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

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

     350,000.00
  • Owen, Charles Henry. Sketches in the Crimea, Taken During the Late War.London, 1856.

     9,500.00
  • [Sumerian Foundation Cone]. Cuneiform foundation cone dating to the reign of Ishme-Dagan.Southern Mesopotamia, 1953-1935 BCE.

     9,500.00
  • Maggio, Francesco Maria. Vita, e morte del venerabil P. F. Alipio di S. Giuseppe Scalzo di S. Agostino …Rome, 1657.

     3,500.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Mann, Thomas, German writer and Nobel laureate (1875-1955). Typed letter signed.Zürich, 16 Jun 1949.

     4,500.00
  • [Palestine]. Album fotografico delle principali vedute della Palestina con apposite …Turin, 1870s, at least before 1878.

     8,500.00
  • [Biblia germanica - NT]. Luther, Martin. Das Newe Testament Mar. Luthers.Wittenberg, 1530.

     75,000.00
  • 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