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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

  • [Falconry - Sancho I of Mallorca]. Invoice document (albarán) for falconry expenses.No place, 1320.

    $92,417.00

  • [Falconry]. Collection of ten original watercolours showing falcons.Probably Scandinavia, c. 1840.

    $16,309.00

  • Stanley, Henry Morton, African explorer (1841-1904). Album leaf signed.Paris, 28 Aug 1891.

    $870.00

  • Lees, G[eorge] M[artin]. The Search for Oil.London and Beccles, 1940.

    $326.00

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What’s gone: some recent sales

  • [La Pira, Gioacchino, Italian painter (active 1839-1870) - attrib.]. A group of nineteen masterly gouaches of Naples and surroundings from the …Naples, ca. 1855-1866.

    $217,451.00

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

    $152,216.00

  • Vasif, Ahmet. Mahasin al-athar wa-haqaiq al-akhbar.Bulaq, 1246 1830.

    $4,893.00

  • Rilke, Rainer Maria, Dichter (1875-1926). Eigenh. Gedicht mit Widmung und U. in: Ders., Neue Gedichte.Leipzig, 1914.

    $10,329.00