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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

  • Kokoschka, Oskar, Maler, Graphiker und Schriftsteller (1886-1980). "Gespräch". Ms. Typoskript (Fragment) mit zahlreichen eigenh. Korrekturen, …O. O., 1962.

    $10,159.00

  • Khalidi, Thabet. The Rising Tide of Terror, or Three Years of an "Armistice" in the Holy …Amman, Jordan, February, 1952.

    $2,673.00

  • Liszt, Franz, composer (1811-1886). Autograph letter signed.No place, ca. 1833.

    $6,951.00

  • [Arabian Sea]. Arabian Sea. Chart No. 143. East Sheet.London, 1896.

    $4,812.00

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.

    $48,123.00

  • [Biblia germanica - NT]. Luther, Martin. Das Newe Testament Mar. Luthers.Wittenberg, 1530.

    $80,205.00

  • Schönberg, Arnold, Austrian composer (1874-1951). Autograph letter signed and autogr. quotation signed.Los Angeles, 15 May 1949.

    $2,994.00

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

    $1,604.00