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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

  • Matisse, Henri, French artist (1869-1954). Portrait postcard inscribed and signed.No place, 12 Mar 1942.

    $6,964.00

  • [Fifth Arab Petroleum Congress]. Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation. Al-Batrul [Petroleum Magazine].Cairo, March 1965.

    $321.00

  • Kokoschka, Oskar, Maler, Graphiker und Schriftsteller (1886-1980). 3 eigenh. Briefe mit U. ("OK").Cornwall und o. O., 1939/1940.

    $6,964.00

  • [Sri Lanka - palm leaf book]. [Sinhalese palm-leaf manuscript].Sri Lanka, 19th century.

    $1,607.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Blanckenhorn, [Prof. Dr. Max]. Die Hedschaz-Bahn auf Grund eigener Reisestudien.Berlin, 1907.

    $3,750.00

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

    $37,500.00

  • Wittgenstein, Ludwig, Austrian philosopher (1889-1951). Autograph picture postcard signed.Cambridge, 28. II. 1929.

    $2,679.00

  • [Saudi Arabia - Aramco]. Warner, Daniel Warren Brickell, American architect (1914-2005). Housing studies for Aramco.Rome, 1952-1954.

    $6,964.00