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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

  • Ratzinger, Joseph (Benedikt XVI.), Theologe und Papst (1927-2022). Eigenh. Bildpostkarte mit U.Brixen, 9 Aug 2001.

    $857.00

  • Ginguené, Pierre Louis. Histoire littéraire d'Italie.Paris, 1811-1812.

    $375.00

  • Herzog, Maurice, French mountaineer (1919-2012). Typed letter signed.Paris, 19 Jun 1959.

    $375.00

  • Schels, Johann Baptist (Red.). Oestreichische militärische Zeitschrift. 1837.Wien, 1837.

    $536.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • [DNA structure]. Crick, Francis; Watson, James Dewey; and others. The milestone papers on the structure of DNA in "Nature", vols. 171 and …London, 1953.

    $10,179.00

  • Ptolemaeus, Claudius [translated by Angelus, Jacobus, edited by Germanus, Nicolaus]. [Russia, Black Sea] Octava Europe tabula.Ulm, 16 Jul 1482.

    $53,572.00

  • Malpiere, D. Bazin de. La Chine, moeurs, usages, costumes, arts et métiers, peines civiles et …Paris, 1825-1827.

    $48,215.00

  • Wittgenstein, Ludwig, Austrian philosopher (1889-1951). Autograph picture postcard signed.Cambridge, 28. II. 1929.

    $2,679.00