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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

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

    $706.00

  • [Falconry]. Collection of ten original watercolours showing falcons.Probably Scandinavia, c. 1840.

    $16,301.00

  • [Wiener Künstler des frühen 20. Jhdts.]. Albumblatt mit 20 eigenh. U. von namhaften Musikern, Malern und Schriftstellern.Österreich, um 1920.

    $1,630.00

  • Bellen, R. C. van. The Stratigraphy of the Main Limestone of the Kirkuk, Bai Hassan, and Qarah …London, 1956.

    $924.00

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What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Klimt, Gustav, Maler (1862-1918). Weiblicher Akt mit ausgestrecktem linkem Arm (Allegorie der Oper).Wien, 1883.

    $92,374.00

  • Mao Zedong, Chinese statesman (1893-1976). Autograph inscription signed in: Mao Zedong, "Hsin min-chu-chu-i lun" ("On …No place, 1942.

    $1,086,750.00

  • [Hinduism]. Illuminated Hinduistic manuscript.India, early 19th century.

    $10,324.00

  • Vesalius, Andreas. De humani corporis fabrica libri septem.Basel, June 1543.

    $380,362.00