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
  • [Farasnama]. Farasnama [The Coloured Book of Horses]. Hippiatric manuscript.India, ca. 1800 CE.

     35,000.00
  • Lafayette, Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de, French statesman and military officer (1757-1834), hero of the American Revolutionary War. Autograph letter signed.Sarreguemines Saargemünd, 13 Jul 1785.

     6,500.00
  • [Abu Dhabi]. Geological map of Abu Dhabi.Abu Dhabi, 1970s.

     3,500.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • [United Arab Emirates]. Photograph of Sheikh Zayed raising the flag of independence at al-Diyafah …Dubai, 2 Dec 1971.

     35,000.00
  • Wagner, Richard, Komponist (1813-1883). Portraitphotographie mit eigenh. Widmung als vollständiges Notenmanuskript …Wien, 1861.

     30,000.00
  • Schönberg, Arnold, Austrian composer (1874-1951). Autograph letter signed and autogr. quotation signed.Los Angeles, 15 May 1949.

     2,800.00
  • Wittgenstein, Ludwig, Austrian philosopher (1889-1951). Autograph picture postcard signed.Cambridge, 28. II. 1929.

     2,500.00