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

  • Payer, Julius Rt. von, Kartograph und Polarforscher (1842-1915). Eigenh. Brief mit U.Wien, Beatrixgasse, 14 Jan 1893.

    $706.00
  • Nizami Ganjavi. Iqbal-nama.Safavid Iran, 1562-1571 CE = 970s H.

    $27,169.00
  • Amiot, Joseph-Marie, French Jesuit missionary, translator, and musicologist at the Imperial Court in Beijing (1722-1788). Autograph document signed.Macau, 27 Aug 1750.

    $4,347.00
  • Harrison, J[ohn] V[ernon]. Mountains and Oil.London, 1944.

    $326.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Katib Chelebi (Haji Khalifa/Mustafa ibn Abdallah). Kitab-i Cihânnümâ. [Jihan-numa, The mirror of the world].Constantinople, 3 July 1732.

    $163,012.00
  • Ferdinand I., röm.-dt. Kaiser (1503-1564), hier noch als Erzherzog. Gewaltbrief mit eigenh. U.Wien, 4 Nov 1526.

    $7,064.00
  • Klimt, Gustav, Maler (1862-1918). Weiblicher Akt mit ausgestrecktem linkem Arm (Allegorie der Oper).Wien, 1883.

    $92,374.00
  • [Dalrymple, Alexander (ed.)]. Pinnel, Richard. Journal of the Jane […] from Banjar to Timor and back again to Banjar, …London, 1781.

    $70,639.00