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

  • Hillary, Sir Edmund, New Zealand mountaineer (1919-2008). Typed letter signed ("E. P. Hillary").Auckland, New Zealand, 19 Jul 1959.

    $910.00
  • [Morocco]. Vues du Maroc.Morocco, ca. 1910.

    $910.00
  • Corliss, George Henry, American engineer and inventor (1817-1888). Autograph letter signed."Evergreens", Newburyport, Mass., 11 Aug 1876.

    $1,606.00
  • 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.

    $1,606.00

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.

    $48,172.00
  • [Mattioli, Pietro Andrea]. Original large-format woodblock of Aquilegia vulgaris (columbine).Prague, ca. 1562.

    $13,381.00
  • La Fontaine, Jean de, French writer (1621-1695). Autograph document signed "De la fontaine".No place, 5 Jan 1660.

    $16,057.00
  • Nieuhof, Johannes. Die Gesantschaft der Ost-Indischen Geselschaft in den Vereinigten Niederländern, …Amsterdam, 1669.

    $90,991.00