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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

  • Osswald, Erwin, General der Wehrmacht (1882-1947). Eigenh. Brief mit U.Bad Tölz, 17 Jul 1936.

    $380.00

  • [Alken, Henry]. Going to Epsom Races. A Ludicrious Amusement Consisting of Modern Costume, …London, 1819.

    $13,571.00

  • Payer, Julius Rt. von, Kartograph und Polarforscher (1842-1915). Eigenh. Brief mit U.Wien, Beatrixgasse, 14 Jan 1893.

    $706.00

  • [World War I]. Macandrew, Henry John Milnes, British Indian Army officer (1866-1919). 5th Cavalry Division. Narrative of Operations.5th Cavalry Division Headquarters, 2 Nov 1918.

    $1,629.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • [Hinduism]. Sanskrit scroll.India, Rajasthan, 19th century.

    $3,800.00

  • Lenin (Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov), revolutionary, Marxist thinker, founder of the Soviet Union (1870-1924). Autograph inscription signed, together with Leon Trotsky.No place or date, November 1917.

    $103,139.00

  • Einstein, Albert, German physicist and Nobel laureate (1879-1955). Autograph manuscript for "Bivector Fields II" (1944).N. p. o. d.

    $48,855.00

  • Haydn, Joseph. Ariana a Naxos. Cantata a Voce Sola. Accompagnata col Clavicembalo o Forte-Piano.London, Juni 1791.

    $16,285.00