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

  • Lear, Edward, English artist and poet (1812-1888). Autograph letter signed ("Edward Lear").Stratford Place, Oxford Street, London, 6 Mar 1861.

    $1,932.00
  • [Ottoman Atlas]. Manuscript map album of the Ottoman Empire.Ottoman Empire, ca. 1910.

    $9,124.00
  • Beethoven, Ludwig van, composer (1770-1827). Autograph sketchleaf for op. 117, "König Stephan" ("Ungarns erster Wohltäter").Teplitz, 1811.

    $375,704.00
  • Sauvaget, Jean. Les Monuments historiques de Damas.Beirut, 1932.

    $376.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Zweig, Stefan. Die frühen Kränze.Leipzig, 1906.

    $1,932.00
  • [Portuguese Mission in Asia]. Compendio historico dos seminarios da India, e Makao, regidos pelos padres …No place, 1800-1805.

    $19,322.00
  • [La Pira, Gioacchino, Italian painter (active 1839-1870) - attrib.]. A group of nineteen masterly gouaches of Naples and surroundings from the …Naples, ca. 1855-1866.

    $214,688.00
  • [Logbook of HMS Effingham in the Gulf]. Larken, Francis Wyatt Rawson, Royal Navy officer (1911-1985). Unpublished manuscript journal of a British voyage to the Gulf, containing …Middle East, mainly Arabian Peninsula, Persia, Africa, and India, 1928-1931, with additional material to 1951.

    $155,649.00