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

  • [Chinese rites controversy, Vicariate of Western Tonkin.] - Phan, François, Vietnamese missionary (fl. 1750). Autograph document signed. Co-signed by the Vicar Apostolic of Western …Tonkin, 16 Aug 1750.

     2,500.00
  • Mansur ibn Ilyas. Tashrih-i Mansuri [Mansur's Anatomy].Persia, 19th century.

     45,000.00
  • Goethe, Johann Wolfgang v., Dichter (1749-1832). Eigenh. Brief mit U.Jena, 14 Sep 1823.

     25,000.00
  • Sauvaire, H[enry] / J. de Rey-Pailhade. Sur une mère d'astrolabe Arabe du XIIIe siècle (609 de l'Hégire) portant …Paris, 1893.

     450.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Mann, Thomas, German writer and Nobel laureate (1875-1955). Typed letter signed.Zürich, 16 Jun 1949.

     4,500.00
  • Klimt, Gustav, painter (1862-1918). Portrait photograph inscribed and signed.Probably Vienna, no date.

     120,000.00
  • Klimt, Gustav, Maler (1862-1918). Weiblicher Akt mit ausgestrecktem linkem Arm (Allegorie der Oper).Wien, 1883.

     85,000.00
  • Al-Qabisi, Abu Al Saqr 'Abd Al-'Aziz Ibn 'Uthman Ibn 'Ali (Alchabitius). Libellus isagogicus (Al-madkhal), with the commentary of Johannes de Saxonia …Likely Germany Limburg an der Lahn, 1500-1524.

     165,000.00