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

  • Gaubil, Antoine, Jesuit missionary, astronomer, and historian at the Imperial Court in Beijing (1689-1759). "Catalogue Chinois des Étoiles". Autograph manuscript.Beijing, 1734.

    $133,930.00
  • Mansur ibn Ilyas. Tashrih-i Mansuri [Mansur's Anatomy].Persia, 19th century.

    $48,215.00
  • Einstein, Albert, German-born physicist and Nobel laureate (1879-1955). Typed letter signed ("A. Einstein").Princeton, New Jersey, 14 Feb 1955.

    $23,572.00
  • Quintilianus, Marcus Fabius. [De institutione oratoria].Florence, October 1515.

    $4,232.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Lenin (Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov), revolutionary, Marxist thinker, founder of the Soviet Union (1870-1924). Autograph inscription signed, together with Leon Trotsky.No place or date, November 1917.

    $101,787.00
  • Chimani, Leopold. Bunte Scenerien aus dem Menschenleben. Ein Bilderbuch ganz neuer Art.Wien, 1836.

    $13,393.00
  • [Football Collection]. An Outstanding Collection of Books About Football, Removed From the Library …Various places, 1580-2014.

    $375,004.00
  • Wodehouse, P[elham] G[renville], English writer (1881-1975). Autograph letter signed.Le Touquet, 12 Feb 1936.

    $1,607.00