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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

  • Suttner, Bertha von, writer and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (1843-1914). Autograph quotation signed.Prague, 3 Feb 1906.

    $596.00

  • Qazvini, Sharaf al-Din Fazlullah. Kitab al-Mu'jam fi athar muluk al-ajam.Persia, 1847 CE.

    $13,541.00

  • [Chinese rites controversy, Vicariate of Western Tonkin.] - Phan, François, Vietnamese missionary (fl. 1750). Autograph document signed. Co-signed by the Vicar Apostolic of Western …Tonkin, 16 Aug 1750.

    $2,708.00

  • [British Foreign Office]. Correspondence Respecting the Turco-Egyptian Frontier in the Sinai Peninsula.London, 1906.

    $704.00

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What’s gone: some recent sales

  • [Slave Trade]. Instructions for the Guidance of the Captains and Commanding Officers of …London, 1892.

    $37,914.00

  • Liszt, Franz, Komponist und Pianist (1811-1886). Eigenh. Brief mit U. ("F. Liszt").Weimar, 25 Sep 1885.

    $3,791.00

  • Mahler, Gustav, Komponist und Dirigent (1860-1911). Programmzettel mit eigenh. U. ("Mahler").Wohl Wien, 13 Feb 1902.

    $9,208.00

  • Page, Théogène François, captain of the frigate La Favorit (1807-1867). Campagne de la Favorite - Journal.In the Gulf and elsewhere at sea, 3 June 1841 - 5 January 1844.

    $379,137.00