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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

[Mesopotamian clay tablet]. Mesopotamian cuneiform clay tablet.Mesopotamia, early 2nd millennium BCE.

[Ottoman military]. Asakir-i Mansûre-i Muhammediyye [The victorious soldiers of Muhammad].Istanbul, 1829/30 CE = 1245 H.

[Philatelie]. - Acavalos, Alexandre, chief accountant of the Ottoman Bank (fl. 1890). Copy ledger of 378 autograph letters signed (press copies).Cairo, 1886-1902.

Kirsten, Peter. Grammatices Arabicae libri I-III. [With:] Vitae evangelistarum quatuor. …Breslau, 1611, 1608-1611.

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 Unpublished manuscript journal of a British voyage to the Gulf, containing …Middle East, mainly Arabian Peninsula, Persia, Africa, and India, 1928-1931, with additional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

Boniface VIII, Pope (ca 1230-1303). Letter of indulgence for the church "Beati Nicolai" at the monastery of …St Peter, Rome, 1298.

Rowling, J[oanne] K., English writer (b. 1965). Original miniature manuscript.N. p., 2004.

Mackay, Ulrich Sinclair Peter, RAF pilot (1904-1945). Two photo albums of private and operational (restricted) photos of campaigns …Mainly Middle East, 1928-1931.

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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

[Mesopotamian clay tablet]. Mesopotamian cuneiform clay tablet.Mesopotamia, early 2nd millennium BCE.

[Ottoman military]. Asakir-i Mansûre-i Muhammediyye [The victorious soldiers of Muhammad].Istanbul, 1829/30 CE = 1245 H.

[Philatelie]. - Acavalos, Alexandre, chief accountant of the Ottoman Bank (fl. 1890). Copy ledger of 378 autograph letters signed (press copies).Cairo, 1886-1902.

Kirsten, Peter. Grammatices Arabicae libri I-III. [With:] Vitae evangelistarum quatuor. …Breslau, 1611, 1608-1611.

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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.

Boniface VIII, Pope (ca 1230-1303). Letter of indulgence for the church "Beati Nicolai" at the monastery of …St Peter, Rome, 1298.

Rowling, J[oanne] K., English writer (b. 1965). Original miniature manuscript.N. p., 2004.

Mackay, Ulrich Sinclair Peter, RAF pilot (1904-1945). Two photo albums of private and operational (restricted) photos of campaigns …Mainly Middle East, 1928-1931.