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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

Waroquier, Henry de, French painter (1881-1970). Autograph letter signed.Paris, 5 Dec 1956.

Marx, Karl / Engels, Friedrich. Das kommunistische Manifest. Neue Ausgabe mit einem Vorwort der Verfasser.Leipzig, 1872.

Burton, Richard Francis, English explorer and diplomat (1821-1890). 10 autograph letters signed and one autograph postcard signed ("R.F. Burton", …London, Trieste and Geneva, 27 May 1882 to 12 May 1884, 8 November 1888, and no date.

[Arabian Gulf]. Pelly, Lewis, et al. The Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society. From January 1863 …Bombay, 1865.

What’s gone: some recent sales

Einstein, Albert, German physicist and Nobel laureate (1879-1955). Autograph manuscript for "Bivector Fields II" (1944).N. p. o. d.

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 Unpublished manuscript journal of a British voyage to the Gulf, containing …Middle East, mainly Arabian Peninsula, Persia, Africa, and India, 1928-1931, with additional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

Petrini, Paolo. [Wall Maps of the World and Four Continents].Naples, ca. 1700.

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

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Serving the great universities, museums, and national libraries worldwide

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Exhibiting at fairs internationally

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What’s new: recent acquisitions

Waroquier, Henry de, French painter (1881-1970). Autograph letter signed.Paris, 5 Dec 1956.

Marx, Karl / Engels, Friedrich. Das kommunistische Manifest. Neue Ausgabe mit einem Vorwort der Verfasser.Leipzig, 1872.

Burton, Richard Francis, English explorer and diplomat (1821-1890). 10 autograph letters signed and one autograph postcard signed ("R.F. Burton", …London, Trieste and Geneva, 27 May 1882 to 12 May 1884, 8 November 1888, and no date.

[Arabian Gulf]. Pelly, Lewis, et al. The Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society. From January 1863 …Bombay, 1865.

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What’s gone: some recent sales

Einstein, Albert, German physicist and Nobel laureate (1879-1955). Autograph manuscript for "Bivector Fields II" (1944).N. p. o. d.

[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.

Petrini, Paolo. [Wall Maps of the World and Four Continents].Naples, ca. 1700.

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