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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

  • Hesing (aka Xi Cheng or Xi Sheng), Mandarin who travelled in the Keying, first Chinese junk to ever sail from Hong Kong to New York and further to London. Portrait drawing of Hesing. Signed ("Hesing") in bold black ink at the …Blackwall, 20 June 1848.

    € 4,500.00

  • [Biblia arabica - Psalmi]. Kitab mazamir Da'ud al-Nabi [...] malik 'ala´ sha'b Bani Isra'il.Padua, 1709.

    € 12,500.00

  • Reinecke, Carl, Komponist und Dirigent (1824-1910). Eigenh. Brief mit U.Leipzig

    € 280.00

  • [Dubai - photograph album]. [Photo album - Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum].Iraq, ca. 1975.

    € 9,500.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Mahler, Gustav, Komponist und Dirigent (1860-1911). Programmzettel mit eigenh. U. ("Mahler").Wohl Wien, 13 Feb 1902.

    € 8,500.00

  • Klimt, Gustav, Maler (1862-1918). Weiblicher Akt mit ausgestrecktem linkem Arm (Allegorie der Oper).Wien, 1883.

    € 85,000.00

  • [Zanzibar]. The Gazette for Zanzibar.Zanzibar, 1912-13, 1918 and 1920.

    € 25,000.00

  • Katib Chelebi (Haji Khalifa/Mustafa ibn Abdallah). Kitab-i Cihânnümâ. [Jihan-numa, The mirror of the world].Constantinople, 3 July 1732.

    € 150,000.00