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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

  • Sou, Paul, Chinese Lazarist missionary (ca. 1692-1770). Autograph document signed. Co-signed by the Bishop of Macau, Bartholomeu …Hia-su-hiang, 28 Aug 1744.

    € 4,500.00

  • Ghaznavi, Zaher al-Din Abul Muhammad ibn Masud al-. Kifayat al-ta'lim fi sina'at al-tanjim.Persia or Central Asia, 1708/09 CE = 1120 H.

    € 9,500.00

  • Herzmanovsky-Orlando, Fritz, Schriftsteller und Zeichner (1877-1954). Eigenh. Notiz.O. O., um 1950.

    € 950.00

  • Dunnington, H. V. Stratigraphical Distribution of Oilfields in the lraq-lran-Arabia Basin.London, 1967.

    € 250.00

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 Unpublished manuscript journal of a British voyage to the Gulf, containing …Middle East, mainly Arabian Peninsula, Persia, Africa, and India, 1928-1931, with additional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

    € 145,000.00

  • (Harsdörffer, Georg Philipp). Vollständig vermehrtes Trincir-Buch, Handlend: I. Von den Tafeldecken, …Nuremberg, 1654.

    € 4,500.00

  • Mahler, Gustav, Komponist und Dirigent (1860-1911). Des Knaben Wunderhorn. Gesänge für eine Singstimme mit Orchesterbegleitung.Wien, Leipzig, Paris, 1900?.

    € 18,000.00

  • Bombay Geographical Society. The Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society. From January 1868 …Bombay, 1874.

    € 140,000.00