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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

Freud, Lucian, British painter and draughtsman (1922-2011). Autograph letter signed.4 Delamere Terrace, London, ca. 1960.

Secretariat General of the League of Arab States. Arab Petroleum Congress. Organized by the Secretariat General of the League …Cairo, 1963.

Suttner, Bertha von, Czech-Austrian pacifist and novelist, Nobel laureate (1843-1914). Autograph signature on an autograph picture postcard written and signed …Bad Reichenhall, 12 Jul 1906.

[Arabian Gulf]. Pelly, Lewis, et al. The Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society. From January 1863 …Bombay, 1865.

What’s gone: some recent sales

[Regulations for pearl fishing in Kuwait]. Qanun al-ghawasin fi'l Kuwayt ("Manual of the [pearl] divers in Kuwait").Kuwait City, 1359 H / AD 1940.

[Hinduism]. Sanskrit scroll.India, Rajasthan, 19th century.

Einstein, Albert, German physicist and Nobel laureate (1879-1955). Autograph manuscript for "Bivector Fields II" (1944).N. p. o. d.

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 Unpublished manuscript journal of a British voyage to the Gulf, containing …Middle East, mainly Arabian Peninsula, Persia, Africa, and India, 1928-1931, with additional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

Freud, Lucian, British painter and draughtsman (1922-2011). Autograph letter signed.4 Delamere Terrace, London, ca. 1960.

Secretariat General of the League of Arab States. Arab Petroleum Congress. Organized by the Secretariat General of the League …Cairo, 1963.

Suttner, Bertha von, Czech-Austrian pacifist and novelist, Nobel laureate (1843-1914). Autograph signature on an autograph picture postcard written and signed …Bad Reichenhall, 12 Jul 1906.

[Arabian Gulf]. Pelly, Lewis, et al. The Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society. From January 1863 …Bombay, 1865.

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What’s gone: some recent sales

[Regulations for pearl fishing in Kuwait]. Qanun al-ghawasin fi'l Kuwayt ("Manual of the [pearl] divers in Kuwait").Kuwait City, 1359 H / AD 1940.

[Hinduism]. Sanskrit scroll.India, Rajasthan, 19th century.

Einstein, Albert, German physicist and Nobel laureate (1879-1955). Autograph manuscript for "Bivector Fields II" (1944).N. p. o. d.

[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.