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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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Pauli, Wolfgang, Austrian-born, Swiss theoretical physicist; winner of the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physics. 2 autograph postcards signed ("Pauli").Goettingen, 15 and 17 Dec. 1921.

[Indian Care of Horses]. Shalihotra Samhita [Encyclopedia of the physician Shalihotra].Rajasthan, Northwest India, 19th century.

Virchow, Rudolf, Mediziner, Begründer der Pathologie (1821-1902). Eigenh. Postkarte mit unklarer U.Berlin, 30 May 1877.

[Ottoman military]. Asakir-i Mansûre-i Muhammediyye [The victorious soldiers of Muhammad].Istanbul, 1829/30 CE = 1245 H.

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 Unpublished manuscript journal of a British voyage to the Gulf, containing …Middle East, mainly Arabian Peninsula, Persia, Africa, and India, 1928-1931, with additional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

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

Mann, Thomas, German writer and Nobel laureate (1875-1955). Typed letter signed.Zürich, 16 Jun 1949.

Einstein, Albert, German physicist and Nobel laureate (1879-1955). Autograph manuscript for "Bivector Fields II" (1944).N. p. o. d.

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Serving the great universities, museums, and national libraries worldwide

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What’s new: recent acquisitions

Pauli, Wolfgang, Austrian-born, Swiss theoretical physicist; winner of the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physics. 2 autograph postcards signed ("Pauli").Goettingen, 15 and 17 Dec. 1921.

[Indian Care of Horses]. Shalihotra Samhita [Encyclopedia of the physician Shalihotra].Rajasthan, Northwest India, 19th century.

Virchow, Rudolf, Mediziner, Begründer der Pathologie (1821-1902). Eigenh. Postkarte mit unklarer U.Berlin, 30 May 1877.

[Ottoman military]. Asakir-i Mansûre-i Muhammediyye [The victorious soldiers of Muhammad].Istanbul, 1829/30 CE = 1245 H.

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[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.

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

Mann, Thomas, German writer and Nobel laureate (1875-1955). Typed letter signed.Zürich, 16 Jun 1949.

Einstein, Albert, German physicist and Nobel laureate (1879-1955). Autograph manuscript for "Bivector Fields II" (1944).N. p. o. d.