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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

  • Lefebvre, Urbain, French missionary in China and Blessed Martyr of the Carmes (1725-1792). Autograph document signed.Macau, 8 Sep 1750.

    $3,803.00

  • Fiammelli, Giovanni Francesco. Il principe difeso [...]. Nel quale si tratta di fortificazione, oppugnazione, …Rome, 1604.

    $2,717.00

  • Shackleton, Sir Ernest Henry, Polar explorer (1874-1922). Album leaf signed.No place, 22 Jul 1921.

    $1,358.00

  • Soliman, Mahmoud Soliman. First Congress of Iron and Steel [...]. Geology of the Manganese Deposits …Cairo, 1961.

    $380.00

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What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Kafka, Franz, Schriftsteller (1883-1924). Eigenh. Postkarte mit U. ("K").Prag, 23. II. 1922.

    $41,295.00

  • Schubert, Franz, composer (1797-1828). [Variations on a French Song, op. 10, D. 624 (fragment)]. Autograph musical …Vienna, September 1818.

    $103,237.00

  • Engels, Friedrich, political theorist (1820-1895). Autograph letter signed ("Frédéric Engels").London, 11 Mar 1873.

    $434,682.00

  • Schönberg, Arnold, Austrian composer (1874-1951). Autograph letter signed and autogr. quotation signed.Los Angeles, 15 May 1949.

    $3,043.00