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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

  • Tesla, Nikola, Serbian-American inventor (1856-1943). Autograph letter signed ("N. Tesla").New York, 26 Jan 1894.

    $27,181.00

  • Zarqali, Abu Ishaq Ibrahim al- / Bianchini, Giovanni (ed.). Tabulae de motibus planetarum.Ferrara, ca. 1475.

    $304,432.00

  • Reymond, Claude-François de, French missionary in China and Vicar Apostolic of Sichuan (1720-1756). Autograph document signed. Co-signed by Pierre Lacerre, designated Vicar …N. p., 14 Feb 1756.

    $3,044.00

  • [Egypt]. Travel permit.Egypt, 1 May 1957.

    $272.00

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What’s gone: some recent sales

  • (Harsdörffer, Georg Philipp). Vollständig vermehrtes Trincir-Buch, Handlend: I. Von den Tafeldecken, …Nuremberg, 1654.

    $4,893.00

  • Friedell, Egon, Schriftsteller (1878-1938). Eigenh. Brief mit U.Wien, 20. IX. 1922.

    $1,033.00

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 Unpublished manuscript journal of a British voyage to the Gulf, containing …Middle East, mainly Arabian Peninsula, Persia, Africa, and India, 1928-1931, with additional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

    $157,652.00

  • Montaigne, Michel de. Essais de Messire Michel Seigneur de Montaigne, Chevalier de l'Ordre du …Bordeaux, 1580.

    $489,265.00