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

  • Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom (1819-1901). Autograph letter.Osborne House Isle of Wight, 7 Aug 1861.

     2,200.00
  • Ibn Sallum, Salih ibn Nasrallah al-Halabi. Al-tibb al-jadid al-kimiya'i alladhi ikhtara'ahu Barakalsus [The New Chemical …Ottoman Provinces, 1 Dec. 1732 CE = 13 Jumada II 1145 H.

     35,000.00
  • Palmerston (3rd Viscount), Henry John Temple, British Prime Minister (1784-1865). Letter signed.London, Foreign Office, 14 Aug 1838.

     3,000.00
  • [Ottoman state newspaper]. Takvim-i Vekayi'. Issues 201-400.Istanbul, 1840-1849 CE = 1256-1265 H.

     4,500.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Ali Riza Effendi, First Lieutenant in the Ottoman Army. Medine-i Münevvere Civarlarina Memuriyet Hatirasi [Memoirs of public service …Ottoman Empire, Syria and Hejaz, Sept./Oct. 1916 CE = Eylül 1332 Rumi Calendar.

     15,000.00
  • Waldstein, Johann Karl, Graf, österr.-böhmischer Adeliger (1707-1774). [Philosophia scholastico-ethica, fulgidissimis Habspurgico-Austriacorum …Prag, 1726.

     280.00
  • Mao Zedong, Chinese statesman (1893-1976). Autograph inscription signed in: Mao Zedong, "Hsin min-chu-chu-i lun" ("On …No place, 1942.

     1,000,000.00
  • [Cabala]. Cabala, sive Scrinia Sacra, Mysteries of State and Government: in Letters …London, 1663.

     4,500.00