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

  • Pedrini, Teodorico, Italian missionary, musician, and composer at the Imperial Court in Beijing (1671-1746). Autograph document signed. Co-signed by the bishop of Beijing, Polycarpo …Beijing, 1642-1646.

     3,000.00
  • Husami al-Din Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Akhsikathi. Al-Husami [Al-Muntakhab fi Usul al-Madhhab].Uzbekistan or China, 1385 CE = 787 H.

     40,000.00
  • [Mesopotamian clay tablet]. Mesopotamian cuneiform clay tablet.Mesopotamia, early 2nd millennium BCE.

     8,500.00
  • Trans-Arabian Pipeline Company. Tablayn [Tapline].Lebanon, 1950s.

     850.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • [United Arab Emirates]. Photograph of Sheikh Zayed raising the flag of independence at al-Diyafah …Dubai, 2 Dec 1971.

     35,000.00
  • [Ludwig Salvator]. Cannosa.Prag, 1897.

     250.00
  • Schubert, Franz, composer (1797-1828). Collection of three engraved cores: Op. 1 (Erlkönig), 2 (Gretchen am Spinnrade), …Vienna, 1821-1827.

     7,500.00
  • [Slave Trade]. Instructions for the Guidance of the Captains and Commanding Officers of …London, 1892.

     35,000.00