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

[London Conference]. Photograph from the London Conference.London, 17 Feb 1939.

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

Hassan, A. A. Sixth Arab Petroleum Congress. Organized by the Secretariat General of …Cairo, 1967.

What’s gone: some recent sales

[Hinduism]. Illuminated Hinduistic manuscript.India, early 19th century.

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 Unpublished manuscript journal of a British voyage to the Gulf, containing …Middle East, mainly Arabian Peninsula, Persia, Africa, and India, 1928-1931, with additional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

[Saudi Arabia - Aramco]. Warner, Daniel Warren Brickell, American architect (1914-2005). Housing studies for Aramco.Rome, 1952-1954.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, Dichter (1749-1832). Eigenh. Gedichtmanuskript mit U.O. O., Februar 1825.

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Serving the great universities, museums, and national libraries worldwide

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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.

[London Conference]. Photograph from the London Conference.London, 17 Feb 1939.

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

Hassan, A. A. Sixth Arab Petroleum Congress. Organized by the Secretariat General of …Cairo, 1967.

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What’s gone: some recent sales

[Hinduism]. Illuminated Hinduistic manuscript.India, early 19th century.

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 Unpublished manuscript journal of a British voyage to the Gulf, containing …Middle East, mainly Arabian Peninsula, Persia, Africa, and India, 1928-1931, with additional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

[Saudi Arabia - Aramco]. Warner, Daniel Warren Brickell, American architect (1914-2005). Housing studies for Aramco.Rome, 1952-1954.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, Dichter (1749-1832). Eigenh. Gedichtmanuskript mit U.O. O., Februar 1825.