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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

  • Eichendorff, Joseph Frh. von, German Romantic poet (1788-1857). "Der Friede. 1814." Autograph manuscript draft signed.No place, ca. 1814.

    $12,857.00

  • [Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani, Emir of Qatar (1932-2016)]. 5 original photographs.Qatar, ca. 1980s.

    $482.00

  • Kokoschka, Oskar, Maler, Graphiker und Schriftsteller (1886-1980). "Gespräch". Ms. Typoskript (Fragment) mit zahlreichen eigenh. Korrekturen, …O. O., 1962.

    $10,179.00

  • Bruce, James. Carte de la mer Rouge, relevée sur celle de James Bruce.Egypt, probably Cairo, 1827.

    $16,072.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

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

    $53,572.00

  • Chimani, Leopold. Bunte Scenerien aus dem Menschenleben. Ein Bilderbuch ganz neuer Art.Wien, 1836.

    $13,393.00

  • Schubert, Franz, composer (1797-1828). Collection of three engraved cores: Op. 1 (Erlkönig), 2 (Gretchen am Spinnrade), …Vienna, 1821-1827.

    $8,036.00

  • Tusi, Muhamad ibn Muhamad ibn al-Hasan al-. Kitab Uqlidis fi ilm al-handasa [An exposition on mathematics and geometry …Early Safavid Persia, first half of the 16th century.

    $48,215.00