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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

  • Suttner, Bertha von, Schriftstellerin und Friedensnobelpreisträgerin (1843-1914). Eigenh. Brief mit U. (Initialen).O. O., 2 Dec 1892.

    $535.00

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

    $19,269.00

  • Gaubil, Antoine, Jesuit missionary, astronomer, and historian at the Imperial Court in Beijing (1689-1759). "Catalogue pour la lune et les 5 planètes". Autograph manuscript.Beijing, 1735.

    $29,973.00

  • [Medical manuscript]. Pharmacopoeia.Southern Germany, 18th century.

    $2,997.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

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

    $37,467.00

  • Luther, Martin, Theologe und Reformator (1483-1546). Eigenh. Brief mit U. ("Martinus").Veste Coburg, "feria quinta post Equinoctium autumni" = 15. IX. 1530.

    $374,668.00

  • Kubin, Alfred, Graphiker und Schriftsteller (1877-1959). 44 eigenh. Briefe und Karten mit U.Meist Zwickledt, 1934 bis 1950.

    $23,551.00

  • [Kunstbüchlein]. Reich, Franz Joseph, Austrian artist (d. 1789). Kunstbiechlein in welchem mancherley bewerte unnd aprobierte Firneiß Polloment …Graz, ca. 1730-1788.

    $29,973.00