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

  • Pedrini, Teodorico, Italian missionary, musician, and composer at the Imperial Court in Beijing (1671-1746). Autograph letter signed.Jehol Chengde, 20 Oct 1714.

    $13,393.00
  • Mir Amman Dihlavi. Bagh o Bahar [Garden and Spring].India, likely Delhi, 19th century

    $19,286.00
  • Ratzinger, Joseph (Benedikt XVI.), Theologe und Papst (1927-2022). Gedr. Billett mit 4 eigenh. Zeilen und U.O. O., wohl Dezember 2001.

    $643.00
  • Caussin de Perceval, A[rmand] P[ierre]. Essai sur l'histoire des Arabes avant l'islamisme, pendant l'époque de …Paris, 1847.

    $4,821.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Schubert, Franz, composer (1797-1828). [Variations on a French Song, op. 10, D. 624 (fragment)]. Autograph musical …Vienna, September 1818.

    $101,787.00
  • [Thuroczy, Janos]. Der Hungern Chronica inhaltend wie sie anfengklich ins land kommen sind, …Vienna, 1534.

    $9,107.00
  • Sun Yat-sen, Chinese revolutionary, first president and founding father of the Republic of China (1866-1925). Autograph letter signed ("Y-S Sun").Canton Guangzhou, 29 Nov 1921.

    $160,716.00
  • Boniface VIII, Pope (ca 1230-1303). Letter of indulgence for the church "Beati Nicolai" at the monastery of …St Peter, Rome, 1298.

    $26,786.00