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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

  • Lennon, John, English singer, songwriter and musician (1940-1980). Autograph drawing signed.No place, 1977?.

    $13,584.00

  • Watson, James D., American Nobel laureate, molecular biologist, and geneticist (b. 1928). Genes, Girls and Gamow.Oxford, 2001.

    $869.00

  • Davoust, Jean, French missionary in Vietnam and Vicar Apostolic of Western Tonkin (1728-1789). Autograph document signed. Co-signed by the Vicar Apostolic of Western …Vinh, 28 Feb 1755.

    $2,717.00

  • Arab Union of Petroleum Workers. Al-Batrul al-'Arabi. [Arab Petroleum].Cairo, February 1963.

    $272.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Ferdinand I., röm.-dt. Kaiser (1503-1564), hier noch als Erzherzog. Gewaltbrief mit eigenh. U.Wien, 4 Nov 1526.

    $7,064.00

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

    $38,036.00

  • Mandeville, John. Reysen und Wanderschafften durch das Gelobte Land.Strasbourg, 1488.

    $489,037.00

  • Klimt, Gustav, Maler (1862-1918). Weiblicher Akt mit ausgestrecktem linkem Arm (Allegorie der Oper).Wien, 1883.

    $92,374.00