Our catalogue for Firsts - London's Rare Book Fair

Download complete pdf catalogue (8 MB)

Our pdf catalogue (22 MB) for the Abu Dhabi Book Fair

Download complete pdf (8 MB)

Free shipping worldwide extended to all registered customers

Set up your account today or choose a password after placing your first order

Serving the great universities, museums, and national libraries worldwide

Gift Ideas

Unconditional guarantee of authenticity

All items guaranteed as described

All shipments fully insured and trackable door-to-door

Exhibiting at fairs internationally

An international team of experts to answer your questions

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

  • [Mesopotamian clay tablet]. Mesopotamian cuneiform clay tablet.Mesopotamia, early 2nd millennium BCE.

    $9,248.00

  • Owen, Charles Henry. Sketches in the Crimea, Taken During the Late War.London, 1856.

    $10,336.00

  • Waroquier, Henry de, French painter (1881-1970). Autograph letter signed.Paris, 5 Dec 1956.

    $239.00

  • [Arabian Gulf]. Pelly, Lewis, et al. The Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society. From January 1863 …Bombay, 1865.

    $103,356.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • [Hauslab, Franz von]. Darstellung der K. K. Oesterreichischen Armee mit allen Chargen [...].Vienna, 1823.

    $10,336.00

  • [United Arab Emirates]. Photograph of Sheikh Zayed raising the flag of independence at al-Diyafah …Dubai, 2 Dec 1971.

    $38,079.00

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

    $130,555.00

  • Hoffmann, E. T. A., writer (1776-1822). Autograph letter signed ("Hoffmann").Berlin, 21 Jul 1816.

    $30,463.00