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 pour la lune et les 5 planètes". Autograph manuscript.Beijing, 1735.

    $30,244.00
  • Ibn al-Farid. Diwan Ibn al-Farid.No place, 1709 CE = 1121 H.

    $10,261.00
  • Andersen, Hans Christian, Danish poet (1805-1875). Lykke Peer. With autograph inscription signed.Copenhagen, 1870.

    $16,202.00
  • [World War II - British Armed Forces]. Scrapbook.Western Front and aboard HMS Mauritius, 1942-1947.

    $1,620.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Mao Zedong, Chinese statesman (1893-1976). Autograph album signed by Mao Zedong and Chou Enlai.Beijing, 8 Jan 1963.

    $270,035.00
  • [Astrological Volvelle]. [Dell' hore planetarie].Italy Genoa?, ca. 1650?.

    $13,502.00
  • Reichs-Marine-Amt. Segelhandbuch für den Persischen Golf.Berlin, 1907.

    $8,101.00
  • Rowling, J[oanne] K., English writer (b. 1965). Original miniature manuscript.N. p., 2004.

    $162,021.00