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.] - Huan, François, Vietnamese missionary (fl. 1750). Autograph document signed. Co-signed by the Vicar Apostolic of Western …Tonkin, 20 Dec 1750.

     4,000.00
  • 'Abd al-Wahid al-Marrakushi / Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (ed.). (Kitab al-Mu'jib fi talkhis akhbar ahl al-Maghrib). The history of the …Leyden, 1847.

     2,800.00
  • Beethoven, Ludwig van, composer (1770-1827). "Neue Liebe, Neues Leben". Autograph musical manuscript.Vienna, 1798-1799.

     350,000.00
  • Simpson, William / Kaye, John William. India Ancient and Modern. A Series of Illustrations of the Country and …London, 1867.

     95,000.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Celan, Paul, German-language poet (1920-1970). Todesfuge. Typescript signed ("Paul Celan").Probably Bucharest, c. 1946?.

     25,000.00
  • Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, Dichter (1749-1832). Autographa.Weimar, Dezember 1811.

     15,000.00
  • Engels, Friedrich, political theorist (1820-1895). Autograph letter signed ("Frédéric Engels").London, 11 Mar 1873.

     400,000.00
  • [Tridentinisches Konzil]. Orationes Tridentinae.Versch. Orte, 1562-1563.

     28,000.00