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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

  • Strauss, Richard, Komponist (1864-1949). Portraitpostkarte mit eigenh. U.O. O. u. D.

    $1,306.00

  • Watson, James D., American Nobel laureate, molecular biologist, and geneticist (b. 1928). Genes, Girls and Gamow.Oxford, 2001.

    $870.00

  • Herzmanovsky-Orlando, Fritz, Schriftsteller und Zeichner (1877-1954). Eigenh. Brief mit U.Meran, Schloß Rametz, 31 Mar 1954.

    $2,720.00

  • Ibn Batuttah. Voyages d'Ibn Batoutah. Texte arabe, accompagné d'une traduction par C. …Paris, 1853-1859.

    $9,248.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

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

    $4,896.00

  • [Ephemerides] - Martin de Ath, Jean. Ephemerides meteorologicae anni bisextilis, 1572 horizonti Brabantico: …Antwerp, 1571.

    $3,046.00

  • Bombay Geographical Society. The Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society. From January 1868 …Bombay, 1874.

    $152,315.00

  • [Qur'an Juz' - China]. An illuminated Qur'an, Juz' XX, written in Beijing by a Muslim woman.Khanbaliq Cambaluc, Beijing, 10 Nov. 1623 CE = 17 Muharram 1033 H.

    $135,995.00