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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

  • Kipling, Rudyard, English poet and novelist, Nobel laureate (1865-1936). Autograph letter signed ("Rudyard Kipling").Naulakha, Dummerston, Brattleboro, Vermont, 10 Feb 1895.

    $16,057.00

  • Sauvaget, Jean. Les Monuments historiques de Damas.Beirut, 1932.

    $375.00

  • Ericsson, John, Swedish-American inventor (1803-1889). Autograph letter signed.No place, 1 May 1858.

    $1,017.00

  • Said, Nuri al-. Muhadarat 'an 'l-harakat al-'askariya li-l-jaish al-'arabi fi 'l-Hijaz …Baghdad, 1947.

    $3,747.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Ptolemaeus, Claudius [translated by Angelus, Jacobus, edited by Germanus, Nicolaus]. [Russia, Black Sea] Octava Europe tabula.Ulm, 16 Jul 1482.

    $53,524.00

  • Pereyra, Antonio Pinto. Historia no Tempo em que a Gouernovo Viso Rey Dom Luis de Ataide.Coimbra, 1616.

    $16,057.00

  • Wittgenstein, Ludwig, Austrian philosopher (1889-1951). Autograph picture postcard signed.Cambridge, 28. II. 1929.

    $2,676.00

  • Pierotti, Ermete, Italian engineer, topographer and archaeologist (1820-1880). "Le Mont Moria". Album of original photographs and manuscript plans of …Jerusalem, February/March 1861.

    $96,343.00