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 Chinois des Étoiles". Autograph manuscript.Beijing, 1734.

     125,000.00
  • Nizami Ganjavi. Iqbal-nama.Safavid Iran, 1562-1571 CE.

     25,000.00
  • Buck, Pearl S., American novelist, Nobel laureate (1892-1973). Typed letter signed ("Pearl S. Buck").Perkasie, Pennsylvania, 3 Nov 1952.

     400.00
  • [Palestine]. [Photograph album].Palestine, ca. 1890s.

     1,800.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Firdawsi, Abu’l-Qasim. Shah Nameh [The Book of Kings].Northern India, 23 Jan. 1687 CE = 9 Rabi I 1098 H.

     45,000.00
  • Kauffmann, Angelika, painter (1741-1807). Autograph letter signed.Rome, 18 Nov 1792.

     9,500.00
  • Yuhanna (Yahya) Abu Zakariya ibn Masawaih (Mesue). De re medica, libri tres. Jacobo Sylvio medico interprete.Paris, 1544.

     28,000.00
  • [La Pira, Gioacchino, Italian painter (active 1839-1870) - attrib.]. A group of nineteen masterly gouaches of Naples and surroundings from the …Naples, ca. 1855-1866.

     200,000.00