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

  • Kipling, Rudyard, English novelist and short story writer (1865-1936). Eight autograph and typed letters, signed.Various, 3 October 1918 - 23 June 1935.

    $16,288.00
  • Tughrai, al-Husayn ibn Ali al-. Poema Tograi, ex versione latina Jacobii Golii, cum scholiis et notis. …Franeker, 1769.

    $2,715.00
  • Beethoven, Ludwig van, composer (1770-1827). "Neue Liebe, Neues Leben". Autograph musical manuscript.Vienna, 1798-1799.

    $380,052.00
  • [Muslim astrology]. [Persian astrological manuscript].No place, ca. 19th century CE.

    $1,955.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Yuhanna (Yahya) Abu Zakariya ibn Masawaih (Mesue). De re medica, libri tres. Jacobo Sylvio medico interprete.Paris, 1544.

    $30,404.00
  • Klimt, Gustav, painter (1862-1918). Portrait photograph inscribed and signed.Probably Vienna, no date.

    $130,304.00
  • La Fontaine, Jean de, French writer (1621-1695). Autograph document signed "De la fontaine".No place, 5 Jan 1660.

    $16,288.00
  • Rowling, J[oanne] K., English writer (b. 1965). Original miniature manuscript.N. p., 2004.

    $162,880.00