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

  • Nietzsche, Friedrich, German philosopher and poet (1844-1900). Autograph letter signed ("Friedrich Nietzsche").Basel, 27 Sep 1876.

    $92,374.00
  • Ibn al-Rami al-Banna, Muhammad ibn Ibrahim. Kitab al-I'lan bi-Ahkam al-Bunyan.North Africa, late 18th century CE.

    $16,301.00
  • Gaubil, Antoine, Jesuit missionary, astronomer, and historian at the Imperial Court in Beijing (1689-1759). "Catalogue Chinois des Étoiles". Autograph manuscript.Beijing, 1734.

    $135,844.00
  • Roberts, David. The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia [...]. (And:) Egypt & Nubia, from …London, 1842-1849.

    $103,241.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Ferdinand I., röm.-dt. Kaiser (1503-1564), hier noch als Erzherzog. Gewaltbrief mit eigenh. U.Wien, 4 Nov 1526.

    $7,064.00
  • Einstein, Albert, German physicist and Nobel laureate (1879-1955). Autograph manuscript for "Bivector Fields II" (1944).N. p. o. d.

    $48,904.00
  • Nabokov, Vladimir. Lolita.Paris, August 1955.

    $4,890.00
  • 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.

    $103,241.00