-Werchs der Steinmetzen und Maurer, im Königlichen …Neusiedl, 1679-1831.

Rilke, Rainer Maria, Dichter (1875-1926). Eigenh. Gedicht mit Widmung und U. in: Ders., Neue Gedichte.Leipzig, 1914.

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 Unpublished manuscript journal of a British voyage to the Gulf, containing …Middle East, mainly Arabian Peninsula, Persia, Africa, and India, 1928-1931, with additional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

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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

Freud, Lucian, British painter and draughtsman (1922-2011). Autograph letter signed.4 Delamere Terrace, London, ca. 1960.

Marx, Karl / Engels, Friedrich. Das kommunistische Manifest. Neue Ausgabe mit einem Vorwort der Verfasser.Leipzig, 1872.

Heyse, Paul, Schriftsteller (1830-1914). Portraitpostkarte mit eigenh. U.München, 1. III. 1910.

[Qur'an]. An Ottoman Qur'an manuscript.Ottoman Turkey, 18th century CE.

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What’s gone: some recent sales

[Dalrymple, Alexander (ed.)]. Pinnel, Richard. Journal of the Jane […] from Banjar to Timor and back again to Banjar, …London, 1781.

[Maurer- und Steinmetzbuch des Bezirks Neusiedl am See]. Register Eines Ehrsammen Handt-Werchs der Steinmetzen und Maurer, im Königlichen …Neusiedl, 1679-1831.

Rilke, Rainer Maria, Dichter (1875-1926). Eigenh. Gedicht mit Widmung und U. in: Ders., Neue Gedichte.Leipzig, 1914.

[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.