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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

  • Celan, Paul, Romanian born German-language poet (1920-1970). "Chanson einer Dame im Schatten". Autograph poem signed ("Paul Celan").Paris, August 1949.

    € 15,000.00

  • Arab Union of Petroleum Workers. Al-Batrul al-'Arabi. [Arab Petroleum].Cairo, February 1963.

    € 250.00

  • Herzmanovsky-Orlando, Fritz, Schriftsteller und Zeichner (1877-1954). Eigenh. Brief mit U.Schloss Rametz, Meran, 27 Feb 1954.

    € 2,500.00

  • [Abu Dhabi]. Geological map of Abu Dhabi.Abu Dhabi, 1970s.

    € 3,500.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Mahler-Werfel, Alma, Komponistin und Schriftstellerin (1879-1964). Eigenh. Brief mit U.New York, 13 Nov 1947.

    € 2,400.00

  • [Slave Trade]. Instructions for the Guidance of the Captains and Commanding Officers of …London, 1892.

    € 35,000.00

  • Chimani, Leopold. Bunte Scenerien aus dem Menschenleben. Ein Bilderbuch ganz neuer Art.Wien, 1836.

    € 12,500.00

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

    € 45,000.00