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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

  • Carlson, Evans, American military observer in China (1896-1947). Archive of an American military observer in China.China and California, 1939-1940.

    $16,057.00

  • [Albumen photograph collage]. Photograph album.Possibly Sweden, ca. 1870s.

    $4,817.00

  • Goegg-Pouchoulin, Marie, Swiss feminist and pacifist activist, founder of the International Women's Association (1826-1899). 3 autograph letters signed and 2 fragments of autograph letters, one of …Geneva, 5 May - 27 June 1881.

    $6,958.00

  • Ibn Rushd (Averroes). Collectaneorum de re medica, post Aristotelem atque Galenum facilè doctissimi, …Lyon, 1537.

    $19,804.00

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What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Einstein, Albert, German physicist and Nobel laureate (1879-1955). Autograph manuscript for "Bivector Fields II" (1944).N. p. o. d.

    $48,172.00

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

    $133,810.00

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

    $133,810.00

  • Mahler-Werfel, Alma, Komponistin und Schriftstellerin (1879-1964). Eigenh. Brief mit U.New York, 13 Nov 1947.

    $2,569.00