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.

    $4,343.00
  • [Occultism]. Occult Arabic manuscript.Middle East and Northern Africa, ca. 1800 / probably 18th or early 19th c.

    $7,057.00
  • Watson, James, Molekularbiologe und Nobelpreisträger (geb. 1928). Albumblatt mit eigenh. U.O. O. u. D.

    $239.00
  • [World War II - British Armed Forces]. Scrapbook.Western Front and aboard HMS Mauritius, 1942-1947.

    $1,628.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Schubert, Franz, composer (1797-1828). [Variations on a French Song, op. 10, D. 624 (fragment)]. Autograph musical …Vienna, September 1818.

    $103,137.00
  • [Ephemerides] - Martin de Ath, Jean. Ephemerides meteorologicae anni bisextilis, 1572 horizonti Brabantico: …Antwerp, 1571.

    $3,040.00
  • Engels, Friedrich, political theorist (1820-1895). Autograph letter signed ("Frédéric Engels").London, 11 Mar 1873.

    $434,260.00
  • 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.

    $48,854.00