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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

  • Tesla, Nikola, Serbian-American inventor (1856-1943). Autograph letter signed ("N. Tesla").New York, 26 Jan 1894.

    $26,794.00

  • Boccaccio, Giovanni. Il Filocopo […] Di nuovo riveduto, corretto, & alla sua vera lettione …Venice, 1554.

    $2,411.00

  • Strauss, Richard, Komponist (1864-1949). Portraitpostkarte mit eigenh. U.O. O. u. D.

    $1,286.00

  • Murphy, James Cavanah. The Arabian Antiquities of Spain.London, 1815.

    $26,794.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

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

    $16,076.00

  • Culpeper, Nich[olas]. Catastrophe magnatum: Or, the Fall of Monarchie. A Caveat to Magistrates, …London, 1652.

    $2,679.00

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

    $101,816.00

  • Reinhardt, Max, Regisseur, Intendant, Theatergründer (1873-1943). 2 eigenh. Gedichte.O. O. u. D., ca. 1895.

    $2,679.00