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.

     125,000.00
  • Hunting Surveys Ltd. Aerial survey photographs (nos. 1-7). Liwa Villages.London, 1976-1977.

     18,000.00
  • Lefebvre, Urbain, French missionary in China and Blessed Martyr of the Carmes (1725-1792). Autograph document signed.Macau, 8 Sep 1750.

     3,500.00
  • [Biblia syriaca - NT]. The Gospels in Syriac.Lebanon, ca. 1790s CE.

     35,000.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Kafka, Franz, Schriftsteller (1883-1924). Eigenh. Postkarte mit U. ("K").Prag, 23. II. 1922.

     38,000.00
  • Zweig, Stefan. Die frühen Kränze.Leipzig, 1906.

     1,800.00
  • Schubert, Franz, composer (1797-1828). [Variations on a French Song, op. 10, D. 624 (fragment)]. Autograph musical …Vienna, September 1818.

     95,000.00
  • [Kunstbüchlein]. Reich, Franz Joseph, Austrian artist (d. 1789). Kunstbiechlein in welchem mancherley bewerte unnd aprobierte Firneiß Polloment …Graz, ca. 1730-1788.

     28,000.00