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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

  • [Mesopotamian clay tablet]. Mesopotamian cuneiform clay tablet.Mesopotamia, early 2nd millennium BCE.

    $9,228.00

  • [Hydrographic Office]. [UK Admiralty Charts: The Arabian Gulf].London, 1967.

    $2,171.00

  • Payer, Julius Rt. von, Kartograph und Polarforscher (1842-1915). Eigenh. Brief mit U.Wien, Beatrixgasse, 14 Jan 1893.

    $706.00

  • Puzo, Mario. The Godfather.New York, 1969.

    $2,714.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • [Astronomy]. Astronomical manuscript in Arabic.No place, late 18th century ca. 1785 CE / 1200 H.

    $13,571.00

  • Waldemar, Prince of Prussia. Zur Erinnerung an die Reise des Prinzen Waldemar von Preussen nach Indien …Berlin, 1853.

    $41,255.00

  • [Zanzibar]. The Gazette for Zanzibar.Zanzibar, 1912-13, 1918 and 1920.

    $27,141.00

  • Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, poet (1749-1832). "Die Feier des siebenten Novembers 1825 | Dankbar zu erwiedern [!]". Broadsheet …No place, 1832.

    $4,885.00