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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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Gaubil, Antoine, Jesuit missionary, astronomer, and historian at the Imperial Court in Beijing (1689-1759). "Catalogue Chinois des Étoiles". Autograph manuscript.Beijing, 1734.

Owen, Charles Henry. Sketches in the Crimea, Taken During the Late War.London, 1856.

Laube, Heinrich, Schriftsteller und Theaterdirektor (1806-1884). Eigenh. Brief mit U. und eh. Albumblatt mit U.Leipzig, 21. XI. 1843 und 15. II. 1875.

Faris al-Shidyaq, Ahmad (1804-1887, compiler and scribe) / Ibn Durayd al-Azdi, Muhammad ibn al-Hasan / Al-Zamakhshari, Abu al-Qasim Mahmud ibn Umar. Sharh al-Maqsurah al-Duraydiyah [Commentary on Ibn Durayd's Book of the …Ottoman Egypt, 1833/34 CE = 1249 H.

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Ptolemaeus, Claudius [translated by Angelus, Jacobus, edited by Germanus, Nicolaus]. [Russia, Black Sea] Octava Europe tabula.Ulm, 16 Jul 1482.

[Maurer- und Steinmetzbuch des Bezirks Neusiedl am See]. Register Eines Ehrsammen Handt-Werchs der Steinmetzen und Maurer, im Königlichen …Neusiedl, 1679-1831.

Vitruvius Pollio, Marcus. [De architectura libri decem].Venice, 22 May 1511.

Nabokov, Vladimir. Lolita.Paris, August 1955.

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Serving the great universities, museums, and national libraries worldwide

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What’s new: recent acquisitions

Gaubil, Antoine, Jesuit missionary, astronomer, and historian at the Imperial Court in Beijing (1689-1759). "Catalogue Chinois des Étoiles". Autograph manuscript.Beijing, 1734.

Owen, Charles Henry. Sketches in the Crimea, Taken During the Late War.London, 1856.

Laube, Heinrich, Schriftsteller und Theaterdirektor (1806-1884). Eigenh. Brief mit U. und eh. Albumblatt mit U.Leipzig, 21. XI. 1843 und 15. II. 1875.

Faris al-Shidyaq, Ahmad (1804-1887, compiler and scribe) / Ibn Durayd al-Azdi, Muhammad ibn al-Hasan / Al-Zamakhshari, Abu al-Qasim Mahmud ibn Umar. Sharh al-Maqsurah al-Duraydiyah [Commentary on Ibn Durayd's Book of the …Ottoman Egypt, 1833/34 CE = 1249 H.

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Ptolemaeus, Claudius [translated by Angelus, Jacobus, edited by Germanus, Nicolaus]. [Russia, Black Sea] Octava Europe tabula.Ulm, 16 Jul 1482.

[Maurer- und Steinmetzbuch des Bezirks Neusiedl am See]. Register Eines Ehrsammen Handt-Werchs der Steinmetzen und Maurer, im Königlichen …Neusiedl, 1679-1831.

Vitruvius Pollio, Marcus. [De architectura libri decem].Venice, 22 May 1511.

Nabokov, Vladimir. Lolita.Paris, August 1955.