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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

  • [Chinese rites controversy, Vicariate of Western Tonkin.] - Kinh, Paul, Vietnamese missionary (fl. 1744). Autograph document signed. Co-signed by Jean-Louis Roux M.E.P.Tonkin, 26 Jul 1744.

    $5,359.00

  • Beatson, Alexander. [Original watercolour painting of Tipu Sultan, mounted in:] A View of the …London, 1800.

    $19,292.00

  • [Falconry - Sancho I of Mallorca]. Invoice document (albarán) for falconry expenses.No place, 1320.

    $91,099.00

  • Ibn Rushd (Averroes). Collectaneorum de re medica, post Aristotelem atque Galenum facilè doctissimi, …Lyon, 1537.

    $19,827.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Hese, Johannes Witte de. Itinerarius Joannis de Hese presbyteri a Hierusalem describens dispositiones …Deventer, 1504.

    $48,229.00

  • [Cabala]. Cabala, sive Scrinia Sacra, Mysteries of State and Government: in Letters …London, 1663.

    $4,823.00

  • Strabo. [Strabonos geographikon bibloi hepta kai deka]. Strabonis rerum geographicarum …Basel, August 1571.

    $37,511.00

  • [Ships Logs] - F. R. Openshaw, Royal Navy midshipman (fl. 1900s). "Log of H. M. Ships Highflyer & Hyacinth". Autograph manuscript logs …Indian Ocean and the Gulf, 1902-1904.

    $101,816.00