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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.

    $133,810.00

  • [Survey of Palestine]. Palestine Survey Maps.Jerusalem?, 1948-1951.

    $1,927.00

  • [Trucial States - Sultan bin Saqr Al Qasimi]. Two early documents.Sharjah and Ras Al-Khaimah, 1943 and 1966.

    $16,057.00

  • [Ge'ez]. [Ge'ez healing scroll].Ethiopia or Eritrea, 19th century.

    $1,606.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Wittgenstein, Ludwig, Austrian philosopher (1889-1951). Autograph picture postcard signed.Cambridge, 28. II. 1929.

    $2,676.00

  • [Schmidt - Southern German weaving mill]. Weaving pattern book.Probably Künzelsau Hohenlohe, first half of 19th century.

    $4,068.00

  • Schiele, Egon, Maler (1890-1918). Eigenh. Bildpostkarte mit U.Kovácspatak bei Budapest, 29 Jul 1918.

    $12,846.00

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

    $128,458.00