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.

     8,500.00
  • [Ge'ez]. Two Ge'ez healing scrolls.Ethiopia or Eritrea, 20th century.

     800.00
  • Celan, Paul, Romanian born German-language poet (1920-1970). "Chanson einer Dame im Schatten". Autograph poem signed ("Paul Celan").Paris, August 1949.

     15,000.00
  • Khalidi, Thabet. The Rising Tide of Terror, or Three Years of an "Armistice" in the Holy …Amman, Jordan, February, 1952.

     2,500.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • [Ships Logs] - F. R. Openshaw, Royal Navy midshipman (fl. 1900s). "Log of H. M. Ships Highflyer & Hyacinth". Autograph manuscript logs …Indian Ocean and the Gulf, 1902-1904.

     95,000.00
  • Vesalius, Andreas. De humani corporis fabrica libri septem.Basel, June 1543.

     350,000.00
  • Luther, Martin, Theologe und Reformator (1483-1546). Eigenh. Brief mit U. ("Martinus").Veste Coburg, "feria quinta post Equinoctium autumni" = 15. IX. 1530.

     350,000.00
  • [British Army]. Exercise Gulf.Headquarters Army Emergency Reserve, Longmoor, Hants., 1959.

     2,000.00