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

  • Beethoven, Ludwig van, composer (1770-1827). "Neue Liebe, Neues Leben". Autograph musical manuscript.Vienna, 1798-1799.

     350,000.00
  • [League of Arab States, Secretariat General]. Fourth Arab Petroleum Congress. Organized by the Secretariat General of …Beirut, 1963.

     450.00
  • Reger, Max, Komponist und Pianist (1873-1916). Portraitpostkarte mit eigenh. U.O. O., 9. VII. 1909.

     450.00
  • Jabir ibn Hayyan (Geber). Al-Durrah al-Yatimah [The Orphan Pearl on the Precious Art of Chemistry].No place Syria?, 20 Jan. 1756 CE = 17 Rabi II 1169 H.

     75,000.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Chimani, Leopold. Bunte Scenerien aus dem Menschenleben. Ein Bilderbuch ganz neuer Art.Wien, 1836.

     12,500.00
  • Ptolemaeus, Claudius [translated by Angelus, Jacobus, edited by Germanus, Nicolaus]. [Russia, Black Sea] Octava Europe tabula.Ulm, 16 Jul 1482.

     50,000.00
  • [DNA structure]. Crick, Francis; Watson, James Dewey; and others. The milestone papers on the structure of DNA in "Nature", vols. 171 and …London, 1953.

     9,500.00
  • Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de, French painter and illustrator (1864-1901). Autograph letter monogrammed "HTL".Paris, ca. 1884/1885.

     4,500.00