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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

  • Gil de Frederich y Sans, Francesco, Saint, Spanish Dominican missionary in Vietnam (1702-1745). Document with 5 autograph lines signed.Tonkin Hanoi, 5 Jul 1744.

    $2,717.00

  • [Qur'an]. Manuscript Qur'an.Kashmir, 19th century CE.

    $10,324.00

  • Boyer de Cremilles, Louis Hyacinthe, French general (1700-1768). Letter signed.Versailles, 13 Jul 1759.

    $543.00

  • Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan or The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-Wealth, Ecclesiasticall …London, 1651.

    $48,904.00

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What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Ibrâhim Haqqi, Erzurumlu. Marifetname [The Book of Knowledge and Skills].Ottoman Empire, 1235 AH 1819/20 AD.

    $30,429.00

  • Brentano, Franz, Philosoph und Psychologe (1838-1917). Eigenh. Brief mit U.Aschaffenburg, 6 Feb 1874.

    $489.00

  • Hoffmann, E. T. A., writer (1776-1822). Autograph letter signed ("Hoffmann").Berlin, 21 Jul 1816.

    $30,429.00

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

    $92,374.00