Our catalogue for Firsts - London's Rare Book Fair

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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

  • Stanley, Henry Morton, African explorer (1841-1904). Clipped signature.N. p. o. d.

    $653.00

  • [Qur'an]. Manuscript Qur'an.Kashmir, 19th century CE.

    $10,336.00

  • Muammar Al-Gaddafi, Libyan revolutionary and politician (1942-2011). Portrait print signed.No place or date.

    $925.00

  • Roberts, David. The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia [...]. (And:) Egypt & Nubia, from …London, 1842-1849.

    $103,356.00

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What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Mao Zedong, Chinese statesman (1893-1976). Autograph inscription signed in: Mao Zedong, "Hsin min-chu-chu-i lun" ("On …No place, 1942.

    $1,087,962.00

  • Vesalius, Andreas. De humani corporis fabrica libri septem.Basel, June 1543.

    $380,787.00

  • Géricault, Théodore. Five complete series by the greatest horse painter of 19th century, including …Paris, 1822-1823.

    $38,079.00

  • Klimt, Gustav, Maler (1862-1918). Weiblicher Akt mit ausgestrecktem linkem Arm (Allegorie der Oper).Wien, 1883.

    $92,477.00