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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

  • Gaubil, Antoine, Jesuit missionary, astronomer, and historian at the Imperial Court in Beijing (1689-1759). "Catalogue Chinois des Étoiles". Autograph manuscript.Beijing, 1734.

    $135,844.00

  • Lees, G[eorge] M[artin]. Persia.Oxford, 1953.

    $380.00

  • Hayek, Friedrich August, Austrian-British economist (1899-1992). "Notes for lectures". Autograph manuscript signed ("F. A. Hayek").No place or date.

    $13,041.00

  • Lees, G[eorge] M[artin]. The Search for Oil.London and Beccles, 1940.

    $326.00

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What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Breydenbach, Bernhard von. [Peregrinatio in terram sanctam, germanice:] Dis buch ist innhaltend die …Speyer, between 1502 and 1505.

    $201,049.00

  • [Hauslab, Franz von]. Darstellung der K. K. Oesterreichischen Armee mit allen Chargen [...].Vienna, 1823.

    $10,324.00

  • [Slave Trade]. Instructions for the Guidance of the Captains and Commanding Officers of …London, 1892.

    $38,036.00

  • [Astronomy]. Astronomical manuscript in Arabic.No place, late 18th century ca. 1785 CE / 1200 H.

    $13,584.00