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

  • Gaubil, Antoine, Jesuit missionary, astronomer, and historian at the Imperial Court in Beijing (1689-1759). "Catalogue Chinois des Étoiles". Autograph manuscript.Beijing, 1734.

    $133,930.00
  • [Jesuit prayer book]. Magnis, Giovanni Pietro, Italo-Austrian physician (1558-1618). Septem psalmi poenitentiales & aliae devotae orationes.Probably Vienna, 1601.

    $37,500.00
  • Henry, Joseph, American scientist (1797-1878). Letter signed.Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, 2 Nov 1859.

    $911.00
  • Boccaccio, Giovanni. Il Filocopo […] Di nuovo riveduto, corretto, & alla sua vera lettione …Venice, 1554.

    $2,411.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Klimt, Gustav, painter (1862-1918). Portrait photograph inscribed and signed.Probably Vienna, no date.

    $128,573.00
  • [Hinduism]. Illuminated Hinduistic manuscript.India, early 19th century.

    $10,179.00
  • [Qur'an Juz' - China]. An illuminated Qur'an, Juz' XX, written in Beijing by a Muslim woman.Khanbaliq Cambaluc, Beijing, 10 Nov. 1623 CE = 17 Muharram 1033 H.

    $133,930.00
  • Humperdinck, Engelbert, Komponist (1854-1921). Eigenh. Postkarte mit U.O. O., 5 Aug 1942.

    $429.00