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.

    $133,930.00
  • Beatson, Alexander. [Original watercolour painting of Tipu Sultan, mounted in:] A View of the …London, 1800.

    $19,286.00
  • Einstein, Albert, German-born physicist and Nobel laureate (1879-1955). Autograph letter signed ("A. E.").Princeton, New Jersey, 19 Jun 1943.

    $16,072.00
  • Caussin de Perceval, A[rmand] P[ierre]. Essai sur l'histoire des Arabes avant l'islamisme, pendant l'époque de …Paris, 1847.

    $4,821.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Luther, Martin, Theologe und Reformator (1483-1546). Eigenh. Brief mit U. ("Martinus").Veste Coburg, "feria quinta post Equinoctium autumni" = 15. IX. 1530.

    $375,004.00
  • Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, Dichter (1749-1832). Eigenh. Gedichtmanuskript mit U.O. O., Februar 1825.

    $62,144.00
  • [United Arab Emirates]. Photograph of Sheikh Zayed raising the flag of independence at al-Diyafah …Dubai, 2 Dec 1971.

    $37,500.00
  • [Ludwig Salvator]. Cannosa.Prag, 1897.

    $268.00