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

  • [Mesopotamian clay tablet]. Mesopotamian cuneiform clay tablet.Mesopotamia, early 2nd millennium BCE.

    $9,228.00
  • [Karl, Archduke of Austria, Duke of Teschen]. Grundsätze der höhern Kriegskunst und Beyspiele ihrer zweckmässigen …Vienna, 1808.

    $10,314.00
  • Palmerston (3rd Viscount), Henry John Temple, British Prime Minister (1784-1865). Letter signed.London, Foreign Office, 14 Aug 1838.

    $3,257.00
  • [Zimbabwe (Southern Rhodesia)]. [Photograph album of the British South Africa Police].Zimbabwe, 1920s.

    $2,714.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Mao Zedong, Chinese statesman (1893-1976). Autograph inscription signed in: Mao Zedong, "Hsin min-chu-chu-i lun" ("On …No place, 1942.

    $1,085,650.00
  • Tahtawi, Rifa`ah Rafi` / Besim, Rüstem (transl.). Seyahatname-i Ibn Rifaa [Tercüme-yi Seyahatnâme-yi Pâris - The travelogue …Bulaq, 1255 1839.

    $13,571.00
  • Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de, French painter and illustrator (1864-1901). Autograph letter monogrammed "HTL".Paris, ca. 1884/1885.

    $4,885.00
  • Schubert, Franz, composer (1797-1828). [Variations on a French Song, op. 10, D. 624 (fragment)]. Autograph musical …Vienna, September 1818.

    $103,137.00