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, Jesuit missionary, astronomer, and historian at the Imperial Court in Beijing (1689-1759). "Catalogue Chinois des Étoiles". Autograph manuscript.Beijing, 1734.

    $135,907.00
  • Marx, Karl / Engels, Friedrich. Forderungen der kommunistischen Parthei in Deutschland.Paris, end of March 1848.

    $195,706.00
  • Mann, Thomas, German writer and Nobel laureate (1875-1955). Typed letter signed.Munich, 3 Mar 1927.

    $1,957.00
  • [Qur'an]. An Ottoman Qur'an manuscript.Ottoman Turkey, 18th century CE.

    $19,571.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Sarre, Friedrich / Herzfeld, Ernst. Archäologische Reise im Euphrat- und Tigris-Gebiet.Berlin, 1911-1920.

    $8,154.00
  • Bruckner, Anton, Komponist (1824-1896). Großformatige Portraitphotographie mit eigenh. U.Wohl Wien, 1891.

    $38,054.00
  • Haydn, Joseph. Ariana a Naxos. Cantata a Voce Sola. Accompagnata col Clavicembalo o Forte-Piano.London, Juni 1791.

    $16,309.00
  • [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.

    $103,289.00