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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

[Mesopotamian clay tablet]. Mesopotamian cuneiform clay tablet.Mesopotamia, early 2nd millennium BCE.

[Biblia syriaca - NT]. The Gospels in Syriac.Lebanon, ca. 1790s CE.

[Wiener Künstler des frühen 20. Jhdts.]. Albumblatt mit 20 eigenh. U. von namhaften Musikern, Malern und Schriftstellern.Österreich, um 1920.

[Ottoman state newspaper]. Takvim-i Vekayi'. Issues 201-400.Istanbul, 1840-1849 CE = 1256-1265 H.

What’s gone: some recent sales

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

[Ludwig Salvator]. Wintertage auf Ithaka.Prag, 1905.

Tusi, Muhamad ibn Muhamad ibn al-Hasan al-. Kitab Uqlidis fi ilm al-handasa [An exposition on mathematics and geometry …Early Safavid Persia, first half of the 16th century.

[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.

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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

[Mesopotamian clay tablet]. Mesopotamian cuneiform clay tablet.Mesopotamia, early 2nd millennium BCE.

[Biblia syriaca - NT]. The Gospels in Syriac.Lebanon, ca. 1790s CE.

[Wiener Künstler des frühen 20. Jhdts.]. Albumblatt mit 20 eigenh. U. von namhaften Musikern, Malern und Schriftstellern.Österreich, um 1920.

[Ottoman state newspaper]. Takvim-i Vekayi'. Issues 201-400.Istanbul, 1840-1849 CE = 1256-1265 H.

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Early printing to 1600

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What’s gone: some recent sales

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

[Ludwig Salvator]. Wintertage auf Ithaka.Prag, 1905.

Tusi, Muhamad ibn Muhamad ibn al-Hasan al-. Kitab Uqlidis fi ilm al-handasa [An exposition on mathematics and geometry …Early Safavid Persia, first half of the 16th century.

[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.