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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

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

    € 8,500.00

  • Owen, Charles Henry. Sketches in the Crimea, Taken During the Late War.London, 1856.

    € 9,500.00

  • Reger, Max, Komponist und Pianist (1873-1916). Portraitpostkarte mit eigenh. U.O. O., 9. VII. 1909.

    € 450.00

  • Faris al-Shidyaq, Ahmad (1804-1887, compiler and scribe) / Ibn Durayd al-Azdi, Muhammad ibn al-Hasan / Al-Zamakhshari, Abu al-Qasim Mahmud ibn Umar. Sharh al-Maqsurah al-Duraydiyah [Commentary on Ibn Durayd's Book of the …Ottoman Egypt, 1833/34 CE = 1249 H.

    € 35,000.00

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What’s gone: some recent sales

  • [Du Fouilloux, Jacques, et al.]. Neuw Jag unnd Weydwerck Buch, das ist ein grundtliche beschreibung vom …Frankfurt, 1582.

    € 125,000.00

  • La Fontaine, Jean de, French writer (1621-1695). Autograph document signed "De la fontaine".No place, 5 Jan 1660.

    € 15,000.00

  • Sarre, Friedrich / Herzfeld, Ernst. Archäologische Reise im Euphrat- und Tigris-Gebiet.Berlin, 1911-1920.

    € 7,500.00

  • Firdawsi, Abu’l-Qasim. Shah Nameh [The Book of Kings].Northern India, 23 Jan. 1687 CE = 9 Rabi I 1098 H.

    € 45,000.00