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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

  • Freud, Lucian, British painter and draughtsman (1922-2011). Autograph letter signed.4 Delamere Terrace, London, ca. 1960.

    $3,808.00

  • Tagore, Sourindro Mohun. Tárávatí: a Tale, translated into English.Calcutta, 1881.

    $4,896.00

  • Grolman, Karl Ludwig Wilhelm von, Jurist und Ministerpräsident (1775-1829). Gedr. Formularbrief mit hs. Eintragungen und eigenh. U. sowie hs. Dokument …Magdeburg, 21. VIII. 1821 und 10. III. 1823.

    $239.00

  • Ali ibn al-Abbas al-Majusi, Ala al-Din (Haly Abbas). Liber totius medicine necessaria.Lyon, 1523.

    $34,815.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, poet (1749-1832). "Die Feier des siebenten Novembers 1825 | Dankbar zu erwiedern [!]". Broadsheet …No place, 1832.

    $4,896.00

  • Friedell, Egon, Schriftsteller (1878-1938). Eigenh. Brief mit U.Wien, 20. IX. 1922.

    $1,034.00

  • [Ships Logs] - F. R. Openshaw, Royal Navy midshipman (fl. 1900s). "Log of H. M. Ships Highflyer & Hyacinth". Autograph manuscript logs …Indian Ocean and the Gulf, 1902-1904.

    $103,356.00

  • [Astronomy]. Astronomical manuscript in Arabic.No place, late 18th century ca. 1785 CE / 1200 H.

    $13,600.00