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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

Freud, Lucian, British painter and draughtsman (1922-2011). Autograph letter signed.4 Delamere Terrace, London, ca. 1960.

[Ethiopian Divinatory Text]. Awda Nagast [The Circle of the King].Ethiopia, late 18th or early 19th century CE.

Martin Heidegger, Philosoph (1889-1976). Eigenh. Briefkarte mit zweifacher U.Freiburg i. Br., 25 Feb 1973.

[Oman]. Cole, C. S. D. An Account of an Overland Journey from Leskkairee to Meskat and the "Green …Bombay, 1849.

What’s gone: some recent sales

Montaigne, Michel de. Essais de Messire Michel Seigneur de Montaigne, Chevalier de l'Ordre du …Bordeaux, 1580.

Schubert, Franz, composer (1797-1828). [Variations on a French Song, op. 10, D. 624 (fragment)]. Autograph musical …Vienna, September 1818.

Brentano, Franz, Philosoph und Psychologe (1838-1917). Eigenh. Brief mit U.Aschaffenburg, 6 Feb 1874.

[DNA structure]. Crick, Francis; Watson, James Dewey; and others. The milestone papers on the structure of DNA in "Nature", vols. 171 and …London, 1953.

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Serving the great universities, museums, and national libraries worldwide

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Unconditional guarantee of authenticity

All shipments fully insured and trackable door-to-door

Exhibiting at fairs internationally

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What’s new: recent acquisitions

Freud, Lucian, British painter and draughtsman (1922-2011). Autograph letter signed.4 Delamere Terrace, London, ca. 1960.

[Ethiopian Divinatory Text]. Awda Nagast [The Circle of the King].Ethiopia, late 18th or early 19th century CE.

Martin Heidegger, Philosoph (1889-1976). Eigenh. Briefkarte mit zweifacher U.Freiburg i. Br., 25 Feb 1973.

[Oman]. Cole, C. S. D. An Account of an Overland Journey from Leskkairee to Meskat and the "Green …Bombay, 1849.

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What’s gone: some recent sales

Montaigne, Michel de. Essais de Messire Michel Seigneur de Montaigne, Chevalier de l'Ordre du …Bordeaux, 1580.

Schubert, Franz, composer (1797-1828). [Variations on a French Song, op. 10, D. 624 (fragment)]. Autograph musical …Vienna, September 1818.

Brentano, Franz, Philosoph und Psychologe (1838-1917). Eigenh. Brief mit U.Aschaffenburg, 6 Feb 1874.

[DNA structure]. Crick, Francis; Watson, James Dewey; and others. The milestone papers on the structure of DNA in "Nature", vols. 171 and …London, 1953.