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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, French Jesuit missionary, astronomer, and historian at the Imperial Court in Beijing (1689-1759). "Mémoire sur les îles de Lieou Kieou".Beijing, 1751/1752.

    $26,794.00

  • Ibn al-`Awwam, Abu Zakariya Yahyá ibn Muhammad. Le livre de l'agriculture d'Ibn-al-Awam (Kitab al-Felahah). Traduit de …Paris, 1864-1866.

    $3,751.00

  • [Pazzini]. Legal documents of the Pazzini family.Castel Corno, Isera, Rovereto, and other places, 1667-1717.

    $2,679.00

  • [Maximilian, Emperor of Mexiko (1832-1867)]. "Armée Mexicaine 1".N. p., fl. 1885.

    $4,823.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • La Fontaine, Jean de, French writer (1621-1695). Autograph document signed "De la fontaine".No place, 5 Jan 1660.

    $16,076.00

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 Unpublished manuscript journal of a British voyage to the Gulf, containing …Middle East, mainly Arabian Peninsula, Persia, Africa, and India, 1928-1931, with additional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

    $155,404.00

  • Bassantin, James. Astronomique discours.Lyon, 1557.

    $80,381.00

  • Duse, Eleonora, singer and actress (1858-1924). Autograph letter signed.Vienna, 29 Nov 1899.

    $857.00