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

  • [Chinese rites controversy, Vicariate of Western Tonkin.] - Phan, François, Vietnamese missionary (fl. 1750). Autograph document signed. Co-signed by the Vicar Apostolic of Western …Tonkin, 16 Aug 1750.

    $2,712.00
  • Gerasch, F[ranz]. Das Oesterreichische Heer von Ferdinand II. Römisch Deutschen Kaiser, …Vienna, 1848-1856.

    $3,797.00
  • Tesla, Nikola, Serbian-American inventor (1856-1943). Autograph letter signed ("N. Tesla").New York, 26 Jan 1894.

    $27,122.00
  • Ghaznavi, Zaher al-Din Abul Muhammad ibn Masud al-. Kifayat al-ta'lim fi sina'at al-tanjim.Persia or Central Asia, 1708/09 CE = 1120 H.

    $10,306.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Sun Yat-sen, Chinese revolutionary, first president and founding father of the Republic of China (1866-1925). Autograph letter signed ("Y-S Sun").Canton Guangzhou, 29 Nov 1921.

    $162,732.00
  • Rilke, Rainer Maria, Dichter (1875-1926). Eigenh. Gedicht mit Widmung und U. in: Ders., Neue Gedichte.Leipzig, 1914.

    $10,306.00
  • Klimt, Gustav, Maler (1862-1918). Weiblicher Akt mit ausgestrecktem linkem Arm (Allegorie der Oper).Wien, 1883.

    $92,215.00
  • Nabokov, Vladimir. Lolita.Paris, August 1955.

    $4,882.00