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

  • Darwin, Charles, English naturalist (1809-1882). Autograph letter signed.Down, Beckenham, Kent, 13 Jan 1881.

    $49,003.00
  • Qaysari, 'Abd al-Muhsin al-. Sharh al-'Arud al-Andalusi.Medina, Nejd, Ottoman Empire, Sept. 1734 CE = Rabi' al-Thani 1147 H.

    $10,345.00
  • Marx, Karl. Das Kapital. Kritik der politischen Oekonomie [...] Erster Band. [Author's …Hamburg, 1867.

    $1,034,512.00
  • Ostheim, Otto von. [Four photographic panoramas of Jerusalem].Jerusalem, ca. 1860.

    $13,612.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Wagner, Richard, Komponist (1813-1883). Portraitphotographie mit eigenh. Widmung als vollständiges Notenmanuskript …Wien, 1861.

    $32,669.00
  • [Mattioli, Pietro Andrea]. Original large-format woodblock of Aquilegia vulgaris (columbine).Prague, ca. 1562.

    $13,612.00
  • Yuhanna (Yahya) Abu Zakariya ibn Masawaih (Mesue). De re medica, libri tres. Jacobo Sylvio medico interprete.Paris, 1544.

    $30,491.00
  • [Regulations for pearl fishing in Kuwait]. Qanun al-ghawasin fi'l Kuwayt ("Manual of the [pearl] divers in Kuwait").Kuwait City, 1359 H / AD 1940.

    $9,256.00