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

  • K'ieou, Pierre, Chinese Jesuit (1686 - after 1744). Autograph document signed in Chinese.Zhujiajiao Qingpu District, Shanghai, 29 May 1744.

     5,000.00
  • Shirazi, Qutb al-Din Mahmud al- / (Ibn Sina [Avicenna]). Al-Tuhfat al-Sa‘diya fi-t-tibb [Sa‘d’s gift to medicine].Persia, 17th century CE.

     25,000.00
  • Goethe, Johann Wolfgang v., Dichter (1749-1832). Eigenh. Brief mit U.Jena, 14 Sep 1823.

     25,000.00
  • Ghaffar, Al-Sayyid Abd al-. [Praying around the Kaaba].Mecca, ca. 1887.

     4,800.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Einstein, Albert, German physicist and Nobel laureate (1879-1955). Autograph manuscript for "Bivector Fields II" (1944).N. p. o. d.

     45,000.00
  • Engels, Friedrich, political theorist (1820-1895). Autograph letter signed ("Frédéric Engels").London, 11 Mar 1873.

     400,000.00
  • Duse, Eleonora, singer and actress (1858-1924). Autograph letter signed.Vienna, 29 Nov 1899.

     800.00
  • Reichs-Marine-Amt. Segelhandbuch für den Persischen Golf.Berlin, 1907.

     7,500.00