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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

  • Lennon, John, English singer, songwriter and musician (1940-1980). Autograph drawing signed.No place, 1977?.

    $13,573.00

  • [Ge'ez]. Two Ge'ez healing scrolls.Ethiopia or Eritrea, 20th century.

    $869.00

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

    $271.00

  • Rahbi, Muhammad Ibn Ali al- / Jones, William (transl.). The Mahomedan Law of succession to the property of intestates, in Arabick, …London, 1782.

    $8,144.00

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What’s gone: some recent sales

  • [Du Fouilloux, Jacques, et al.]. Neuw Jag unnd Weydwerck Buch, das ist ein grundtliche beschreibung vom …Frankfurt, 1582.

    $135,733.00

  • [La Pira, Gioacchino, Italian painter (active 1839-1870) - attrib.]. A group of nineteen masterly gouaches of Naples and surroundings from the …Naples, ca. 1855-1866.

    $217,173.00

  • [Ephemerides] - Martin de Ath, Jean. Ephemerides meteorologicae anni bisextilis, 1572 horizonti Brabantico: …Antwerp, 1571.

    $3,040.00

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

    $3,801.00