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

  • Safi al-Din al-Kilani, Arabic physician (d. 1010 H / 1601 CE). Mughni al-Ahibba' wa Manhaj al-Atibba' fi al-Tibb [The Enricher of the …Mecca, 10-18 August 1592 CE = 2-10 Dhu'l-Qa'dah 1000 H.

     140,000.00
  • Ibn Rushd (Averroes). Collectaneorum de re medica, post Aristotelem atque Galenum facilè doctissimi, …Lyon, 1537.

     18,500.00
  • Pasternak, Boris, Russian poet (1890-1960). "Stikhi iz romana v proze" [Poems from a novel in prose]. A cycle of ten …No place, ca. 1948.

     35,000.00
  • Qaysari, 'Abd al-Muhsin al-. Sharh al-'Arud al-Andalusi.Medina, Nejd, Ottoman Empire, Sept. 1734 CE = Rabi' al-Thani 1147 H.

     9,500.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Nabokov, Vladimir. Lolita.Paris, August 1955.

     4,500.00
  • Zweig, Stefan. Die frühen Kränze.Leipzig, 1906.

     1,800.00
  • [United Arab Emirates]. Photograph of Sheikh Zayed raising the flag of independence at al-Diyafah …Dubai, 2 Dec 1971.

     35,000.00
  • Gilbert, Sir John, English painter (1817-1897) - attributed. Portrait of Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851), unsigned but initialled …London, likely 1837 or soon after.

     2,500.00