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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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What’s new: recent acquisitions

[Nightingale, Florence, British social reformer (1820-1910)]. Carte-de-visite photograph of the English social reformer, statistician …No place or date.

[Ge'ez]. Two Ge'ez healing scrolls.Ethiopia or Eritrea, 20th century.

Beethoven, Ludwig van, composer (1770-1827). Autograph sketchleaf for op. 117, "König Stephan" ("Ungarns erster Wohltäter").Teplitz, 1811.

Mansur ibn Ilyas. Tashrih-i Mansuri [Mansur's Anatomy].Persia, 19th century.

What’s gone: some recent sales

Nabokov, Vladimir. Lolita.Paris, August 1955.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, Austrian philosopher (1889-1951). Autograph picture postcard signed.Cambridge, 28. II. 1929.

Waldemar, Prince of Prussia. Zur Erinnerung an die Reise des Prinzen Waldemar von Preussen nach Indien …Berlin, 1853.

Lenin (Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov), revolutionary, Marxist thinker, founder of the Soviet Union (1870-1924). Autograph inscription signed, together with Leon Trotsky.No place or date, November 1917.

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Serving the great universities, museums, and national libraries worldwide

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All shipments fully insured and trackable door-to-door

Exhibiting at fairs internationally

An international team of experts to answer your questions

What’s new: recent acquisitions

[Nightingale, Florence, British social reformer (1820-1910)]. Carte-de-visite photograph of the English social reformer, statistician …No place or date.

[Ge'ez]. Two Ge'ez healing scrolls.Ethiopia or Eritrea, 20th century.

Beethoven, Ludwig van, composer (1770-1827). Autograph sketchleaf for op. 117, "König Stephan" ("Ungarns erster Wohltäter").Teplitz, 1811.

Mansur ibn Ilyas. Tashrih-i Mansuri [Mansur's Anatomy].Persia, 19th century.

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What’s gone: some recent sales

Nabokov, Vladimir. Lolita.Paris, August 1955.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, Austrian philosopher (1889-1951). Autograph picture postcard signed.Cambridge, 28. II. 1929.

Waldemar, Prince of Prussia. Zur Erinnerung an die Reise des Prinzen Waldemar von Preussen nach Indien …Berlin, 1853.

Lenin (Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov), revolutionary, Marxist thinker, founder of the Soviet Union (1870-1924). Autograph inscription signed, together with Leon Trotsky.No place or date, November 1917.