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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

  • [Napoleonica]. "Sammlung betr. Fourage-Lieferung in Leipzig 1806/1807". Forms issued by …Leipzig, 1806-1807.

    € 9,500.00

  • Santarem, Manuel Francisco de Barros e Sousa, Visconde de. Memorias para a historia, e theoria das Cortes Geraes, que em Portugal …Lisbon, 1827.

    € 1,500.00

  • Kafka, Franz, Schriftsteller (1883-1924). Briefkuvert mit eigenh. Adresse und Absender.Liboch, Datum des Poststempels unleserlich Anfang 1919.

    € 10,500.00

  • Beatson, Alexander. [Original watercolour painting of Tipu Sultan, mounted in:] A View of the …London, 1800.

    € 18,000.00

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What’s gone: some recent sales

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

    € 12,500.00

  • [Ludwig Salvator]. Cannosa.Prag, 1897.

    € 250.00

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 Unpublished manuscript journal of a British voyage to the Gulf, containing …Middle East, mainly Arabian Peninsula, Persia, Africa, and India, 1928-1931, with additional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

    € 145,000.00

  • Yuhanna (Yahya) Abu Zakariya ibn Masawaih (Mesue). De re medica, libri tres. Jacobo Sylvio medico interprete.Paris, 1544.

    € 28,000.00