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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

  • Johannes Paul II., Papst (d. i. Karol Józef Wojtyla, 1920-2005). Ms. Brief mit eigenh. U.Krakau, 10 Jun 1978.

    € 1,200.00

  • [Albumen photograph collage]. Photograph album.Possibly Sweden, ca. 1870s.

    € 4,500.00

  • Bartholdi, Frédéric-Auguste, sculptor (1834-1904). Print with autograph signature.Paris, 1878.

    € 1,800.00

  • Nunes, Pedro. Salacie[n]sis, de crepusculis liber unus, nu[n]c rece[n]s & natus et …Lisbon, January 1542.

    € 75,000.00

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

  • [U.S. Air Force / NASA]. Lunar Astronautical Charts.St. Louis, Missouri, 1962-1967.

    € 15,000.00

  • [Qur'an Juz' - China]. An illuminated Qur'an, Juz' XX, written in Beijing by a Muslim woman.Khanbaliq Cambaluc, Beijing, 10 Nov. 1623 CE = 17 Muharram 1033 H.

    € 125,000.00

  • Keynes, John Maynard, British economist (1883-1946). Typed letter signed ("JMK").London, 28 Aug 1941.

    € 2,500.00