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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

  • Bartholdi, Frédéric-Auguste, sculptor (1834-1904). Print with autograph signature.Paris, no date.

    $1,956.00

  • Freud, Sigmund. Das Unbehagen in der Kultur.Vienna, 1930.

    $27,169.00

  • Ateeqi, Abdul Rahman Salim Al-, Kuwaiti politician and statesman (1928-2020). Typed letter signed.Kuwait, 12 May 1974.

    $924.00

  • [Waqidi, Abu Abd Allah al-]. Futuh Ifriqiya [The Conquest of Ifriqiya].Sub-Saharan Africa or Sudan, 16 January 1898 CE = 22 Sha'ban 1315 H.

    $2,717.00

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 Unpublished manuscript journal of a British voyage to the Gulf, containing …Middle East, mainly Arabian Peninsula, Persia, Africa, and India, 1928-1931, with additional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

    $157,579.00

  • Friedell, Egon, Schriftsteller (1878-1938). Eigenh. Brief mit U.Wien, 20. IX. 1922.

    $1,032.00

  • Nabokov, Vladimir. Lolita.Paris, August 1955.

    $4,890.00

  • Lafosse, Georges. Les Musulmans dans le monde.Paris, ca. 1952.

    $3,804.00