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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

  • Ratzinger, Joseph (Benedikt XVI.), Theologe und Papst (1927-2022). Gedr. Billett mit mehreren eigenh. Zeilen und U.Vatikan, 2002.

    $1,284.00

  • 'Abd al-Wahid al-Marrakushi / Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (ed.). (Kitab al-Mu'jib fi talkhis akhbar ahl al-Maghrib). The history of the …Leyden, 1847.

    $2,997.00

  • [Charlotte Amalie von Hessen-Barchfeld]. Trinks, Heinrich David, Thüringer Regierungs-Kanzlist (1731-1808). Tuschzeichnung mit eigenh. Widmungsgedicht zum 32. Geburtstag.Wohl Meiningen, 10 Aug 1762.

    $2,676.00

  • Al-Bakri, Abu Ubayd Abdallah ibn Abdalaziz / Slane, William MacGuckin (ed.). [Kitab al-Mughrib fi dhikr bilad Ifriqiyah wa-al-Maghrib. Wa-huwa juz min …Alger, 1857.

    $1,605.00

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What’s gone: some recent sales

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 Unpublished manuscript journal of a British voyage to the Gulf, containing …Middle East, mainly Arabian Peninsula, Persia, Africa, and India, 1928-1931, with additional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

    $155,183.00

  • [Saud ibn Abdulaziz Al Saud]. The picture story of a memorable visit to the United States by His Majesty …No place or publisher, 1957.

    $4,816.00

  • Nieuhof, Johannes. Die Gesantschaft der Ost-Indischen Geselschaft in den Vereinigten Niederländern, …Amsterdam, 1669.

    $90,969.00

  • [Zanzibar]. The Gazette for Zanzibar.Zanzibar, 1912-13, 1918 and 1920.

    $26,756.00