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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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What’s new: recent acquisitions

Pedrini, Teodorico, Italian missionary, musician, and composer at the Imperial Court in Beijing (1671-1746). Autograph document signed. Co-signed by the bishop of Beijing, Polycarpo …Beijing, 1642-1646.

Harrison, J[ohn] V[ernon]. Mountains and Oil.London, 1944.

Celan, Paul, Romanian born German-language poet (1920-1970). "Chanson einer Dame im Schatten". Autograph poem signed ("Paul Celan").Paris, August 1949.

Arab Union of Petroleum Workers. Al-Batrul al-'Arabi. [Arab Petroleum].Cairo, February 1963.

What’s gone: some recent sales

Firdawsi, Abu’l-Qasim. Shah Nameh [The Book of Kings].Northern India, 23 Jan. 1687 CE = 9 Rabi I 1098 H.

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 Unpublished manuscript journal of a British voyage to the Gulf, containing …Middle East, mainly Arabian Peninsula, Persia, Africa, and India, 1928-1931, with additional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

Vitruvius Pollio, Marcus. [De architectura libri decem].Venice, 22 May 1511.

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

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Serving the great universities, museums, and national libraries worldwide

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What’s new: recent acquisitions

Pedrini, Teodorico, Italian missionary, musician, and composer at the Imperial Court in Beijing (1671-1746). Autograph document signed. Co-signed by the bishop of Beijing, Polycarpo …Beijing, 1642-1646.

Harrison, J[ohn] V[ernon]. Mountains and Oil.London, 1944.

Celan, Paul, Romanian born German-language poet (1920-1970). "Chanson einer Dame im Schatten". Autograph poem signed ("Paul Celan").Paris, August 1949.

Arab Union of Petroleum Workers. Al-Batrul al-'Arabi. [Arab Petroleum].Cairo, February 1963.

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What’s gone: some recent sales

Firdawsi, Abu’l-Qasim. Shah Nameh [The Book of Kings].Northern India, 23 Jan. 1687 CE = 9 Rabi I 1098 H.

[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.

Vitruvius Pollio, Marcus. [De architectura libri decem].Venice, 22 May 1511.

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