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.

    $135,706.00
  • [Muslim World League]. [Muslim World League magazine].Mecca, 1975-76.

    $543.00
  • 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.

    $3,040.00
  • João, King of Portugal. [Abolition of Financial Council in the Captaincy of Bahia]. Eu Elrey. Faço …Lisbon, 1770.

    $2,714.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • [La Pira, Gioacchino, Italian painter (active 1839-1870) - attrib.]. A group of ten masterly gouaches of Naples and surroundings from the collection …Naples, ca. 1855-1866.

    $135,706.00
  • Allaeus, Franciscus. Astrologiae Nova Methodus. Francisci Allaei, Arabis Christiani.Rennes, 1654-1655.

    $81,424.00
  • La Fontaine, Jean de, French writer (1621-1695). Autograph document signed "De la fontaine".No place, 5 Jan 1660.

    $16,285.00
  • [Hinduism]. Sanskrit scroll.India, Rajasthan, 19th century.

    $3,800.00