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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

  • [I Ching]. Wilhelm, Richard / Baynes, Cary F. (transl.) / Jung, Carl Gustav (foreword). The I Ching or Book of Changes.London, 1965.

    $30,400.00

  • Milne, R. The Dukhan Deep Test.London, 1959.

    $706.00

  • Laube, Heinrich, Schriftsteller und Theaterdirektor (1806-1884). Eigenh. Brief mit U. und eh. Albumblatt mit U.Leipzig, 21. XI. 1843 und 15. II. 1875.

    $282.00

  • Marx, Karl / Engels, Friedrich. Forderungen der kommunistischen Parthei in Deutschland.Paris, end of March 1848.

    $195,426.00

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What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Ptolemaeus, Claudius [translated by Angelus, Jacobus, edited by Germanus, Nicolaus]. [Russia, Black Sea] Octava Europe tabula.Ulm, 16 Jul 1482.

    $54,285.00

  • Mao Zedong, Chinese statesman (1893-1976). Autograph inscription signed in: Mao Zedong, "Hsin min-chu-chu-i lun" ("On …No place, 1942.

    $1,085,700.00

  • Haydn, Joseph. Ariana a Naxos. Cantata a Voce Sola. Accompagnata col Clavicembalo o Forte-Piano.London, Juni 1791.

    $16,285.00

  • [U.S. Air Force / NASA]. Lunar Astronautical Charts.St. Louis, Missouri, 1962-1967.

    $16,285.00