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

  • Safi al-Din al-Kilani, Arabic physician (d. 1010 H / 1601 CE). Mughni al-Ahibba' wa Manhaj al-Atibba' fi al-Tibb [The Enricher of the …Mecca, 10-18 August 1592 CE = 2-10 Dhu'l-Qa'dah 1000 H.

     140,000.00
  • [Biblia syriaca - NT]. The Gospels in Syriac.Lebanon, ca. 1790s CE.

     35,000.00
  • Siebert, Johann, Bohemian physician, mathematician, and Jesuit missionary in Vietnam (1708-1745). Autograph document signed. Co-signed by the Jesuit provincial of Japan, …Vietnam, 1746-1749.

     3,000.00
  • [Arabian Gulf]. Pelly, Lewis, et al. The Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society. From January 1863 …Bombay, 1865.

     95,000.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Lenin (Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov), revolutionary, Marxist thinker, founder of the Soviet Union (1870-1924). Autograph inscription signed, together with Leon Trotsky.No place or date, November 1917.

     95,000.00
  • Friedell, Egon, Schriftsteller (1878-1938). Eigenh. Brief mit U.Wien, 20. IX. 1922.

     950.00
  • [Zanzibar]. The Gazette for Zanzibar.Zanzibar, 1912-13, 1918 and 1920.

     25,000.00
  • [Palestine]. Album fotografico delle principali vedute della Palestina con apposite …Turin, 1870s, at least before 1878.

     8,500.00