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

  • Pedrini, Teodorico, Italian missionary, musician, and composer at the Imperial Court in Beijing (1671-1746). Autograph document signed. Co-signed by the bishop of Beijing, Polycarpo …Beijing, 1642-1646.

     3,000.00
  • Nizami Ganjavi. Iqbal-nama.Safavid Iran, 1562-1571 CE = 970s H.

     25,000.00
  • Reymond, Claude-François de, French missionary in China and Vicar Apostolic of Sichuan (1720-1756). Autograph document signed. Co-signed by Pierre Lacerre, designated Vicar …N. p., 14 Feb 1756.

     2,800.00
  • Leupold, Jacob. Theatrum machinarum.Leipzig, 1724-1727.

     25,000.00

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.

     50,000.00
  • [U.S. Air Force / NASA]. Lunar Astronautical Charts.St. Louis, Missouri, 1962-1967.

     15,000.00
  • 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