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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

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

[Alf layla wa-layla]. Kitab Alf layla wa-layla. Vols. I and II.Bulaq, 1835 CE = 1251 H.

Heyse, Paul, Schriftsteller (1830-1914). Portraitpostkarte mit eigenh. U.München, 1. III. 1910.

[UAE - Dubai and Abu Dhabi, royal families]. [Photograph collection showing Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum, Maktoum bin …United Arab Emirates, ca. 1970-1974.

What’s gone: some recent sales

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.

[Cabala]. Cabala, sive Scrinia Sacra, Mysteries of State and Government: in Letters …London, 1663.

Mao Zedong, Chinese statesman (1893-1976). Autograph album signed by Mao Zedong and Chou Enlai.Beijing, 8 Jan 1963.

[Logbook of HMS Effingham in the Gulf]. Larken, Francis Wyatt Rawson, Royal Navy officer (1911-1985). Unpublished manuscript journal of a British voyage to the Gulf, containing …Middle East, mainly Arabian Peninsula, Persia, Africa, and India, 1928-1931, with additional material to 1951.

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Serving the great universities, museums, and national libraries worldwide

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Unconditional guarantee of authenticity

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Exhibiting at fairs internationally

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What’s new: recent acquisitions

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

[Alf layla wa-layla]. Kitab Alf layla wa-layla. Vols. I and II.Bulaq, 1835 CE = 1251 H.

Heyse, Paul, Schriftsteller (1830-1914). Portraitpostkarte mit eigenh. U.München, 1. III. 1910.

[UAE - Dubai and Abu Dhabi, royal families]. [Photograph collection showing Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum, Maktoum bin …United Arab Emirates, ca. 1970-1974.

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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.

[Cabala]. Cabala, sive Scrinia Sacra, Mysteries of State and Government: in Letters …London, 1663.

Mao Zedong, Chinese statesman (1893-1976). Autograph album signed by Mao Zedong and Chou Enlai.Beijing, 8 Jan 1963.

[Logbook of HMS Effingham in the Gulf]. Larken, Francis Wyatt Rawson, Royal Navy officer (1911-1985). Unpublished manuscript journal of a British voyage to the Gulf, containing …Middle East, mainly Arabian Peninsula, Persia, Africa, and India, 1928-1931, with additional material to 1951.