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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

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

    $135,844.00

  • [Mecca]. Piscator, Benedict A. (auct.) / Hermansson, Johannes (praes.). De Mecca, patria Muhammedis, schediasma.Uppsala, 1725.

    $5,434.00

  • Doyle, Arthur Conan, British writer and physician (1859-1930). "The Bully of Brocas Court". Autograph manuscript signed twice ("A. Conan …Windlesham, Crowborough, ca. 1920/1921.

    $81,506.00

  • [Oman]. Cole, C. S. D. An Account of an Overland Journey from Leskkairee to Meskat and the "Green …Bombay, 1849.

    $13,584.00

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What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Brentano, Franz, Philosoph und Psychologe (1838-1917). Eigenh. Brief mit U.Aschaffenburg, 6 Feb 1874.

    $489.00

  • Ali Riza Effendi, First Lieutenant in the Ottoman Army. Medine-i Münevvere Civarlarina Memuriyet Hatirasi [Memoirs of public service …Ottoman Empire, Syria and Hejaz, Sept./Oct. 1916 CE = Eylül 1332 Rumi Calendar.

    $16,301.00

  • Klimt, Gustav, painter (1862-1918). Portrait photograph inscribed and signed.Probably Vienna, no date.

    $130,410.00

  • Klimt, Gustav, Maler (1862-1918). Weiblicher Akt mit ausgestrecktem linkem Arm (Allegorie der Oper).Wien, 1883.

    $92,374.00