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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

  • Hayek, Friedrich August, Austrian-British economist (1899-1992). "Notes for lectures". Autograph manuscript signed ("F. A. Hayek").No place or date.

    $13,041.00

  • [Lazzat Un Nisa]. Laddhat un-nisa [The Pleasure of Women].Northern India, ca. 1820s / early 19th century.

    $19,561.00

  • Hemingway, Ernest, American writer and Nobel Laureate (1899-1961). Autograph letter signed.Paris, 6 November 1933.

    $16,301.00

  • [Saudi Arabia]. Almash aljiulujiu waltanqib ean almaeadin fi almamlakat alearabiat alsaeudia …Saudi Arabia, 1970s.

    $272.00

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What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Nabokov, Vladimir. Lolita.Paris, August 1955.

    $4,890.00

  • Reichs-Marine-Amt. Segelhandbuch für den Persischen Golf.Berlin, 1907.

    $8,151.00

  • Vitruvius Pollio, Marcus. [De architectura libri decem].Venice, 22 May 1511.

    $81,506.00

  • [Qur'an Juz' - China]. An illuminated Qur'an, Juz' XX, written in Beijing by a Muslim woman.Khanbaliq Cambaluc, Beijing, 10 Nov. 1623 CE = 17 Muharram 1033 H.

    $135,844.00