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.

    $135,606.00
  • Qazvini, Sharaf al-Din Fazlullah. Kitab al-Mu'jam fi athar muluk al-ajam.Persia, 1847 CE.

    $13,561.00
  • Reymond, Claude-François de, French missionary in China and Vicar Apostolic of Sichuan (1720-1756). Autograph document signed. Co-signed by Pierre Lacerre, designated Vicar …N. p., 14 Feb 1756.

    $3,038.00
  • Beethoven, Ludwig van. Fidelio. Eine große Oper in 2 Aufzugen [!] im vollständigen, einzig-rechtmäßigen …Vienna, 1814.

    $10,306.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Lenin (Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov), revolutionary, Marxist thinker, founder of the Soviet Union (1870-1924). Autograph inscription signed, together with Leon Trotsky.No place or date, November 1917.

    $103,061.00
  • Zweig, Stefan. Die frühen Kränze.Leipzig, 1906.

    $1,953.00
  • Monterchi, Giuseppe. Rariora maximi moduli numismata selecta ex bibliotheca eminentiss. & …Amsterdam, 1685.

    $629.00
  • [Mattioli, Pietro Andrea]. Original large-format woodblock of Aquilegia vulgaris (columbine).Prague, ca. 1562.

    $13,561.00