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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

Gaubil, Antoine, Jesuit missionary, astronomer, and historian at the Imperial Court in Beijing (1689-1759). "Catalogue Chinois des Étoiles". Autograph manuscript.Beijing, 1734.

Ibn Batuta / Samuel Lee (ed.). The Travels of Ibn Batuta. Translated from the abridged Arabic manuscript …London, 1829.

Gil de Frederich y Sans, Francesco, Saint, Spanish Dominican missionary in Vietnam (1702-1745). Document with 5 autograph lines signed.Tonkin Hanoi, 5 Jul 1744.

[Abu Dhabi]. Complete set of 6 Aerial Surveying Photographs (nos. 1-6). Abu Dhabi Sadiyat.Abu Dhabi and London, 1976.

What’s gone: some recent sales

Nabokov, Vladimir. Lolita.Paris, August 1955.

[Slave Trade]. Instructions for the Guidance of the Captains and Commanding Officers of …London, 1892.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, poet (1749-1832). "Die Feier des siebenten Novembers 1825 | Dankbar zu erwiedern [!]". Broadsheet …No place, 1832.

[Goethe & Schiller] - Schiller, Friedrich von, (1759-1805) und Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832), deutsche Dichter. Albumblatt mit eigenh. Einträgen beider Dichter.O. O., zwischen 1796 und 1805, bzw. Weimar, 25 Jun 1823.

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Serving the great universities, museums, and national libraries worldwide

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All shipments fully insured and trackable door-to-door

Exhibiting at fairs internationally

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What’s new: recent acquisitions

Gaubil, Antoine, Jesuit missionary, astronomer, and historian at the Imperial Court in Beijing (1689-1759). "Catalogue Chinois des Étoiles". Autograph manuscript.Beijing, 1734.

Ibn Batuta / Samuel Lee (ed.). The Travels of Ibn Batuta. Translated from the abridged Arabic manuscript …London, 1829.

Gil de Frederich y Sans, Francesco, Saint, Spanish Dominican missionary in Vietnam (1702-1745). Document with 5 autograph lines signed.Tonkin Hanoi, 5 Jul 1744.

[Abu Dhabi]. Complete set of 6 Aerial Surveying Photographs (nos. 1-6). Abu Dhabi Sadiyat.Abu Dhabi and London, 1976.

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Nabokov, Vladimir. Lolita.Paris, August 1955.

[Slave Trade]. Instructions for the Guidance of the Captains and Commanding Officers of …London, 1892.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, poet (1749-1832). "Die Feier des siebenten Novembers 1825 | Dankbar zu erwiedern [!]". Broadsheet …No place, 1832.

[Goethe & Schiller] - Schiller, Friedrich von, (1759-1805) und Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832), deutsche Dichter. Albumblatt mit eigenh. Einträgen beider Dichter.O. O., zwischen 1796 und 1805, bzw. Weimar, 25 Jun 1823.