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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

  • Hillary, Sir Edmund, Bergsteiger (1919-2008). Ausschnitt mit eigenh. U.London?, Oktober 1953.

    $272.00

  • Leupold, Jacob. Theatrum machinarum.Leipzig, 1724-1727.

    $27,169.00

  • Wolf, Johann Christian, Philologe und Bibliothekar (1690-1770). Eigenh. Albumblatt mit U.Hamburg, 24 May 1736.

    $652.00

  • [Photos] - Middle Eastern Diplomacy. A trove of more than 600 photographs.Kuwait City, Manama, Muscat, Beirut, Tunis, Khartoum, London, Seattle, Washington D.C., and other places, 1950s to early 2000s.

    $38,036.00

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What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Blanckenhorn, [Prof. Dr. Max]. Die Hedschaz-Bahn auf Grund eigener Reisestudien.Berlin, 1907.

    $3,804.00

  • [Ships Logs] - F. R. Openshaw, Royal Navy midshipman (fl. 1900s). "Log of H. M. Ships Highflyer & Hyacinth". Autograph manuscript logs …Indian Ocean and the Gulf, 1902-1904.

    $103,241.00

  • Megiser, Hieronymus. Institutionum linguae Turcicae, libri quatuor [...].Leipzig and Breslau, 1612.

    $63,031.00

  • [Portuguese Mission in Asia]. Compendio historico dos seminarios da India, e Makao, regidos pelos padres …No place, 1800-1805.

    $19,561.00