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

  • Celan, Paul, Romanian born German-language poet (1920-1970). "Chanson einer Dame im Schatten". Autograph poem signed ("Paul Celan").Paris, August 1949.

     15,000.00
  • [Biblia syriaca - NT]. The Gospels in Syriac.Lebanon, ca. 1790s CE.

     35,000.00
  • Mann, Thomas, German writer and Nobel laureate (1875-1955). Typed letter signed.Munich, 3 Mar 1927.

     1,800.00
  • Bergheim, Peter. Views of Jerusalem and Environs.Jerusalem, late 1860s.

     35,000.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Boniface VIII, Pope (ca 1230-1303). Letter of indulgence for the church "Beati Nicolai" at the monastery of …St Peter, Rome, 1298.

     25,000.00
  • [La Pira, Gioacchino, Italian painter (active 1839-1870) - attrib.]. A group of ten masterly gouaches of Naples and surroundings from the collection …Naples, ca. 1855-1866.

     125,000.00
  • [Ludwig Salvator]. Cannosa.Prag, 1897.

     250.00
  • 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.

     95,000.00