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

  • Beethoven, Ludwig van, composer (1770-1827). "Neue Liebe, Neues Leben". Autograph musical manuscript.Vienna, 1798-1799.

     350,000.00
  • [Arabian Gulf]. Pelly, Lewis, et al. The Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society. From January 1863 …Bombay, 1865.

     95,000.00
  • [Pazzini]. Legal documents of the Pazzini family.Castel Corno, Isera, Rovereto, and other places, 1667-1717.

     2,500.00
  • Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan or The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-Wealth, Ecclesiasticall …London, 1651.

     45,000.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Firdawsi, Abu’l-Qasim. Shah Nameh [The Book of Kings].Northern India, 23 Jan. 1687 CE = 9 Rabi I 1098 H.

     45,000.00
  • Reichs-Marine-Amt. Segelhandbuch für den Persischen Golf.Berlin, 1907.

     7,500.00
  • Nabokov, Vladimir. Lolita.Paris, August 1955.

     4,500.00
  • Mao Zedong, Chinese statesman (1893-1976). Autograph inscription signed in: Mao Zedong, "Hsin min-chu-chu-i lun" ("On …No place, 1942.

     1,000,000.00