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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

  • [Roman inked wooden tablet]. Roman inked wooden tablet.Roman Empire, 4th century AD.

    € 100,000.00

  • [Secretariat General of the League of Arab States]. [Second Arab Petroleum Exhibition. Organized by the General Secretariat …Cairo, 1965.

    € 450.00

  • Beatles (The). Please Please Me. (Mono PMC 1202). Autographed album signed.London, Summer 1963.

    € 55,000.00

  • [Muslim astrology]. [Persian astrological manuscript].No place, ca. 19th century CE.

    € 1,800.00

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What’s gone: some recent sales

  • [Du Fouilloux, Jacques, et al.]. Neuw Jag unnd Weydwerck Buch, das ist ein grundtliche beschreibung vom …Frankfurt, 1582.

    € 125,000.00

  • Rilke, Rainer Maria, Dichter (1875-1926). Eigenh. Gedicht mit Widmung und U. in: Ders., Neue Gedichte.Leipzig, 1914.

    € 9,500.00

  • Wagner, Richard, Komponist (1813-1883). "Prière d'Elisabeth". Eigenh. musikalisches Albumblatt mit U.Paris, 7 Jun 1861.

    € 26,000.00

  • [Astronomy]. Astronomical manuscript in Arabic.No place, late 18th century ca. 1785 CE / 1200 H.

    € 12,500.00