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.

    $135,907.00
  • [Arabian Gulf]. Pelly, Lewis, et al. The Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society. From January 1863 …Bombay, 1865.

    $103,289.00
  • Shackleton, Sir Ernest Henry, Polar explorer (1874-1922). Album leaf signed.No place, 22 Jul 1921.

    $1,359.00
  • Dani, 'Uthman ibn Sa'id (Abu 'Amr) al-. Al-Taysir fi al-qira'at al-sab'.Mamluk Syria, 14th century CE.

    $70,672.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • [DNA structure]. Crick, Francis; Watson, James Dewey; and others. The milestone papers on the structure of DNA in "Nature", vols. 171 and …London, 1953.

    $10,329.00
  • [Portuguese Mission in Asia]. Compendio historico dos seminarios da India, e Makao, regidos pelos padres …No place, 1800-1805.

    $19,571.00
  • Petrini, Paolo. [Wall Maps of the World and Four Continents].Naples, ca. 1700.

    $521,883.00
  • Lafosse, Georges. Les Musulmans dans le monde.Paris, ca. 1952.

    $3,805.00