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

  • [Roman inked wooden tablet]. Roman inked wooden tablet.Roman Empire, 4th century CE.

    $103,241.00
  • Lees, G[eorge] M[artin]. Persia.Oxford, 1953.

    $380.00
  • Burton, Richard Francis, English explorer and diplomat (1821-1890). 10 autograph letters signed and one autograph postcard signed ("R.F. Burton", …London, Trieste and Geneva, 27 May 1882 to 12 May 1884, 8 November 1888, and no date.

    $48,904.00
  • [Ethiopian Divinatory Text]. Awda Nagast [The Circle of the King].Ethiopia, late 18th or early 19th century CE.

    $10,324.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • 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.

    $48,904.00
  • Breydenbach, Bernhard von. [Peregrinatio in terram sanctam, germanice:] Dis buch ist innhaltend die …Speyer, between 1502 and 1505.

    $201,049.00
  • Haydn, Joseph. Ariana a Naxos. Cantata a Voce Sola. Accompagnata col Clavicembalo o Forte-Piano.London, Juni 1791.

    $16,301.00
  • Reichs-Marine-Amt. Segelhandbuch für den Persischen Golf.Berlin, 1907.

    $8,151.00