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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

  • Kipling, Rudyard, English poet and novelist, Nobel laureate (1865-1936). Autograph letter signed ("Rudyard Kipling").London, 20 Sep 1907.

    $3,751.00

  • [Ottoman military manual - firearms]. Ta'limat al-Madafi' - al-Shishanah.Cairo, early May 1864 CE = awa'il Du'l-Hijja 1280 H.

    $375.00

  • Waroquier, Henry de, French painter (1881-1970). Autograph letter signed.Paris, 5 Dec 1956.

    $236.00

  • [Beauchamp-Proctor, William, British Navy officer (1781-1861). Dictionary of Egypt].No place, ca. 1820.

    $3,001.00

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What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Megiser, Hieronymus. Institutionum linguae Turcicae, libri quatuor [...].Leipzig and Breslau, 1612.

    $62,162.00

  • [Mattioli, Pietro Andrea]. Original large-format woodblock of Aquilegia vulgaris (columbine).Prague, ca. 1562.

    $13,397.00

  • Waldemar, Prince of Prussia. Zur Erinnerung an die Reise des Prinzen Waldemar von Preussen nach Indien …Berlin, 1853.

    $40,727.00

  • [Goethe & Schiller] - Schiller, Friedrich von, (1759-1805) und Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832), deutsche Dichter. Albumblatt mit eigenh. Einträgen beider Dichter.O. O., zwischen 1796 und 1805, bzw. Weimar, 25 Jun 1823.

    $62,162.00