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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

Villers, Charles de, philosopher (1765-1815). Autograph letter signed.Lübeck, 7 Dec 1808.

Nizami Ganjavi. Iqbal-nama.Safavid Iran, 1562-1571 CE = 970s H.

Stanley, Henry Morton, African explorer (1841-1904). Clipped signature.N. p. o. d.

[Bidpai]. Livre des lumières ou la conduite des roys, composé par le sage Pilpay …Paris, 1644.

What’s gone: some recent sales

[Zanzibar]. The Gazette for Zanzibar.Zanzibar, 1912-13, 1918 and 1920.

[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.

Klimt, Gustav, painter (1862-1918). Portrait photograph inscribed and signed.Probably Vienna, no date.

[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 Unpublished manuscript journal of a British voyage to the Gulf, containing …Middle East, mainly Arabian Peninsula, Persia, Africa, and India, 1928-1931, with additional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

All shipments fully insured and trackable door-to-door

Exhibiting at fairs internationally

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What’s new: recent acquisitions

Villers, Charles de, philosopher (1765-1815). Autograph letter signed.Lübeck, 7 Dec 1808.

Nizami Ganjavi. Iqbal-nama.Safavid Iran, 1562-1571 CE = 970s H.

Stanley, Henry Morton, African explorer (1841-1904). Clipped signature.N. p. o. d.

[Bidpai]. Livre des lumières ou la conduite des roys, composé par le sage Pilpay …Paris, 1644.

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What’s gone: some recent sales

[Zanzibar]. The Gazette for Zanzibar.Zanzibar, 1912-13, 1918 and 1920.

[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.

Klimt, Gustav, painter (1862-1918). Portrait photograph inscribed and signed.Probably Vienna, no date.

[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.