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

  • Lilienthal, Otto, Flugpionier (1848-1896). Eigenh. Brief mit U.Berlin, 29 Apr 1890.

     12,000.00
  • Ibn Sina (Avicenna). Al-Qanun fi al-Tibb [The Canon of Medicine].Eastern Mediterranean, 17th century dated 800 H / 1397/98 in colophon, likely copying the earlier date of a source manuscript.

     135,000.00
  • Ratzinger, Joseph (Benedikt XVI.), Theologe und Papst (1927-2022). Gedr. Billett mit mehreren eigenh. Zeilen und U.O. O. u. D.

     650.00
  • Mir Amman Dihlavi. Bagh o Bahar [Garden and Spring].India, likely Delhi, 19th century

     18,000.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Celan, Paul, German-language poet (1920-1970). Todesfuge. Typescript signed ("Paul Celan").Probably Bucharest, c. 1946?.

     25,000.00
  • Ferdinand I., röm.-dt. Kaiser (1503-1564), hier noch als Erzherzog. Gewaltbrief mit eigenh. U.Wien, 4 Nov 1526.

     6,500.00
  • Engels, Friedrich, political theorist (1820-1895). Autograph letter signed ("Frédéric Engels").London, 11 Mar 1873.

     400,000.00
  • Gauguin, Paul, French painter (1848-1903). Autograph letter signed "Paul Gauguin".Tahiti, July 1901.

     75,000.00