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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

  • Jung, C[arl] G[ustav], Psychologe und Psychiater (1875-1961). Ms. Brief mit eigenh. U.Küsnacht-Zürich, 10 May 1948.

    $2,717.00

  • Owen, Charles Henry. Sketches in the Crimea, Taken During the Late War.London, 1856.

    $10,324.00

  • [Subscription receipt for the Lexicon heptaglotton]. Printed blank form completed in ink and signed by Edmund Castell (Semitic …London, 2 May 1664.

    $2,717.00

  • Lawrence, D[avid] H[erbert]. Lady Chatterley's Lover.Florence, 1928.

    $6,520.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Montaigne, Michel de. Essais de Messire Michel Seigneur de Montaigne, Chevalier de l'Ordre du …Bordeaux, 1580.

    $489,037.00

  • [Mattioli, Pietro Andrea]. Original large-format woodblock of Aquilegia vulgaris (columbine).Prague, ca. 1562.

    $13,584.00

  • [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.

    $217,350.00

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

    $3,043.00