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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

Beethoven, Ludwig van, composer (1770-1827). "Neue Liebe, Neues Leben". Autograph musical manuscript.Vienna, 1798-1799.

[Qur'an Juz']. An illuminated Qur'an, Juz' XXIX.China, ca. 1780 - 18th century CE.

Goethe, Walther Wolfgang Freiherr von, Kammerherr und Komponist (1818-1885). Lithographierte Visitenkarte.O. O., wohl 1850er Jahre.

Rabino di Borgomale, Hyacinthe Louis. Album of Coins, Medals, and Seals of the Shahs of Iran (1500-1948).Oxford, 1951.

What’s gone: some recent sales

[Herbarius]. Herbolario volgare, nelquale se dimostra a conoscer le herbe [...].Venice, June 1536.

Lenin (Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov), revolutionary, Marxist thinker, founder of the Soviet Union (1870-1924). Autograph inscription signed, together with Leon Trotsky.No place or date, November 1917.

[Logbook of HMS Effingham in the Gulf]. Larken, Francis Wyatt Rawson, Royal Navy officer (1911-1985). Unpublished manuscript journal of a British voyage to the Gulf, containing …Middle East, mainly Arabian Peninsula, Persia, Africa, and India, 1928-1931, with additional material to 1951.

Schubert, Franz, composer (1797-1828). Collection of three engraved cores: Op. 1 (Erlkönig), 2 (Gretchen am Spinnrade), …Vienna, 1821-1827.

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Serving the great universities, museums, and national libraries worldwide

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What’s new: recent acquisitions

Beethoven, Ludwig van, composer (1770-1827). "Neue Liebe, Neues Leben". Autograph musical manuscript.Vienna, 1798-1799.

[Qur'an Juz']. An illuminated Qur'an, Juz' XXIX.China, ca. 1780 - 18th century CE.

Goethe, Walther Wolfgang Freiherr von, Kammerherr und Komponist (1818-1885). Lithographierte Visitenkarte.O. O., wohl 1850er Jahre.

Rabino di Borgomale, Hyacinthe Louis. Album of Coins, Medals, and Seals of the Shahs of Iran (1500-1948).Oxford, 1951.

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[Herbarius]. Herbolario volgare, nelquale se dimostra a conoscer le herbe [...].Venice, June 1536.

Lenin (Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov), revolutionary, Marxist thinker, founder of the Soviet Union (1870-1924). Autograph inscription signed, together with Leon Trotsky.No place or date, November 1917.

[Logbook of HMS Effingham in the Gulf]. Larken, Francis Wyatt Rawson, Royal Navy officer (1911-1985). Unpublished manuscript journal of a British voyage to the Gulf, containing …Middle East, mainly Arabian Peninsula, Persia, Africa, and India, 1928-1931, with additional material to 1951.

Schubert, Franz, composer (1797-1828). Collection of three engraved cores: Op. 1 (Erlkönig), 2 (Gretchen am Spinnrade), …Vienna, 1821-1827.