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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

  • Kipling, Rudyard, English poet and novelist, Nobel laureate (1865-1936). Autograph letter signed ("Rudyard Kipling").London, 20 Sep 1907.

    $3,747.00

  • [Albumen photograph collage]. Photograph album.Possibly Sweden, ca. 1870s.

    $4,817.00

  • Kafka, Franz, Schriftsteller (1883-1924). Briefkuvert mit eigenh. Adresse und Absender.Liboch, Datum des Poststempels unleserlich Anfang 1919.

    $11,240.00

  • [Qur'an - excerpts]. Warner, Levin. Compendium historicum eorum quae Muhammedani de Christo et praecipuis aliquot …Leiden, 1643.

    $4,817.00

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What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Rowling, J[oanne] K., English writer (b. 1965). Original miniature manuscript.N. p., 2004.

    $160,572.00

  • Gauguin, Paul, French painter (1848-1903). Autograph letter signed "Paul Gauguin".Tahiti, July 1901.

    $80,286.00

  • [Biblia arabica - NT]. Evangelium Sanctum Domini nostri Iesu Christi conscriptum a quatuor Evangelistis …Rome, 1590-1591.

    $29,973.00

  • [Romanova, Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia, Grand Duchesses of Russia]. Signed original photograph of the four daughters of Czar Nicholas II.Likely St. Petersburg, 1916.

    $101,696.00