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.

    $135,995.00
  • Watson, James D., American Nobel laureate, molecular biologist, and geneticist (b. 1928). DNA: The Secret of Life.New York, 2003.

    $1,088.00
  • Stanley, Henry Morton, African explorer (1841-1904). Clipped signature.N. p. o. d.

    $653.00
  • Tucholsky, Kurt, German writer (1890-1935). Fromme Gesänge von Theobald Tiger. Mit einer Vorrede von Ignaz Wrobel.Berlin-Charlottenburg, 1919.

    $13,056.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Mao Zedong, Chinese statesman (1893-1976). Autograph inscription signed in: Mao Zedong, "Hsin min-chu-chu-i lun" ("On …No place, 1942.

    $1,087,962.00
  • [Ephemerides] - Martin de Ath, Jean. Ephemerides meteorologicae anni bisextilis, 1572 horizonti Brabantico: …Antwerp, 1571.

    $3,046.00
  • [Polanco, Juan Alfonso, SJ]. Izpravnik za erei ispovidnici, i za pokornik.Rome, 1635.

    $13,600.00
  • Allaeus, Franciscus. Astrologiae Nova Methodus. Francisci Allaei, Arabis Christiani.Rennes, 1654-1655.

    $81,597.00