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

  • Gaubil, Antoine, Jesuit missionary, astronomer, and historian at the Imperial Court in Beijing (1689-1759). "Catalogue pour la lune et les 5 planètes". Autograph manuscript.Beijing, 1735.

    $30,434.00
  • [Ibn Khalsun, Muhammad ibn Yusuf]. [Kitab al-aghdiya fi hifz al-sihha - On Nutrition and the Preservation …Paris, 1615.

    $48,912.00
  • Hemingway, Ernest, American writer and Nobel Laureate (1899-1961). Autograph letter signed.Paris, 6 November 1933.

    $16,304.00
  • Al-Bakri, Abu Ubayd Abdallah ibn Abdalaziz / Slane, William MacGuckin (ed.). [Kitab al-Mughrib fi dhikr bilad Ifriqiyah wa-al-Maghrib. Wa-huwa juz min …Alger, 1857.

    $1,630.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • 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.

    $103,258.00
  • Blaeu, Joan / Martini, Martinus. Novus Atlas Sinensis. Le Theatre du Monde, ou Nouvel Atlas […] Sixiesme …Amsterdam, 1655.

    $52,172.00
  • Strabo. [Strabonos geographikon bibloi hepta kai deka]. Strabonis rerum geographicarum …Basel, August 1571.

    $38,042.00
  • [Cabala]. Cabala, sive Scrinia Sacra, Mysteries of State and Government: in Letters …London, 1663.

    $4,891.00