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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

  • [Korngold, Erich Wolfgang]. Korngold, Julius. Child Prodigy.New York, 1945.

    $2,679.00

  • [Ge'ez]. [Ge'ez healing scroll].Ethiopia or Eritrea, 19th century.

    $1,608.00

  • Darwin, Charles, English naturalist (1809-1882). Autograph letter signed.Down, Beckenham, Kent, 13 Jan 1881.

    $48,229.00

  • Ottoman manuscript. [Book on Astrology and Zodiac Signs].No place, early 19th century.

    $3,751.00

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 Unpublished manuscript journal of a British voyage to the Gulf, containing …Middle East, mainly Arabian Peninsula, Persia, Africa, and India, 1928-1931, with additional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

    $155,404.00

  • [U.S. Air Force / NASA]. Lunar Astronautical Charts.St. Louis, Missouri, 1962-1967.

    $16,076.00

  • Wagner, Richard, Komponist (1813-1883). Portraitphotographie mit eigenh. Widmung als vollständiges Notenmanuskript …Wien, 1861.

    $32,153.00

  • [Hinduism]. Sanskrit scroll.India, Rajasthan, 19th century.

    $3,751.00