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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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[Falconry - Sancho I of Mallorca]. Invoice document (albarán) for falconry expenses.No place, 1320.

[Albumen photograph collage]. Photograph album.Possibly Sweden, ca. 1870s.

Lafayette, Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de, French statesman and military officer (1757-1834), hero of the American Revolutionary War. Autograph letter signed.Lagrange?, 20 Dec 1811.

[Ottoman Atlas]. Manuscript map album of the Ottoman Empire.Ottoman Empire, ca. 1910.

What’s gone: some recent sales

[DNA structure]. Crick, Francis; Watson, James Dewey; and others. The milestone papers on the structure of DNA in "Nature", vols. 171 and …London, 1953.

Tusi, Muhamad ibn Muhamad ibn al-Hasan al-. Kitab Uqlidis fi ilm al-handasa [An exposition on mathematics and geometry …Early Safavid Persia, first half of the 16th century.

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 Unpublished manuscript journal of a British voyage to the Gulf, containing …Middle East, mainly Arabian Peninsula, Persia, Africa, and India, 1928-1931, with additional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

[Zanzibar]. The Gazette for Zanzibar.Zanzibar, 1912-13, 1918 and 1920.

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Serving the great universities, museums, and national libraries worldwide

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What’s new: recent acquisitions

[Falconry - Sancho I of Mallorca]. Invoice document (albarán) for falconry expenses.No place, 1320.

[Albumen photograph collage]. Photograph album.Possibly Sweden, ca. 1870s.

Lafayette, Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de, French statesman and military officer (1757-1834), hero of the American Revolutionary War. Autograph letter signed.Lagrange?, 20 Dec 1811.

[Ottoman Atlas]. Manuscript map album of the Ottoman Empire.Ottoman Empire, ca. 1910.

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Early printing to 1600

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What’s gone: some recent sales

[DNA structure]. Crick, Francis; Watson, James Dewey; and others. The milestone papers on the structure of DNA in "Nature", vols. 171 and …London, 1953.

Tusi, Muhamad ibn Muhamad ibn al-Hasan al-. Kitab Uqlidis fi ilm al-handasa [An exposition on mathematics and geometry …Early Safavid Persia, first half of the 16th century.

[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.

[Zanzibar]. The Gazette for Zanzibar.Zanzibar, 1912-13, 1918 and 1920.