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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

  • Pedrini, Teodorico, Italian missionary, musician, and composer at the Imperial Court in Beijing (1671-1746). Autograph document signed. Co-signed by the bishop of Beijing, Polycarpo …Beijing, 1642-1646.

    $3,260.00

  • Watson, James D., American Nobel laureate, molecular biologist, and geneticist (b. 1928). Genes, Girls and Gamow.Oxford, 2001.

    $869.00

  • Lennon, John, English singer, songwriter and musician (1940-1980). Autograph drawing signed.No place, 1977?.

    $13,584.00

  • Lees, G[eorge] M[artin]. Persia.Oxford, 1953.

    $380.00

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What’s gone: some recent sales

  • (Harsdörffer, Georg Philipp). Vollständig vermehrtes Trincir-Buch, Handlend: I. Von den Tafeldecken, …Nuremberg, 1654.

    $4,890.00

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 Unpublished manuscript journal of a British voyage to the Gulf, containing …Middle East, mainly Arabian Peninsula, Persia, Africa, and India, 1928-1931, with additional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

    $157,579.00

  • Schönberg, Arnold, Austrian composer (1874-1951). Autograph letter signed and autogr. quotation signed.Los Angeles, 15 May 1949.

    $3,043.00

  • Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de, French painter and illustrator (1864-1901). Autograph letter monogrammed "HTL".Paris, ca. 1884/1885.

    $4,890.00